For my production piece, I intend to produce a documentary about the reality TV series ‘The Only Way is Essex’, interviewing people from this area to emphasise the representation of this particular region. I also intend to show possible prompts given to interviewees to emphasise the falseness of such shows and the exaggerated Essex stereotype. This will be linked to my critical investigation which discusses whether 'scripted' reality TV programmes are a negative and poor representation of society.
Before I create this documentary, I need to analyse a range of existing documentaries to look at the codes and conventions I can replicate to make it successful.
I will be particularly focussing on the follow conventions:
- Camera angles used in different situations to create certain effects, e.g. to create sympathy, to appear vulnerable, to appear unsympathetic
- Camera editing techniques used to manipulate footage
- Representation of their subjects
- Possible scripting and/or leading questions
- Styles of narrative by the presenter, e.g. empathy, emotive language, whose side are they on? ‘the big question’ raised from the beginning and evaluated at the end
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