Theorist Bill Nichols identifies five types of modes of documentary:
Expository, Observational, Participatory, performative and reflexive.
Research these six types and find a link to an extract for each one.
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Andrew Goodwin-Music Video Theory
Andrew Goodwin-Music Video Theory
1.Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band).
2.There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
3.There is a relationship between music and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
4.The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).
5.There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
6.There is often intertextual reference (to films, TV programmes, other music videos etc).
Use this structure to deconstruct a music video of a similar genre to the song you have chosen.
1.Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band).
2.There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
3.There is a relationship between music and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
4.The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).
5.There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
6.There is often intertextual reference (to films, TV programmes, other music videos etc).
Use this structure to deconstruct a music video of a similar genre to the song you have chosen.
Monday, 4 July 2016
An extract from an original documentary TV programme
7. An extract from an original documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:
• a radio trailer for the documentary;
• a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;
• a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.
All research and planning should be documented on your blog. Ensure you make use of the interactive elements of a blog and include lots of embedded links in a variety of formats.
Be mindful of the evaluation questions.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Remember you must research both your main task and your ancillary tasks.
Research Tasks Completed and uploaded to blog
Brief History of the format and genre
Documentary Film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. Knowledge comes in different ways through our five senses. Hearing, watching, touching, smelling and tasting are the only doorways to the outer world. The wise men say that if something is not truly experienced with all our five senses, the experience will be partial, not total. Therefore in a way almost all our gained knowledge through life is partial. And maybe they are right.
If we follow that analogy, gaining knowledge through several senses simultaneously is better than through just one. So, educating through watching educational videos, in this case documentaries, is really a total different experience than educating only on books.
When watching any documentary use the following points to consider the
Representation
or
Re-presentation
of the content
Checklist
1. INTERVIEWS
With subject(s) of film Yes No
Who?
With experts Yes No
Who (or what profession)?
2. STORYTELLING TECHNIQUES
Stock, historical, or archival footage Yes No
Of what?
Re-enactment Yes No
Of what?
Narrator / voice-over Yes No
Who is telling the story?
Scripted dialogue Yes No
Who wrote the lines, i.e., who was really speaking?
Conversational dialogue Yes No
Who was speaking?
3. INFORMATION SOURCES
Were there attempts to persuade? Yes No
If so, what did the filmmaker(s) want viewers to think?
Were factual claims made? Yes No
Could you tell what the sources for Yes No
the factual claims were?
Nanook of the North
Modern documentaries[edit]
Box office analysts have noted that this film genre has become increasingly successful in theatrical release with films such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Super Size Me, Food, Inc., Earth, March of the Penguins, Religulous, and An Inconvenient Truth among the most prominent examples. Compared to dramatic narrative films, documentaries typically have far lower budgets which makes them attractive to film companies because even a limited theatrical release can be highly profitable.
The nature of documentary films has expanded in the past 20 years from the cinema verité style introduced in the 1960s in which the use of portable camera and sound equipment allowed an intimate relationship between filmmaker and subject. The line blurs between documentary and narrative and some works are very personal, such as the late Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied (1989) and Black Is...Black Ain't (1995), which mix expressive, poetic, and rhetorical elements and stresses subjectivities rather than historical materials.[17]
Historical documentaries, such as the landmark 14-hour Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1986 – Part 1 and 1989 – Part 2) by Henry Hampton, Four Little Girls (1997) by Spike Lee, and The Civil War by Ken Burns, UNESCO awarded independent film on slavery 500 Years Later, expressed not only a distinctive voice but also a perspective and point of views. Some films such as The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris incorporated stylized re-enactments, and Michael Moore's Roger & Me placed far more interpretive control with the director. The commercial success of these documentaries may derive from this narrative shift in the documentary form, leading some critics to question whether such films can truly be called documentaries; critics sometimes refer to these works as "mondo films" or "docu-ganda."[18] However, directorial manipulation of documentary subjects has been noted since the work of Flaherty, and may be endemic to the form due to problematic ontological foundations.
