Luca Kerrison TV and Film blog

What is a documentary? A documentary (to me) is a film or series consisting of actual footage and/or reenactments of real life events, places and people to create a narrative, however true or false from the facts, for the understanding of the general viewer. Expository documentaries: The key points of what makes an expository documentary are: A voice over narrator who's purpose it is to give meaning to the images seen by the audience. Voice over provides facts to accompany the images. The images used compliment the voice over the same way the voice over compliments the images. The primary objective of an expository documentary is to represent the subject matter in a transparent way. The example I've picked is the BBC's 'The Blue Planet' (2001). The Blue Planet is probably one of the BBC's most famous documentaries. featuring the voice over of Sir David Attenborough, The Blue Planet covers a whole range of subjects to do with the seas an...

Expository documentary - We Are The Lambeth Boys Authoritative disembodied voiceover giving meaning to the images - throughout the documentary we are being given information by an unknown narrator on different subjects, ranging from activities to things about the boys themselves. voiceover provides facts and arguments for the images - the narrator is controlling the opinions we are meant to have for certain scenes, for instance when discussing the death penalty one of the boys mentions something the majority of viewers wouldn't agree with so the narrator tells the audience to "forgive them, they're only young". transparent representation - the documentary does a good job of mostly showing an accurate representation of the lives of the youth club goers and more specifically the Lambeth Boys, with minimal (noticeable) manipulation. Observational documentary - High School Unobtrusive construction and depictions - Whole documentary focuses on a day a...

News Research: ITV Monday 20th 2020 18:00 - ITV Anglia The studio is big and open with a desk for the newsreaders and a screen of to the side for the weather. The title sequence has a couple of clips pop up with various filters, ending on a video of wind turbines accompanied with some funky music. There were a fair few stories, starting with the coronavirus update before moving on to a more light hearted story about an older gentleman helping out his community. It flipped back and forth between good and bad stories with the weather report about halfway through. April 23rd: April 23rd is Shakespeare Day, as well as St. George’s Day. News values: News values are “Criteria that influence the selection and presentation of events as published news”. The 12 values are: Frequency - shorter solved stories are preferred over longer developed stories like famines and droughts. An example of this is Captain Tom Moore's 100th birthday and his NHS fundra...