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Assignment 4 – Analysis of TV Documentary
By Gledis Dedaj
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Conventions of ‘Catfish’
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Convention: background music
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Conventions of ‘lifers’
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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)
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Convention: background music
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Convention: Titles and Credits
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Similarities between the documentaries
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Differences between the Documentaries
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What I have leant!