Documentary Style

Forms + conventions
Our documentary will be filmed as a series, not a one off feature length documentary. The modes we have chosen to suite the style of our doumentary are Expository, Participatory and Interactive. The things which make our documentary these modes is due to the involvements of interviews (with interviewer), archive footage, archive photographs, and present footage of the swimmer training.

Audience
For advertising and audience feedback, a facebook fan site will be set up in order for us to find out about our audience, whilst attracting others to watch our documentary. A twitter page will accompany our facebook fansite. Our target audience is an age group roughly spanning from people of 16 to 50 years of age, as we do nnot think the subject of our documentary would be appealing to any other age groups. We will then devise a questionnaire for our potential audience, asking them what they think of our ideas and whether they could offer any feedback on how it may be improved.

Institutions
For distribution we are thinking that Channel 4 would be a suitable distributor for our documentary, due to the fact it shows alot of documentaries, and has the means of advertising products well. For a sponsor the British Olympic committee would be an ideal sponsor due to the fact that the documentary is about the olympics and I imagine that if we represent the British Olympic Committee in a positive light, they would sponsor us.

Representation
Social groups
Social Ideas
Messages and values
Ideology  - point of view or perspective

Documentary Idea for coursework

The theme of our documentary is `the unsung heroes of sporting events`. This involves filming of an olympic swimmer who came 62nd in the Beijing olympics for Britain but got no recognition, unlike the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place swimmers. We will also be filming other sporting heroes in other sports as well as swimming, and use footage in a sort of series style documentary.
The documentary will use modes such as participatory, expository, observational and maybe performative.

There will be Interviews of John the swimmer and his personal trainer. Also archive footage of John swimming in events, and present day footage of him training for 2012 olympics. Using London stadium being built as pillow shots and using transitions. a voiceover will be used in order to inform the audience on information of the characters and on the vents happening on screen. Other things will be used as well such as introduction of series to infor the audience on the upcoming episodes. Credits. Music - emphatic.

   

5 Modes Of Documentary

There are 5 modes of documentary.

• Expository

• Observational

• Participatory
• Reflexive
• Performative