Expository : Developed by the American documentary theorist Bill Nicholas. Expository documentarys are where the film maker is the 'voice of god'. The narrator/filmaker has the authoritative role and adresses the audience directly.The images match the voiceover and also link in with the video clips. Expository documentarys can include interviews to support the argument it presents. It has a conventional narrative structure (Begging, middle and end). Its very didactic (gives lots of information) and the most common of all.
Observational : Developed by the American documentary theorist Bill Nicholas. The film maker does not get involved in the production (fly on the wall style). The camera work can be different like having very long shots. They tend to avoide voice overs, when there is one its non judgmental. A good example of observational documentarys is wildlife programmes (slice of life).
Interactive : Develpoed by the American documentary theorist Bill Nicholas.Was discovered when mobile filming equipment was made,makes the film makers aspect visable. Finds a way of directly enngaging with individuals without interviews. Helps film makers account for past events by being able to use old footage within their documentary. Includes intrusive questions and opinions. The filmmaker can either been seen or not seen. Has a logical progression throughout the documentary (begining, middle and end). In the end the audience is left to decide their own conclusion.
Performative : Developed by American documentary theorist Bill Nicholas. Used in the hollywood movies, is the more glamorised of documentarys. Film maker stars in the movie. Its about the film makers subjective opinions and views. The film makers aim is to get the audience to feel and experience what they see (evoative-makes you have emotion) its a very stylised mode. It mix's a variety of different modes to link images and ideas together.The film maker also wants to get across how theyre knoledge helps gain a wider knowlege in socciety.
Reflexive : Where the director or the narrator reports to the camera as though it were a diary giving their thoughts, feelings and experiences about what they have researched.
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Does social networking break down or develop communities.
Purpose
The purpose of our question is to try and uncover the answer to wether or not social networking is helping build or break down society our aim is to show young people how social networking isn't always a benefit.
The purpose of our question is to try and uncover the answer to wether or not social networking is helping build or break down society our aim is to show young people how social networking isn't always a benefit.
Our target audience
Our target audience will be people around about our age so we can get an insight on the younger peoples views and see how they are effected by these issues also it will be easy as we are in a school to gather people for our interviews. We also want to raise awareness among other children of our age.
Proposal
We as a group came up with a few ideas?.
Proposal
We as a group came up with a few ideas?.
- Does social networking effect our social skills?.
- Do social networks make it easy for cyber bullies?.
- Should social networks allow people to join with out varified age?.
- Does social networking break down or develop communities?.
we decided on Does social networking break down or develop communities? because we thought that it would raise a few issues that people are interested in not only that but we thought we could be a bit different and maybe do an interactive documentary.
PROS
- Would easily research the arab spring easily.
- Would easily research the London riots.
- Gives us the chance to do an interactive documentary.
- Facebook, Twitter, BBM and lots of other social networks directly link to our topic.
- Would be easy to get interviews with people who use Facebook almost everyone has one.
- Would create alot of publicity as they are both hot subjects.
CONS
- Might be hard to get permission to use video clips off other websites.
- Would be hard to interview people who were possibly involved in the London riots because people could lie.
- Some people might not know what the arab spring is so we would have to use time quickly explaining.
- We are going to make a twitter account to record some results this will really backup some of our ideas.
primary research needed
- interview people.
- surveys to get quantitive results.
- finding statistical data.
- books
We would gather a few people and ask them questions about what they think about how they think communities are joined together and how they recognise this then we would ask them if they think that social networking effects the togetherness of the communities.
We would send out some surveys asking people around the school questions about social networking.
we can very easily find out and put together statistics off the internet about how many people use social networking and how many people like or dislike social networking.
We would pick out certain bits of evidence from books then put them together to form
Secondary research
- News paper articles
- internet
- The news on tv
- what experts have said
Camera angles and shots
Establishing shot: Sets up or 'establishes the setting of a scene it is typically at the beginning of a movie or scene.
