Wednesday 9 October 2013
Questionnaire
Documentary Questionnaire
1. What is your gender?
Male Female
2. What is your age?
16-19 20-25 25+
3. What genre(s) of music do you listen to?
Rock Hip-hop/rap Dance/house Alternative/indie Metal Pop Other: _________________
4. How many hours a day on average do you listen to music?
5. Who is your favourite artist/ band?
6. How often do you go to gigs/concerts? What was your favourite?
7. Do you go to any music festivals? Which ones?
8. If so, who is your favourite artist in that genre?
9. How do you find out about new music?
Radio TV Newspapers Magazines Internet Social Media
10. What source do you find it through? (e.g. TV channel, Internet site, magazine name, etc?)
11. Do you listen to unsigned artists?
Yes No
12. Do you support local bands by attending gigs?
Yes No
13. Do you use any of the following music sites or programmes?
Youtube Soundcloud Spotify iTunes
14. How do you download your music?
15. Would you buy music from your preferred artists?
16. Do you watch documentaries?
17. If so, why do you watch them? (e.g. Interest, enjoyment, boredom, etc?)
Thank you for your time and co-operation.
Thank you for your time and co-operation.
Tuesday 8 October 2013
TV Scheduling
TV Scheduling
The schedule for each day can be broken down into clear segments. How could you catagorize these segements?
- Morning
- Daytime
- Primetime
- Evening
Who are the target audience for these segments?
Morning - Parents, People who go to work
Daytime - Older Audience
Primetime - Mature Adults
Evening - The younger adult/ Teens
What would you say are the most popular genres on television?
- Soaps
- Drama's
- Documentaries
- Reality TV
Who is the target audience of each terrestial channel? Give examples of scheduled programmes to support your views.
BBC 1 - Targets everyone as an audience an example of this would be "The One Show"
BBC2 - Older more mature audience as it shows documentaries mainly historical pieces i.e "The 70's"
ITV1 - More Mature Audience as it heavily shows soaps during primetime hours such as "Emmerdale" and "Coronation Street"
Channel 4 - Young Adults/ Teens Shows more relatable programmes like "Educating Yorkshire" & "The Fried Chicken Shop"
Channel 5 - Male Audience showing programmes such as worlds strongest man and the gadget show also actions films such as the punisher or point break
Roughly what percentage of each channel's schedules is taken up with repeats? Why do you think this is?
BBC One 0-5%
BBC Two 10%
ITV1 - 10%
Channel 4 10%
Channel 5 30%
The terrestrial BBC Channels would show less repeats as it is tax funded so they would want to provide the audience new programmes to watch on a regular basis.
Which channels have more imported programmes in their schedules? Why do you think this might be?
Channel 5 are known for importing most of their programmes as other channels are more established and attempt to provide viewers with top US Drama's to try and get an edge over the other terrestrial channels.
What do you understand by the term 'the watershed' and where does this occur in the schedules?
The watershed is the time of the evening (9pm) where swearing and matured themed programmes can be shown with no legal repercussion.
Types of Documentary
Types of documentary
Participatory Documentary - is where the documentary maker appears heavily throughout the filming often posing questions to the interview subject in frame, sharing and discussing their experiences of this. Participatory documentary is something the likes of Louis Theroux use heavily when creating their documentaries.
Fully Narrated Documentaries Fully narrated documentaries is where an offscreen voice is used to link the various pieces of footage or interviews. This is often called the "Voice of God" It's often used to provide a sense of authority, an example of documentaries that use the fully narrated style are loose change - 9/11
Fly on the wall Fly on the wall is a covert form of documentary making, where the camera's are either hidden or a camera crew films from a far away angle trying to maintain the realism of normal life. Camera's can be rigged up with no real need for a cameracrew to work and maintain them.
Mixed - A mixed documentary is where multiple documentary styles are used in the one documentary.
Self Reflexive Documentary - Self reflexive documentatries are where the narrator or the lead talk directly to the camera acknowledging it's presence, Participatory documentary styles are involved in the documentary type.
Docudrama - Docudramas are reconstructions which depict or recreate a historical event an example of a docudrama would be Crimewatch
Docusoaps - Docusoaps follow characters about in real life situations, are often called Mockumentaries as the situations can be constructed for TV purposes. Examples of a docusoap would be; Dog the Bounty Hunter or Nothing to Declare
Fully Narrated Documentaries Fully narrated documentaries is where an offscreen voice is used to link the various pieces of footage or interviews. This is often called the "Voice of God" It's often used to provide a sense of authority, an example of documentaries that use the fully narrated style are loose change - 9/11
Fly on the wall Fly on the wall is a covert form of documentary making, where the camera's are either hidden or a camera crew films from a far away angle trying to maintain the realism of normal life. Camera's can be rigged up with no real need for a cameracrew to work and maintain them.
Mixed - A mixed documentary is where multiple documentary styles are used in the one documentary.
Self Reflexive Documentary - Self reflexive documentatries are where the narrator or the lead talk directly to the camera acknowledging it's presence, Participatory documentary styles are involved in the documentary type.
Docudrama - Docudramas are reconstructions which depict or recreate a historical event an example of a docudrama would be Crimewatch
Docusoaps - Docusoaps follow characters about in real life situations, are often called Mockumentaries as the situations can be constructed for TV purposes. Examples of a docusoap would be; Dog the Bounty Hunter or Nothing to Declare
Documentary Conventions
Documentary Conventions
- Talking Head Shot "Rule of thirds"
- Typically linear in the narrative structure
- Interviews - Vox Pox & Rule of thirds
- Stats & Facts presented by - Narrator, Text, Animation & Graphics
- Reconstructions
- Music and it's relativity to the documentary
- Chromakey
- Archive Material
- Titles
- Narration
- Lighting e.g 3 point lighting
- Transitions
- Title Sequence
- Cut Aways
- Variety of Camera Angles
Monday 7 October 2013
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