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Production

Interview video The interviews are important part of the research section of a documentary process as they can reveal answers to unanswered questions  questions which might be important to creating your doc they can also be used by the filmmaker to help create certain effects in you're such as interviewing a crying person could help create a sad tone throughout you're doc but they can also be used to inform you of a certain subject but also help you understand an historic event much better than you already did. Some techniques for questioning could involve the use of open questions which help get a more varied answer which may or may not contain the answer you want you could also used a closed question which helps you get a more exact answer out of the person but a multiple direction question can get at anything your interviewee but whenever you are interview a person you need to try your best at getting the most relaxed response from them that's why you need to help bu...

Ideas

Main idea My idea for this documentary is to look into to the history of a successful business and the business I have chosen is the Thornham deli as I am friends with the owners and that it is a successful deli and restaurant that has won multiple awards for its food and accommodation as it is also part of the holiday homes chain called No'33 which is a high class holiday home provider. I want to look into what made them start the deli what they did to make it a success and how no'33 helped spread tinder influence and how did all the higher up members of the deli joined the business and that I will the questions around the deli and the history of what the deli and number 33 use to be before its popularity. Treatment for my idea In life I believe that any small business can grow into success. My film is will show this by exploring the growth of the Thornham deli from a simple town farm shop into a successful deli and restaurant but the main conflict is the village of Thor...

Research

Codes with the codes there are 2 main sections Technical and Symbolic and these can either be found severely or together they can both be found in music and they are basically a system of signs which help create meanings in a media text for example Camera angles in film and TV. An examples of technical code are lighting,editing and camera shots and some examples of symbolic codes are character expressions, mine en scene and setting. Conventions They the accepted ways of producing something and that its closely connected to an audience expectation of a media product and are split into three types of conventions. Story convention: common narrative or structure and understandings that are common in storytelling. Genre conventions: common use of tropes, characters, settings or themes in a particular type of media Form conventions: the certain way we expect codes to be arranged  Purpose of a documentary by Michael Renov Documentaries should  Record, reve...