Close up: Tightly frames frames a person or object to show detail or emotion.
Medium shot: shot from the waist or knees up from a medium distance generally shows body language and less specific detail.
Long shot: shows the entire figure or object often in its relation to its surroundings typically filmed far away from the object.
Tracking shot: Follows the action at a constant distance it keeps the subject on screen at all times.
Aerial shot: shows the entire image from a high position sometimes referred as a birds eye view shot.
Dolly shot: The camera is placed on a dolly and moves at a constant rate. It does not necessarily follow the action.
Handheld shot: Filmed from the camera mans own hands therefore, it is a little shaky can be used to show the subjects perspective or feeling.
Zoom shot: either zooms in to isolate the subject or zoom out to show it in a wider context.
Swish pan: moves the camera from one subject to another very quickly.
High angle: The camera is located above the subject and films down on to it sometimes showed to show which characters more powerful.
Reverse angle: Switches between the two or more subjects in a dialogue scene shot from the other side of a subject.
Low angle: Typically shot from the knees up can also show the power of a character in a conversation.
Arc shot: Camera moves around the object in a circular motion in an order to show the image from more angles.
Match out: Two shots that have some relationship are joined together as though in the same scene.
point of view shot: The camera shows the scene from the characters perspective you see through the characters eyes.
Head on shot: When the action comes straight to the camera.
Close up: Tightly frames frames a person or object to show detail or emotion.
Medium shot: shot from the waist or knees up from a medium distance generally shows body language and less specific detail.
Long shot: shows the entire figure or object often in its relation to its surroundings typically filmed far away from the object.
Tracking shot: Follows the action at a constant distance it keeps the subject on screen at all times.
Aerial shot: shows the entire image from a high position sometimes referred as a birds eye view shot.
Dolly shot: The camera is placed on a dolly and moves at a constant rate. It does not necessarily follow the action.
Handheld shot: Filmed from the camera mans own hands therefore, it is a little shaky can be used to show the subjects perspective or feeling.
Zoom shot: either zooms in to isolate the subject or zoom out to show it in a wider context.
Swish pan: moves the camera from one subject to another very quickly.
High angle: The camera is located above the subject and films down on to it sometimes showed to show which characters more powerful.
Reverse angle: Switches between the two or more subjects in a dialogue scene shot from the other side of a subject.
Low angle: Typically shot from the knees up can also show the power of a character in a conversation.
Arc shot: Camera moves around the object in a circular motion in an order to show the image from more angles.
Match out: Two shots that have some relationship are joined together as though in the same scene.
point of view shot: The camera shows the scene from the characters perspective you see through the characters eyes.
Head on shot: When the action comes straight to the camera.
Primary and Secondary research
Primary
- We are going to send out a survey to around about 20 people some of the questions we are going to include is going to be:
- What do you think about social networking
- Does the younger generation rely on social networking too much?
- Does social networking have a big impact on your life?
- What are you on most?
My space Facebook
Twitter Msn
One of the other things that we would like to include in our documentary for primary research is getting a small group of people and letting them have an open discussion about some of the issues raised by our documentary.
Wed like to conduct an experiment to prove some of our points myself, Heritier and Waqas will go a whole 3 days without any social networking at all everyday we will do either a report on blogger or a recording and at the end we will see how each of our social statuses have changed and do an evaluation.
Secondary
Statistics: One thrid of the worlds population who uses the internet was influenced by sociL networking.
almost 20% of the world uses facebook.
We are also gonna use some of the London riot articles and how bbm helped the riots
we would also have a few bits and pieces taken out from the articles about the arab spring and all of the other political goings on that facebook has aided.
List's of research and photographs required
- BBC news
- Newspaper
- Books
- Other documentaries
- Books from the library
interviews
- People from around the community
- People from out side of the community
- People who have a facebook
Were going to have 20 copies printed and sent out.
Our images are going to come up in a flash and be negative there will be pictures of facebook layouts stressed and sad people on computers and happy people in community.
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