This documentary is about the ex Manchester United starts Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Nicky Butt & Ryan Giggs who bought their local club Salford City and have the ambition to take the team up the leagues and redevelop the club. The documenatry focuses on the football club but really it is about the deeper meaning and follows the plauers, club volunteers, fans, managers and board members around their life as well. It is really effective as it shows the bigger perspective of how working at a football club can be.
It has been really useful to watch as it shows key shots of football games, stadiums, training facilities and it will help my develop my understanding in what I want for my documentary.
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![]() Blackfish is a documentary film about SeaWorld in the USA and the orcas they keep for shows to the public. It was a controversial documentary at the time however it showed the inside on the captivity of and the sad story of orca killing one of the keepers during a show. Blackfish conveyed important parts of what a documentary should look like with the following conventions of a documentary product (Its also worth bearing in mind that this was a documentary film - not a television documentary or docu-series like I propose for my final product). Blackfish conveyed the following conventions of a documentary:
Today we pitched our documentary to our class in an 'Apprentice' style way. It was a perfect opportunity to share our ideas and give feedback on each others provisional ideas. Below is the presentation: Documentary Pitch Feedback:
The idea itself is good but it needs more information and a deeper meaning to it. I need to plan more shot types and storyboard exactly what I want. I stated in my presentation that I want to include the football in the title with match footage and the idea was recieved well and people liked it. I need to develop the idea firther however otherwise it isn't going to be a structured documentary. As my idea is starting to shape, football is the likely topic of choice for my documentary, I have therefore started to look at football documentaries. Leicester's Impossible Dream aired in Amy 2016 and was a BBC Documentary on the team in blue incredible title win last year. Gary Lineker talks us through the fairytale season and how Leicester defied the how odds and won the Premier League. It has helped me with how I want to meet the codes and conventions of documentaries as this programme meets a lot of them. Below is the main codes and conventions of documentaries and for each I have analysed if it met them.
![]() The documentary series Louis Theroux Weird Weekends sees Louis go into different lifestyles or topics to see what they are like and give us (the viwer) an insight to something we wouln't normally. Usually the topic has controversial views or is quite negatively portratyed in the media. For example there are episodes on Wrestling, UFO's, Porn, Body-building, Swingers. Louis Theroux Weird Weekends - Series 2 Episode 2 "Swingers". Louis travels to South California and meets a couple who host Swinging parties. The way the show is set up is to mock the people involved but in a sarcastic way so Louis gains knowledge of the subject. There is a sarcastic tone involved which makes the viewers engaged and gain knowledge on a sensitive or frowned about subject. The title sequence from the start is set up to mock as it is very happy and quite witty with Louis walking round the world like he is James Bond in the opening sequence - when clearly Louis isn't as he is quite a skinny, tall and intelligent man. It follows some codes and conventions of doucmentaries such as Voice of God, Interviews (it is mainly based round interviews), Archive footage, Stock footgage, non-diegtic/digetic sound. It has helped with my understanding of my documentary and how I want mine to come across to viewers. |
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