In what ways does you media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We were given a brief to create a 5 minute opening to a documentary, a magazine article and a radio trail both advertising the documentary. In order to start planning our documentary we conducted research into professional documentaries to figure out what the codes and conventions were. We watched Supersize Me and My Tattoo Addiction as well as some short documentaries which were on YouTube such as Skin Deep. This gave us a good idea of the codes and conventions of documentaries and how we could implement them in our documentary. We also did some research on the conventions to be certain that the ones that we had picked up from the documentaries were correct. After completing all of our research we concluded that the typical codes and conventions of documentaries are: voiceovers, expert interviews, vox pops, reconstructions, archival footage, montage, exposition and actuality.