1. Assignment 17:
Similar Products & Conventions
Topic: ‘Question of your documentary’
Name 1
Name 2
Name 3
Name 4

2. Similar Products (docs I watched)
Individual

3. Similar Products (Docs I watched)
Name 1
NAME OF
DOCUMENTARY
TV or FILM
GENRE
& Mode
HOW
MUCH
WATCHED
WHERE/HOW
WATCHED
DATE
What did you learn from
this documentary that
you could apply to your
documentary?
1.
2.
3.
All must each person should watch and list least 12 TV documentaries
Most should - each person should watch and list at least 14 TV documentaries
Some could - each person should watch and list at least 16+ or more TV documentaries

4. Similar Products (Docs I watched)
Name 2
NAME OF
DOCUMENTARY
TV or FILM
GENRE
& Mode
HOW
MUCH
WATCHED
WHERE/HOW
WATCHED
DATE
What did you learn from
this documentary that
you could apply to your
documentary?
1.
2.
3.
All must each person should watch and list least 12 TV documentaries
Most should - each person should watch and list at least 14 TV documentaries
Some could - each person should watch and list at least 16+ or more TV documentaries

5. Similar Products (Docs I watched)
Name 3
NAME OF
DOCUMENTARY
TV or FILM
GENRE
& Mode
HOW
MUCH
WATCHED
WHERE/HOW
WATCHED
DATE
What did you learn from
this documentary that
you could apply to your
documentary?
1.
2.
3.
All must each person should watch and list least 12 TV documentaries
Most should - each person should watch and list at least 14 TV documentaries
Some could - each person should watch and list at least 16+ or more TV documentaries

6. Similar Products (Docs I watched)
Name 4
NAME OF
DOCUMENTARY
TV or FILM
GENRE
& Mode
HOW
MUCH
WATCHED
WHERE/HOW
WATCHED
DATE
What did you learn from
this documentary that
you could apply to your
documentary?
1.
2.
3.
All must each person should watch and list least 12 TV documentaries
Most should - each person should watch and list at least 14 TV documentaries
Some could - each person should watch and list at least 16+ or more TV documentaries

7. Inspiration from Similar Products
Individual

8. Annotations could be….
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About presenter
Frames/shots/composition
Transitions
Mode theory (how they do it)
Titles/captions
Special effects
Statistics
Use of presenter
Expert or public interviews
Music & sounds
• Anything about construction or conventions!

9. Inspiration from Similar Products
Name 1
Documentary: ‘Food Unwrapped’ (Channel 4, Series 4, 2013)

10. Inspiration from Similar Products
Name 2
Documentary: ‘The Human Swarm’ (Channel 4, 2013)

11. Conventions of Documentaries
Individual & group

12. Conventions
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Conventions of narrative structure
Conventions of topics
Conventions of music/sounds
Conventions of editing
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Use key term sheet! (cutaways, eyeline match, sound bridging etc)
Conventions of shots (or frames/composition)
Conventions of locations
Conventions of mode theory
Conventions of social actors (public & expert interviews)
Conventions of titles/captions
Conventions of presenter
Conventions of narrator
Conventions of statistics
Archival photos/videos etc
Come up with full list
and divide equally
You should have about
4-5 each

13. Conventions of Documentaries
Name 1
Conventions
Example from a documentary
(bullet point or image)
Sound bridging to….

14. Conventions of Documentaries
Name 2
Conventions
Example from a documentary
(bullet point or image)
Sound bridging to….

15. Similar products & their conventions
Individual

16. Individual level choice
Level
description
All must
1 documentary, 2-3 conventions
Most should
2 documentaries, 2-3 conventions
Some could
3 documentaries, 2-4 conventions
Group members cannot do same documentary

17. Who is doing what documentaries?
Name
Documentaries
Name 1
Documentary 1
Documentary 2
Name 2
Documentary 1
Documentary 2
Documentary 3
Name 3
Documentary 1
Documentary 2
Documentary 3
Name 4
Documentary 1

18. Similar products & their conventions
Name 1 – yellow level
Convention
Use
Develop
Challenge
Explanation
(annotated screen grab or just explanation)
Documentary: ‘Food Unwrapped’ (Channel 4, Series 4, 2013)

19. Similar products & their conventions
Name 2 – green level
Convention
Use
Develop
Challenge
Explanation
(annotated screen grab or just explanation)
Documentary: ‘The Human Swarm’ (Channel 4, 2013)

20. Your product (documentary) &
conventions
group

21. Link to evaluation question!
Conventions in our documentary
Conventions
we want to
apply
Where in
documentary?
Use/
Inspirational
develop/
documentary
or
another
challenge? (applied similarly tolearned
documentary - you
from this from other
documentary)
Can use more than 1 slide – don’t cram!
How does this
relate/connect to
mode theory?