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Assignment 4 – Analysis of TV Documentary
By Gledis Dedaj
The Documentaries I Will Be Comparing…
Catfish:Air Time/Date: • Saturday - 01 January 2011 Form of Release: • UK - TV Channel- Channel 4What its about: • Young filmmakers document their
colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
Production Companies: • Supermarché & Hit The Ground
Running FilmsDistributors: • Alliance Films (2010) (Canada)
(theatrical)• Universal Pictures (2010) (USA)
(theatrical)• Momentum Pictures (2010) (UK) (all
media)• Rogue (2010) (USA) (all media)Directors: Henry Joost and Ariel
Schulman
Lifers:
Air Time/Date: • Monday- 25 Jun 2012 Form of Release: • UK - TV Channel- Channel 4What its about: • A unique insight into the lives of
offenders facing a lifetime in prison.
Production Companies: • Century FilmsDistributors: • N/ADirector: • Tim Wardle
Target Audience!
• The target audience for 'Catfish' are people who uses media like Facebook, MySpace, twitter or any other kind of social networking site.
• In today's society this presents quite a broad target audience as most people especially in the Western parts of the world use some form of social networking site.
• With that said, it is reasonable to assume that perhaps the documentary would be directed at a more younger audience due to the fact that social networking is mostly popular amongst them.
• Its is teenagers that run a higher risk with such sites as they are typically deemed as naïve towards the dangers of the internet.
Catfish
Target Audience!
Lifers
• Due to the particular topic being explored in the documentary (life sentences) the target audience appears quite wide.
• However stereotypically within today's society those in prison are normally associated with lower or working class families.
• This is due to the environment that such people are surrounded with that lead them to a life of crime. (Poor conditions)
• Lower class families are typically deemed as uneducated thus they are more prone to ending up in prison.
Conventions of Documentaries
Conventions!
Voiceovers
Establishing Shots
Montage Footage
Handheld Footage
Quoted Material Presenters
(formal/informal)
Real Life Setting
Statistics
Interviews
Score Music
Archival Footage/Photograp
hs
Titles and Credits
Conventions of ‘Catfish’
Convention: Handheld Footage
Use: The whole documentary was
handheld footage and was filmed by Ariel
Schulman
Develop: This develops the convention of ‘handheld footage’
because documentaries are typically a mix of handheld and
steady filming.
Convention: Titles and Credits
Use: This was used and not
developed because they
placed the title/credits in the appropriate times and places in the
shots
Convention: Interviews
Use: They used this convention
Her eye line is directed to the side of the camera
therefore establishing that she is being interview by someone behind the shot.
This is a typical method of interviewing, therefore the
convention was not developed or challenged.
Convention: supporting images
Develop: They developed this convention slightly due to the fact that the only proof they
had of the ‘Megan’ person was photographs from ‘Facebook’.
She was only shown through images.
Convention: background music
Conventions of ‘lifers’
Convention: supporting images
Use: This was used, because the images supported what was being said about the
person.
(He was once a normal young boy)
Convention: background music
Convention: Titles and Credits
Similarities between the documentaries
Differences between the Documentaries
What I have leant!