client-BBC
The BBC are a massive tv company that have been around for many decades now first founded in 1922 on the 18th of October in London it was founded by john Reith and baron Reith and the government of the united kingdom BBC stands for British Broadcasting Company which makes sense as they heavily broadcast many things on radios and tv. they are highly successful and are one of the worlds biggest broadcasting companies they create a range of certain programs like documentaries, movies and tv shows they also have BBC radio which broadcasts many music across the UK there net income is £227 million. the BBC are also very know for broadcasting sports this includes almost every sport in the world but most of all mainly football as that gets the views up they also get many good documentaries such as planet earth and blue planet with David Attenborough also louis Theroux is very popular in the BBC industry as for his very good investing documentaries he does.
The BBC targeted audience view is close to 500 million which they wanted by the end of 2022 which the BBC is on track to hit it on its 100th anniversary. I have watched many BBC documentaries most of them being louis Theroux for example him going to neo Nazis people and interviewing them and going to neo Nazi rally's also louis Theroux documentary about crystal meth and following the addict's of meth also louis interviewing jimmy Savile before the truth came out about who he really was. I have also watched blue planet and planet earth documentaries I have watched many episodes of that and I think it is very interesting that's what an educational documentary is and its similar with louis Theroux documentary's as well. BBC also to many kids tv shows back in the 2000s they had Cbeebies which is a free to air public broadcast owned and operated by the BBC The BBC are also very on producing news that's why they have BBC news which is on almost everyday.
The BBC also have BBC three which is a free to broadcast television channel owned by the BBC it was first launched on 9th February 2003 it featured programs targeted for 16-34 years old. BBC do a range of genres like dramas, thrillers and comedies and so much more they also do educational documentary's like how drugs work and how sex works. BBC generates its income through licensing fee and the public pay it and there is rules and restrictions that they apply with and they use PSB remit. The BBC is meant to target specialist audience and they don't allow certain advertisements like Coca-Cola and they say you cant have sponsorship bumpers. BBC three schedule is it starts at 7pm and ends at 4am and at 9pm the watershed happens which is other programs that a for a more adult age. ofcom is a government agency that check the content and the watershed ends at 5am.
Documentary Types
Poetic documentaries
First seen in the 1920s poetic documentary's focus on the experiences, images, and showing the audience the world through different eyes. abstract and loose with narrative, the poetic sub-genre can be very unconventional and experimental in form and content the goal is to create a feeling rather a truth.
example of poetic documentary
This is a good example of a poetic documentary yes it may be showing the truth but this documentary definitely try's to make the audience feel emotional and it is very moving as it shows you the brutality of the first world war and it makes such a good documentary as it puts it in color giving us a better perspective how it exactly looked like if we were there in the first world war.
Trailer
https://youtu.be/IrabKK9Bhds
Expository documentaries
The expository documentary style is probably close to what people consider a documentary is. This type of documentary is trying to aim to inform or persuade often through omnipresent "voice of god" narration devoid of ambiguous or poetic rhetoric. This type of documentary is best for the people who are just looking for a more straightforward documentary and a more direct so it is easy to understand it is the best way to share a message or information so this is one of the best types for that reason.
example of expository documentary
This is a solid example of a expository documentary as it has the voice of god technique this is what an expository documentary is as it is aiming to inform and persuade and that is what David Attenborough is doing he is the voice of god he tells us everything and has the best voice for it and its shots are magnificent they get the best shots in the world of our nature and shows in great detail the animals on our planet that's why this is considered the best documentary of all time and is up there as having a 9.4 ratting on IMDB putting it up as the best documentary alongside planet earth 2 and blue planet. And it deserves it because it teaches us many things about how nature works while showing amazing shots of many certain animals and it is important to have David Attenborough teach us how these animals survive and how they adapt doing this while having the shots at the same time is called mixing and it is very important in most documentary's
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observational documentaries
This type of documentary aims to observe the world around them it first originated in the 1960s alongside advances in portable film equipment, the cinema verite-style is much less pointed than the expository approach. This type of documentary attempts to give a voice on all sides of an issue by offering audience access to some of the subjects most important and often private moments this style has been very influential over the years.
example of observational documentary
Trailer
This is a good example of a observational documentary as it shows these groups of boys school life in Belfast and its non interrupted and that's why this is observational it is a very good documentary showing these boys life. It also shows the visionary headmaster tries to encourage and educate the children. He tries to improve their lives and challenge their thinking through lessons in philosophy, mythology and history.
participatory documentaries
This type of documentary includes the filmmaker in the narrative. This inclusion can be as minor as a filmmaker using their voice to say their subjects with questions or cues from behind the camera-or as major as a filmmaker directly influencing the action of the narrative. in example the documentary about Michael Moore is directly influencing how his subjects react to his questions and, therefore, influencing the overall narrative of the film in a way i would label as participatory. But Michael Moore is a particularly complicated filmmaker. There`s some debate in the documentary community as to just how much filmmaker participation it takes to earn a documentary the label of "participatory." Some argue that, due to their very nature, all documentaries are participatory. Regardless, this style might be one of the most natural for those starting off.