Although documentaries are financially more viable with the increasing popularity of the genre and the advent of the DVD, funding for documentary film production remains elusive. Within the past decade the largest exhibition opportunities have emerged from within the broadcast market, making filmmakers beholden to the tastes and influences of the broadcasters who have become their largest funding source.[19]
Modern documentaries have some overlap with television forms, with the development of "reality television" that occasionally verges on the documentary but more often veers to the fictional or staged. The making-of documentary shows how a movie or a computer game was produced. Usually made for promotional purposes, it is closer to an advertisement than a classic documentary.
Modern lightweight digital video cameras and computer-based editing have greatly aided documentary makers, as has the dramatic drop in equipment prices. The first film to take full advantage of this change was Martin Kunert and Eric Manes' Voices of Iraq, where 150 DV cameras were sent to Iraq during the war and passed out to Iraqis to record themselves
read more here
Top Ten Documentaries
Genre theory
Textual Analysis of forms and conventions
Denotation and connotation of Language & Representation (but with brief mention of specific institution and audience)
At least three detailed examples of main task and ancillary.
Institutional structure- who produces/finances/exhibits?
Audience patterns- who are the audiences for these products in general and specifically (linked to textual analysis).
How are they consumed?
Summary of your research- bullet points of which forms and conventions you will appropriate/challenge
Planning Tasks
Mood board (for music video-lyric annotation)
Storyboards
Scripts
Flatplans
Focus group
Audience Profile
Call sheets
Rushes
Editing process
SFX/VFX
• a radio trailer for the documentary;
• a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;
• a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.
All research and planning should be documented on your blog. Ensure you make use of the interactive elements of a blog and include lots of embedded links in a variety of formats.
Be mindful of the evaluation questions.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Remember you must research both your main task and your ancillary tasks.
Research Tasks Completed and uploaded to blog
Brief History of the format and genre
Documentary Film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. Knowledge comes in different ways through our five senses. Hearing, watching, touching, smelling and tasting are the only doorways to the outer world. The wise men say that if something is not truly experienced with all our five senses, the experience will be partial, not total. Therefore in a way almost all our gained knowledge through life is partial. And maybe they are right.
If we follow that analogy, gaining knowledge through several senses simultaneously is better than through just one. So, educating through watching educational videos, in this case documentaries, is really a total different experience than educating only on books.
When watching any documentary use the following points to consider the
Representation
or
Re-presentation
of the content
Checklist
1. INTERVIEWS
With subject(s) of film Yes No
Who?
With experts Yes No
Who (or what profession)?
2. STORYTELLING TECHNIQUES
Stock, historical, or archival footage Yes No
Of what?
Re-enactment Yes No
Of what?
Narrator / voice-over Yes No
Who is telling the story?
Scripted dialogue Yes No
Who wrote the lines, i.e., who was really speaking?
Conversational dialogue Yes No
Who was speaking?
3. INFORMATION SOURCES
Were there attempts to persuade? Yes No
If so, what did the filmmaker(s) want viewers to think?
Were factual claims made? Yes No
Could you tell what the sources for Yes No
the factual claims were?
Nanook of the North
Modern documentaries[edit]
Box office analysts have noted that this film genre has become increasingly successful in theatrical release with films such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Super Size Me, Food, Inc., Earth, March of the Penguins, Religulous, and An Inconvenient Truth among the most prominent examples. Compared to dramatic narrative films, documentaries typically have far lower budgets which makes them attractive to film companies because even a limited theatrical release can be highly profitable.
