Jamie Osborne

In what ways does my documentary use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

FRAMING TECHNIQUES• My final production conforms to the many conventions of documentary making. For

example in the final documentary we produced we stuck to regular framing techniques where at all possible. Keeping the eye level at 3 quarters up the screen and making sure that the interviewee was looking just off screen at the person conducting the interview, to ensure that the person was not looking directly at the camera.

GRAPHICS• On the interviews we tried to ensure that our graphics conformed to the codes and

conventions of regular documentary making. The name plates always appeared in the lower third of the screen and appeared on the opposite side to the interviewee. The opening sequence also stuck to short montage clips and the title of the documentary was over laid onto this.

MISE EN SCENE• The mise en scene we always tried to keep relevant to the documentary as is the case

with all documentary making. This can be seen when we had a cardboard background interviewing a person who was phobic of cardboard. When it was not possible to have relevant mise en scene, we interviewed that person on the green screen so we were able to impose a relevant image behind that person, such as a dog for a person who feared dogs.

VOICEOVER AND CUTAWAYS• We made sure to have a relevant voiceover in our documentary to keep with the

conventions of documentaries having clear voice overs. We got a male man who had a fairly deep voice in order to ensure it was fitting with the mood of our documentary.

• We ensured that we used cutaways that were relevant to the topic of our documentary, such as heights, dogs, bananas as having irrelevant cutaways does not conform to regular conventions and would not interest the viewer.

(Cutaway we used)