In what ways does your product use develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?

These pictures show how the documentary we produced follows the codes and conventions of documentaries with a screen grab from our documentary and a real documentary found on youtube.

For our documentary we chose to produce a explository documentary and therefore our documentary contains a 'voice of god' narrator which anchors the meaning of the images and juxtaposed images and sounds.

The first two screen grabs are connoting the code and convention of documentaries framing a shot a certain way so that the interviewee is one one side of the screen and so that they are not looking directly at the camera and are looking off screen to the person asking the questions. The first pictire is a sceen grab from our doumentary and the second is a clip from a Westlife documentary found on youtube. These two screen grabs also signify the codes and conventions of documentaries with the mise en scene used to reflect the interviewees job or position in the documentary such as in the clip from the documentary we made the Vicar is dressed like a Vicar and there are religious images in the background and in the Westlife screen grab the mise en scene is that of a dressing room . The link to the youtube video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLcsdDuO9U

The next two images show graphics on screen which is a code and convention of documentaries and signifys to the audience who the person being interviewed is. The first one is a sceen grab from our documentary and the other is a clip from one found on youtube. The graphics are used in documentaries to connote to the audience who the person on screen is and their significance to the documentary. The link to the youtube video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLUGMWrd-AM

This is a copy of all of our voice-over in which we used a 'voice of god' voice-over which is used im many documentaries such as the youtube link below which also uses a 'voice of god' narrator. We chose to use this type of voice over to add a proffesional element to the documentary and to help anchour the meaning of the images.

Music is also important in a documentary as it helps move the documentary on and can help break the documentary up. The first video is a clip from our documentary and the music in the clip helps break the documentary up and keeps the documentary moving. The second video is a clip from a real documentary called 'Naked Nashville' and from 3.32 to 3.50 music is used to break up two interviews.