The nature of documentary films has expanded in the past 20 years from the cinema verité style introduced in the 1960s in which the use of portable camera and sound equipment allowed an intimate relationship between filmmaker and subject. The line blurs between documentary and narrative and some works are very personal, such as the late Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied (1989) and Black Is...Black Ain't (1995), which mix expressive, poetic, and rhetorical elements and stresses subjectivities rather than historical materials.[17]
Historical documentaries, such as the landmark 14-hour Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1986 – Part 1 and 1989 – Part 2) by Henry Hampton, Four Little Girls (1997) by Spike Lee, and The Civil War by Ken Burns, UNESCO awarded independent film on slavery 500 Years Later, expressed not only a distinctive voice but also a perspective and point of views. Some films such as The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris incorporated stylized re-enactments, and Michael Moore's Roger & Me placed far more interpretive control with the director. The commercial success of these documentaries may derive from this narrative shift in the documentary form, leading some critics to question whether such films can truly be called documentaries; critics sometimes refer to these works as "mondo films" or "docu-ganda."[18] However, directorial manipulation of documentary subjects has been noted since the work of Flaherty, and may be endemic to the form due to problematic ontological foundations.
Although documentaries are financially more viable with the increasing popularity of the genre and the advent of the DVD, funding for documentary film production remains elusive. Within the past decade the largest exhibition opportunities have emerged from within the broadcast market, making filmmakers beholden to the tastes and influences of the broadcasters who have become their largest funding source.[19]
Modern documentaries have some overlap with television forms, with the development of "reality television" that occasionally verges on the documentary but more often veers to the fictional or staged. The making-of documentary shows how a movie or a computer game was produced. Usually made for promotional purposes, it is closer to an advertisement than a classic documentary.
Modern lightweight digital video cameras and computer-based editing have greatly aided documentary makers, as has the dramatic drop in equipment prices. The first film to take full advantage of this change was Martin Kunert and Eric Manes' Voices of Iraq, where 150 DV cameras were sent to Iraq during the war and passed out to Iraqis to record themselves
read more here
Top Ten Documentaries
Genre theory
Textual Analysis of forms and conventions
Denotation and connotation of Language & Representation (but with brief mention of specific institution and audience)
At least three detailed examples of main task and ancillary.
Institutional structure- who produces/finances/exhibits?
Audience patterns- who are the audiences for these products in general and specifically (linked to textual analysis).
How are they consumed?
Summary of your research- bullet points of which forms and conventions you will appropriate/challenge
Planning Tasks
Mood board (for music video-lyric annotation)
Storyboards
Scripts
Flatplans
Focus group
Audience Profile
Call sheets
Rushes
Editing process
SFX/VFX
Promotion Package for an album
1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:
• a website homepage for the band;
• a digipak for the album’s release;
• a magazine advertisement for the digipak.
Remember you are considering this as a whole package.
Research and Planning tasks
Brief History of the format and genre
Read and take notes on this during the lesson. Write up on your blog finding your own examples to support bullet points.
Powerpoint here
Genre theory (Andrew Goodwin for MV)
Textual Analysis of forms and conventions
Denotation and connotation of Language & Representation (but with brief mention of specific institution and audience)
Screen shot music videos, in addition to identifying the usual language and representation aspects. apply Goodwins theory and point out the relationship between the music/visuals/lyrics.
Are they amplifying, illustrating or contradicting?
At least three detailed examples of main task and ancillary.
Consider these as a brand- how is synergy used in the construct?
Consider that artiste/band of the song you are going to use for your video. Create a factfile about them and their career and representation.
Consider the marketing of them as a brand.
Institutional structure- who produces/finances/exhibits?
Audience patterns/theory-
who are the audiences for music in general and specifically (linked to textual analysis).
How are they consumed?
Summary of your research- bullet points of which forms and conventions you will appropriate/challenge
Planning Tasks
Mood board- consider creating a 'mash up' of your favourite music videos- just point an iphone at the screen and edit them.
Lyric annotation- take the lyrics of your song and annotate them- as you would a poem.
Storyboards
Scripts
Flatplans
Focus group- four individuals who are in your intended demographic that you know and can ask for feedback.
Audience Profile - this is your ideal audience, primary, secondary and tertiary.
Call sheets
Rushes
Editing process
SFX/VFX
• a website homepage for the band;
• a digipak for the album’s release;
• a magazine advertisement for the digipak.
Remember you are considering this as a whole package.
