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Generic Research: Website Research 1

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Generic Research Summation

Generic Research Summation

Documentaries are a way of documenting a nonfictional event/ issue that has happened or is happening. Theorist, John Grierson defined the term documentary as 'creative treatment of actuality', in 1926

Common Codes and Conventions

• Vox Pox
•  Interviews with people that are related to the documentary subject or with professionals 
• Narrator - voice over/ host exploring issue
• Handheld camera to convey realism
• Archive footage 
• Establishing Shots - setting the scene
• Close up - evoke intimacy with viewer and victim
• Simple editing - not to distract from the documentary 

Bill Nicole's 6 Mode of Documentary theory

The most used form of documentary film is the observational mode, as highlighted in Bill Nicole's theory, in which the filmaker is hidden behind the camera and has no intervention on the outcome in the documentary. This style is commonly referred to as the "fly on the wall" technique as nothing is staged or set up for the camera. I will use this type of documentary mode in my coursework as it fits the conventional mode of documentaries and it will interesting to explore this. However, I will also use the participatory mode in my coursework and this will be done through interviews. I will also use voice overs which is also a common feature of documentaries.

Audience Research Summation

Audience Research Summation

My Audience research consisted of multiple questionnaires and a focus group. In which I found that my target audience usually do not watch documentaries, they voted on a scale from 1 to 5 on how often they watch documentaries ( 1 being close to never) with the average being 2.36. With this information, I realized that I would have to make this documentary appeal to my target audience by perhaps catering it better than regular documentaries do.
I delved deeper and asked my selected audience that fit this demographic about what would convince them to voluntarily watch a documentary. In which all the recipients had a shared opinion - that the documentary have to be interesting. The general consensus of the group's most interesting topic was crime which fits well with my chosen topic - gang culture in middle-class societies.
Also, through my audience research, I found that my target audience is no longer engaging with documentaries through cable tv - and this may be the reason that my target audience is not engaging with documentaries as a whole. In this, I discovered that if the documentary is promoted more on social media and streaming networking sites they would discover more documentaries that meet their intrest and would watch them more. So in my documentary, I will provide multiple opportunities for digital convergence and for the target audience to interact with the actual documentary from their social platforms

Revision of Pitch

Revision of Pitch

In the light of your generic and audience research will you change/adapt anything about your pitch? 

My generic and audience research backs up my original brief generally. Audiences in the 16-25-year-old demographics would be interested in the theme of crime in the documentary so the topic of gangs in middle-class societies would interest my target audiences

It also fits well as a BBC 3 documentary as, proven with the generic research, BBC 3 focuses a lot of their documentaries on social issues, creating realism in my documentary

What ideas will you develop? 

I think I will focus on drugs in middle-class societies as an opener and an introduction to the documentary.

Generic research 3

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