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

I aimed to use the forms and conventions of a real documentary. In order to do this extensive research was undertaken in order to create a direction for the product. Below are some of the different techniques we have used in our product and how.



- The clip of the Sociologist is important as it represents his authority and status due to how he is dressed smartly and sat at an office desk. The sociology books signify that he knows a lot about Sociology. The posters in the background also emphasise his teaching status and this would appeal to the audience as he is proud of him pupils therefore puts their work on display, this makes him likable.

The narrative which we have followed is single strand which professional documentaries mainly follow. This makes it easier to follow and also adds more of an emphasise on the content.

A code and convention that we used within the editing process was that you never hear the questions for the interview, only the answers. Following this we edited out the questions and put together the different sections to make it sound like continuous speech.

This is an example of cutaways taken from a documentary on the post. The cut aways are short clips which illustrate the dialogue.



This is the voxpop interviews taken from our documentary.



The use of graphics is important as they tell the audience who the person in the shot is and what relevance they have in the documentary. We have used this convention in our documentary. The graphics have been placed on the left, their name at the top then their job status underneath. This is in a block colour so that it is easier to read.

We also had to email the record labels asking for permission to use their video footage and music. These emails are as below in the blog.

Voice over script



We used a male voice over due to the audience feedback favoring a male voice over and also because we felt that it added to the atmosphere as it is deeper adding to the spooky feel that we were building up. This voice over is known as 'Voice of god' as we do not see the narrator, we only hear his voice.



We chose Halloween themed filmed such as Halloween, Hocus Pocus etc for the music and achieve material. We used popular films and music so that the audience would be able to relate to the documentary. Also the use of the song 'Things that go bump in the night' directly relates to the documentary and that is why we used it.