Media assessment

19/09/12

Oreoluwa Olowokere

 

 

The device I am going to discuss is the voice over in both the mockumentary and documentary. In the mockumentary (summer height high) they do not use a voice over but an interviewer they use this to make it look more like a documentary and to make it look like the interviewer is really interested in their life and to take the mick out of it, and we do not hear the interviewer because that will take our eyes off the character but the documentary (the tribe trailer) they have a narrator in the back ground because to make you more intrigued in the programme,  the narrator uses formal language, this tells us that it for grown up who will most likely understand the language he uses. The documentary’s language makes you feel like it really serious when he says ‘three thousand filming days around the globe’ this shows that they here to do business.

The next convention I am going to talk about is the quality of the image. In the mockumentary(summer height high) it has low quality footage to make it seem like it has not been tampered with, it is the precise footage that was taken and nothing has been done to it but it has made to seem like that to show that it only one shot and one shot only which actually it has been taken so many time, it also seems that the footage is basic and a bit dull to be to be honest, this is to mock documentary that had low production value and were stereotyping seem as boring. But in documentary (the tribe trailer) it is in HD which makes it more intriguing and fascinating which will make the audience feel like they’re there and shows that it is not cheap but it is worth it.

The other thing that I wish to talk about is shot types and variety, in mockumentary they use long shots because they want to show you the setting and what the characters are doing The documentary uses a close up, mid shot and long shots to show different features of the area, but in both documentary and mockumentary they use in target and that is to engage the audience, so different but for one thing only.