The next documentary I looked at was Channel 4’s series ‘The Family’ which focussed on the Hughes family, documenting their life for 100 days and nights. It focussed on the stories of the three teenagers in the family. The issues faced by these teenagers link to the lives of thousands of young people. The episode I analysed focussed on Emily, the ‘family rebel’ and a lot of careful editing was used throughout to build up a representation of gender and age within the family unit.
I found the following codes and conventions were used in this documentary:
- Opes with a description about the daughter; 'She's the family rebel'
- Close up camera shots of her to emphasise she is the main subject
- Careful editing: showing the extremes- emphasising her messy bedroom
- Close up shots when intervewing her and her parents- dont look directly at the camera
- Shows a sequence of arguments between her and her parents- use these parts to create a negative image of her- only represents her as an argumentative teenager
- Side shots of facial expressions
- Narrator not on her side: ‘Spends most nights out with her friends’
- Camera looking down on her
- Purposely showing scenes where they are discussing her bad attitude and the fact that she doesn’t pay them any rent
- Shows her talking about stereotypical teenage topics
- Emphasises her mum tidying her room, doing all the work, while shes still in bed
- Music for effect, to suit the mood they want to create
- Black and white camera affect used when the mum and dad are tidying her room- to represent negativity and a bad mood she has created
- Camera shots: far away to show the whole bedroom- where the mum, dad and daughter are arguing, then from different angles
- Close up of face- side shot- to create sympathy for the mother who looks distressed.
- Edited to show all the clips that represent the teeange daughter negatively to create a good storyline for the public to watch and feel interested in: needed something to focus on for the individual episode
- Close up shot of the daughter crying to create sympathy
- Reaction to her story from a group of teenagers
- Questions come up on the screen- have been prompted with what to say as this was set up unlike the documentary.
- Shows clips from the programme then close ups of the individual teeangers with their name appearing on the screen- they individual views.
- Interviewer asked certain questions to get the responses they want.
- Used certain clips from the documentary to be able to ask these questions.
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