1- In what
ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
The media
product that we chose was a short film, a ‘mocumentary’. To create this mocumentary, we developed and
challenged forms and conventions of real media products. The two genres that we
chose to use were Teen and documentary and so we experimented with their forms
and conventions. We joined these two genres’ together to form a hybrid movie as
we didn’t want to just create a Teen movie or a documentary. After researching
about them we decided as a group whether or not each convention would be suitable
for our mocumentary.
In our mocumentary we have used ‘real’ footage,
in the way that we have used real photos of our main subject, ‘Ben Collins’. We
used these photographs to make the mocumentary seem more ‘real’. A convention
that we used that we were not planning to use was using a handheld camera.
We
only used this in part of the mocumentary and for the beginning we had a very
formal and conventional style which split the style of our mocumentary. We
however didn’t use voice over to guide our audience through this break in
style, the reason being, that we thought a voiceover was too influential and
leading for the audience. Instead we wanted it to be a hybrid which would
create an active audience rather than a passive audience.
We referenced the convention of interviewing
experts in our mocumentary. This could be called ‘pastiche’ as it was a fake
expert in our ‘fake’ world, this could have been regarded as mocking real
documentaries.
One convention that we did use to help guide
our audience throughout our mocumentary was text. We used this to show time,
place and what was happening. This is ordinarily would be the voice of code.
The codes and conventions from a teen movie
that we used were that we situated our mocumentary in a high school and we included
a relationship and illegal substances.
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