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

Throughout the construction of my media product, i followed the codes and conventions of a documentary genre and have challenged certain codes and conventions. The only convention my documentary never included was the famous voice over which is used in several documentaries, one example is the ‘Tyson’ documentary. I felt that my documentary did not need a voice over, reason being was the documentary was more opinionated than factual. I used an amateur boxer and a cardiac physiologist for my interviews within the documentary. Furthermore I used young males for my interviews who are involved in boxing and going gym because I felt it was relevant for the topic of my documentary. The interviewees use Standard English a give a calm and clear delivery.


The most common edit I used in my documentary was the cut so it did not distract the audiences from what was going on, on the screen. The cut would also help the audience to be more aware and concentrated on the screen.


I used creative camera work throughout my documentary; i used conventional framing on the interviews such as standing on the left or the right of the screen and eye line third way down.

Some of the filming the camera was static on a tripod and certain interviews the camera was hand held. I also used ‘eye of the tiger’ song from the famous movie ‘Rocky’. I think this was relevant music for my documentary as it doesn’t interfere with the interviews or abstract from what’s going on, on the screen. Also the music works with the archive footage of Ricky Hatton’s due to its fast tempo.


Poster

In some ways I have challenge the codes and conventions of a documentary poster. Commonly sports poster documentaries have bold writing and flashy images. However the poster I have created for my documentary has one striking image within the middle with a shade of ‘red’ visible on it. The image sums up the content of the programme and makes one reflect the down fall of Ricky Hatton’s career. Also within the poster there is a line which says ‘Ricky Hatton shocks the boxing world’ I included this within the poster because I felt it was relevant to the topic of the documentary. I have also included a logo of Ricky Hatton which familiarizes the audience with British boxing. Finally
I have also included the title of the programme, scheduling of it and the TV company logo on the bottom right.

Magazine review article

For the magazine article I followed real codes and conventions as I used on striking image of Ricky Hatton throwing a punch which makes the review look effective. The article includes the star rating, time and date the documentary will be broadcasted and the title of the magazine. I have implemented an image from news of the world of Ricky Hatton snorting cocaine as I felt it was relevant to the topic of my documentary.