Research and Planning tasks
Brief History of the format and genre
Read and take notes on this during the lesson. Write up on your blog finding your own examples to support bullet points.
Powerpoint here
Genre theory (Andrew Goodwin for MV)
Textual Analysis of forms and conventions
Denotation and connotation of Language & Representation (but with brief mention of specific institution and audience)
Screen shot music videos, in addition to identifying the usual language and representation aspects. apply Goodwins theory and point out the relationship between the music/visuals/lyrics.
Are they amplifying, illustrating or contradicting?
At least three detailed examples of main task and ancillary.
Consider these as a brand- how is synergy used in the construct?
Consider that artiste/band of the song you are going to use for your video. Create a factfile about them and their career and representation.
Consider the marketing of them as a brand.
Institutional structure- who produces/finances/exhibits?
Audience patterns/theory-
who are the audiences for music in general and specifically (linked to textual analysis).
How are they consumed?
Summary of your research- bullet points of which forms and conventions you will appropriate/challenge
Planning Tasks
Mood board- consider creating a 'mash up' of your favourite music videos- just point an iphone at the screen and edit them.
Lyric annotation- take the lyrics of your song and annotate them- as you would a poem.
Storyboards
Scripts
Flatplans
Focus group- four individuals who are in your intended demographic that you know and can ask for feedback.
Audience Profile - this is your ideal audience, primary, secondary and tertiary.
Call sheets
Rushes
Editing process
SFX/VFX
Friday, 1 July 2016
Research and Planning Tasks
All research and planning should be documented on your blog. Ensure you make use of the interactive elements of a blog and include lots of embedded links in a variety of formats.
Be mindful of the evaluation questions.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Remember you must research both your main task and your ancillary tasks.
Research Tasks Completed and uploaded to blog
Brief History of the format and genre
Genre theory (Andrew Goodwin for MV)
Textual Analysis of forms and conventions
Denotation and connotation of Language & Representation (but with brief mention of specific institution and audience)
At least three detailed examples of main task and ancillary.
Institutional structure- who produces/finances/exhibits?
Audience patterns- who are the audiences for these products in general and specifically (linked to textual analysis).
How are they consumed?
Summary of your research- bullet points of which forms and conventions you will appropriate/challenge
Planning Tasks
Mood board (for music video-lyric annotation)
Storyboards
Scripts
Flatplans
Focus group
Audience Profile
Call sheets
Rushes
Editing process
SFX/VFX
Monday, 27 June 2016
Your choice
1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:
• a website homepage for the band;
• a digipak for the album’s release;
• a magazine advertisement for the digipak.
2. A promotion package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with two of the following three options:
• a website homepage for the film;
• a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;
• a poster for the film.
7. An extract from an original documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:
• a radio trailer for the documentary;
• a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;
• a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.
8. The first two pages of an original local newspaper together with two of the following three options:
• a billboard poster for the newspaper;
• a radio advertisement for the newspaper;
• two hyperlinked pages from the paper’s website.
10. A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:
• a poster for the film;
• a radio trailer for the film;
• a film magazine review page featuring the film.
13. An extract from a radio play, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:
• a newspaper advertisement for the play;
• a double-page listings magazine feature about the play;
• a page from the radio station’s website promoting the play.
• a website homepage for the band;
• a digipak for the album’s release;
• a magazine advertisement for the digipak.
2. A promotion package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with two of the following three options:
• a website homepage for the film;
• a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;
• a poster for the film.
7. An extract from an original documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:
• a radio trailer for the documentary;
• a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;
• a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.
8. The first two pages of an original local newspaper together with two of the following three options:
• a billboard poster for the newspaper;
• a radio advertisement for the newspaper;
• two hyperlinked pages from the paper’s website.
10. A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:
• a poster for the film;
• a radio trailer for the film;
• a film magazine review page featuring the film.
13. An extract from a radio play, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:
• a newspaper advertisement for the play;
• a double-page listings magazine feature about the play;
• a page from the radio station’s website promoting the play.
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