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Assignment 4: Analysis of a TV Documentary Sanel Homer
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Assignment 4: Analysis of a TV Documentary
Sanel Homer
TV documentary ‘Lifers’What it is about and where it is shownCutting edge meets the convicted killers facing a lifetime behind bars at Gartree Prison in Leicestershire, home to Europe's largest population of life-sentenced prisoners. What channel and what time is it onIt is on Channel 4 and starts at 9pm
Who is the target audienceThe target audience would be mostly aimed at youngpeople between 12 and older
Because they would be interested to see what actually goes on Prison and how it looks like and how different they get treated.
Who made it Tim Wardle
Conventions of Documentaries• Use of interviews• Quoted materials• Voice overs commentary• Participants• Supporting photographs• Available natural lighting• Background music • Date,time,titles showing• Archival footage• Real life setting • Hand-held camera• Supportive footage• Archival photos• Presence/personal bia of filmmakers • Style• Establishing shot• Statistic• Ambient Sound• Intervals• Structure• Montage editing
Conventions used in ‘Lifers’
Convention: Interviews
Convention: Interviews
Use: To make it reliable for the audience. Also usinginterviews you will have a more diverse and interesting piece
Convention: Voiceovers
Convention: Voiceovers
Use: To explain to the audience what is happening and while the person is talking you can see what the person is talking about
Convention: Supporting Images
Convention: Supporting Images
Use: A old past photo of them to show that they weren't always bad
Develop: By using the images to support what they are talking about
Convention: Background Music
Convention: Background music
Use: To catch the audience attention to tell them when their something serious or something good is about to occur
Convention: Titles
Convention: Titles
Use: By telling the audience who they are and what they do.
The font use in the title kind of shows that they are serious people and that they have a good job and you can tell that they are kind of serious because the background shows a blurry effect to focus more on the titles to show that the are important people