Reflexive documentaries
These types of documentary's are very similar to participatory documentary's as they often include the filmmaker within the film but unlike participatory, most creators of reflexive documentaries make attempt to explore an outside subject. Rather they focus solely on themselves and the act of making the film. a good example of this is the style 1929 silent documentary man with a movie camera by soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov.
it`s a classic showcase of the creative-and quite challenging-images a true reflexive documentary can create.
performative documentaries
Performative documentaries are an experimental combination of styles used to stress subject experience and share an emotional response with the world. They often connect and juxtapose personal accounts with larger political or historical issues. sometimes it has been called the Michael Moore-style as he often uses his own personal stories as a way to construct social truths without having to argue.
codes and conventions
Archival footage and photographs
Archival materials include old photographs, newsreels footage, and even shots from fiction films. For example, The atomic café makes exclusive use of archival footage from the 1940s and 1950s to spoof Americas cold war fear of an atomic bomb, and feed culls footage from the 1992 primaries to show presidential hopefuls being anything but presidential. The civil war employs and endless number of still photographs.
Jiggly camera
A wobbly camera is often attributed to documentary. As cameras became more portable and more affordable, filmmakers did more on-location shooting, and keeping the camera steady was somewhat difficult when it came to following the action. Steadicam, a camera stabilizing system, aids in correcting what some perceive as a problem. The fiction film The Blaire Witch Project makes use of the jiggly camera as a means of reinforcing its documentary-like style.
Talking Heads
Talking heads are people interviewed to explain or comment on the texts subject. These people usually are shown in their offices (sometimes with a wall of books behind them) or in their homes. For example Hearts and minds includes interviews with both American and Vietnamese people to offer their perspectives on the war. Vernon, Florida also makes use of an interesting selection of talking heads.
Voiceover Narration
voiceover narration occurs when a voice is heard on the soundtrack without a matching source in the image. in other words we hear the voice speak but we cannot see the speaker utter the words. The voice often explains or comments on the visuals. Early documentary made extensive use of this convention including pare Lorentz when the plow Broke the plains and the River. A more contemporary example is Ansel Adams.
Re-enactments
A re-enactment stages real events that already have occurred. Sometimes they include the people who experienced the events originally, but more often they incorporate actors playing parts. The thin blue line makes extensive use of this convention to assist in making its argument. Most documentary filmmakers shoot events where they actually occur.
Real People
For the most part, the people we see in a documentary are real people. we can assume that if we went to flint, Michigan, we may meet the "pets or meat" lady from roger and me. or if we went to Texas, we may meet the people participating in the content to win a new truck in hands on a hard body
The Northern voices
the northern voices are part of the BBC and they are a center for young children with hearing loss and their families,, enables students to communicate through the use of listening and spoken language. Through early, individualized intervention and experience we seek to provide all of our students with the skills they need to be fully integrated into mainstream school settings as early as possible. Daily practice with listening and spoken languages provides children with self-confidences and independence to open doors for communication. Northern voices was founded in 1999 by a group of parents who wanted to give their deaf and hard-of hearing children a chance to talk. An innovative curriculum developed in the late 1970s and 1980s by jean Moog, an internationally recognized leader in deaf education, is the key to our successful program. The award-winning curriculum, developed by Moog while principal at Central institute for the Deaf in St. Louis has twice been recognized for excellence by the U.S. Department of education. No other program for children who are deaf and hard of hearing has ever received this award. It was a six-month speaker training program and they don't just help children who are deaf they help all types of children with disabilities.
initial ideas
The type of documentary that I think I'm interested in using is expository I'm draw to use this one because I would like to make a documentary that teaches the audience something like a blue planet type of style but not exactly talking about animals. I still have not decided what the documentary is going to be about but from analyzing the BBC and its documentaries I feel like using a expository style and using the voice of god technique would be a good way to start but I do have the idea in maybe doing a gaming documentary as there isn't that much documentaries about that which makes it unique I do have a lot of experience in gaming as I play a lot of games and I think that is a big part in our generation and our culture kids today are used to growing up in technology so many young boys are brought up maybe always on the Xbox or PlayStation depending what console you use so it is easy as if you know the topic its much easy to make a documentary about that topic. And I would structure it with having a voiceover while I have some shots of different games or people playing them it could be an evolution of gaming but it has been done before but it is a good idea. It could be started in the 80s this would show the first start of video games such as Pac man and how it was the first big hit in gaming making it the first game to win the first ever game of the year award and the documentary would slowly go through all the years. Its also important to use codes and conventions in your documentary most documentaries will always use talking heads this is almost in every documentaries but not all but it is a key thing as interviews need to be done to show the viewers the facts of the documentary but this will be hard to do for a project as you have no one to interview. reactants are also important having shots that look like are in the time to create the effect that its real but has just been recreated putting this over archival footage is a good way to mix it together to make the audience feel like its real or maybe by showing reactants make the audience have a clear picture and understand what's going on in the documentary.
It is a challenge to make a documentary by yourself but the best type of documentary to do it by yourself will probably be the observational documentary and all your doing is observing at the world around you kind of like Louis Theroux he observes the world around him yes he may have people to interview and talk to but he still is the the sole man in his documentary he is the only person who drives the documentary forward but he obviously doesn't operate the camera himself he has his crew but he is the one who interviews. And that are the two types of documentary that I think is best to do either teaching the audience something or talking about the world they are both very similar to each other but I like the thought of teaching the audience something which is good as it makes the audience watch it as they want to learn something that's the whole reason people watch documentaries. Its also important that you have a good intro to the documentary this could be done by showing previews of what's going to be shown in the documentary this would be edited fast with some dramatic music over it its important to get the audience invested and excited straight when the documentary starts.
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