Documentary ideas

Hull City the club in crisis Interviews with former employees Ownership issues Name change No manager Interviews with David burns Lots of different opinions Hull city’s rise up the leagues Lots of highlights More interviews available because it’s not a sensitive issue Interview with david burns 2002 to 2009 highlights Won’t go out of date Limited public views The allams No interviews would be available Lots of public opinions Talk about the name change Talk about the protests Allams businesses Corruption in football Becoming common Lots of public views

Codes and Conventions of Documentaries and Sport Documentaries

This is a good example of a documentary; it has most of the the conventions of a documentary.

One convention of a documentary is interviews, almost every documentary has interviews in it, they help to get across the point the documentary wants to show, interviews are especially important within sport documentary's because they give you information about what goes on behind the scenes. A lot of people will watch the documentary for the interviews, they are seen more reliable then a voice over who has no credibility. Usually they back up the point the documentary is trying to prove but sometimes the questions asked to the interviewee are against the point and this is will normally be disproved throughout the documentary.

Another convention of a documentary is a voice over, almost every documentary should have a voice over because it keeps the viewer informed about whats happening in the documentary, they will usually encourage the audience to believe that they have a large knowledge of the area that the documentary is about.

Another convention of a documentary is 'Real footage'; in a documentary there will often be 'real footage' of what the narrator is describing, for example if there was a documentary on 911 then there would be lot's of footage of the event to give the viewer an idea of what they're describing. The documentary will often spend time trying to convince the audience that the footage showed is 'real' and unaltered, they do this because they need to make the audience believe in the point they're trying to present. This is one of the most important conventions of a documentary.

In a football related documentary one of the most crucial aspects is the use of archive footage, with archive footage I can make my documentary seem much more credible. This is an important aspect my documentary specifically because a lot of people watching won't know about the club; using archive footage is a good way to entice the audience into the video.

Vox-pops are a huge convention of similar documentaries, it's the best way to represent the fan base and it's something which you'll find in almost every documentary similar to mine. It has a huge effect on the audience; by having vox pops you're giving the documentary added credibility, it's not enough to just say what you think they think, you need to have evidence. With added credibility it makes my documentary look a lot more professional.

Like all documentaries there has to be a narrative, as explained by Todorov. There has to be an antagonist and a protagonist; the antagonist will be the Allam family and the protagonist will then be the fans. I think that it's best to make the Allam family the antagonist because they're seen like the 'bad guys' in all of this. There has to be a conflict of interest; the conflict of interest is the many things; the two main conflicts are the name change, and the membership scheme.

Documentary Brief

An extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

•a radio trailer for the documentary;

•a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;

•a newspaper advertisement for the documentary. 

Documentary Ideas

Hull City Ownership Crisis

15th September 2016

Sven E Carlssen
Commercial exhibitionist (Jenny from the block Jenifer lopez) (Drunk in love beyonce)
Televised brand (Seven years Lukas Graham)
Electronic shaman (Scream michael jackson) (roar katy perry)

14th September Notes

Pierce 1931
'Nothing is a sign unless it is interpreted as a sign'

3 types of signs
Iconic
Index
Symbolic sign