Conventions of Documentary

Conventions That were shown in Supersized Me

Voiceovers (Scott Chapin)

Voiceovers bring the voice of reasons to facts brought into the documentary, the confirmation of the facts, authoritative but also encouraging to the watchers , that gives them more of a understanding as the voice seems to give some sort of specialist knowledge on the current subject, therefore backing up the images on screens.

Voiceovers are capable of going other any scene, in Surpersize Me voiceovers were accustomed to images and animations with quotes and facts to match to make the scenes more interesting so that more people would watch and listen to what is being said .

Animations & Diagrams

Animations & Diagrams are used to display and backup information mentioned by voiceovers, making it easier to understand and to show how it would really look or compare to other things. This is taken from Supersize me showing both annotations and diagrams to back up information being said by the narrator. This also mentions text which also tend to be believed by the audience and are a quick of convey information and is usually followed by diagrams.

Archivial Footage

Archival Footage is material footage obtained from a film library or archive and put into a documentary to show historical events or to add detail without the need for additional filming. It always there to be relevant things associated to the documentary in the documentary that can/ could've been taken from any time period. This is used in all sorts of documentary as it backs up topics relevant and things that can evoke emotions to viewers.

Technicality Of Realism 

Technicality of realism is where the documentary creates states of realism using natural environments affected by the light and sound. This is used a lot in Supersize Me showing how bad the food and what it is doing to him. The natural light & sounds conveys various other things you wouldn't be able to get from a normal artificial light and sound filled place.

Sound

Sounds within Documentary can be used among scene transfer and overlapping photos to make a segment more interesting or to present something in a certain way. This is used a lot in Supersize Me like when text snap shots are moved across the screen.

Visual Coding / Expert participants

Visual Coding is the mise en scene of a scene where the interviews or say this person is doing to show they are professional at what they doing. In supersize Me this used a lot as he visits the doctors lots and to show that these are doctor they use medical equipment in the backgrounds and them looking really like they are doctors, this also affects the interview as since they like what it says they, that means what they are saying is relatively true.

stop motion Animation formats

    Stop Motion Formats 

Clay animation

Each object or character is sculpted from clay or other such similarly pliable material as Plasticine, usually around a wire skeleton called an armature, and then arranged on the set, where it is photographed once before being slightly moved by hand to prepare it for the next shot, and so on until the animator has achieved the desired amount of film. Upon playback, the Human Mind of the viewer perceives the series of slightly changing, rapidly succeeding images as motion.

A consistent shooting environment is needed to maintain the illusion of continuity: objects must be consistently placed and lit, and work must proceed in a calm environment.

A subvariation of clay animation can be informally called "clay melting".Any kind of heat source can be applied on or near (or below) clay to cause it to melt while an animation camera on a time-lapse setting slowly films the process.

Producing a stop-motion animation using clay is extremely laborious. Normal film runs at 24 frames per second (frame/s). With the standard practice of "doubles" or "twos" (double-framing, exposing two frames for each shot) 12 changes are usually made for one second of film movement. Shooting a 30-minute movie would therefore require making approximately 21,600 stops to change the figures for the frames; a full-length (90-minute) movie, 64,800--and possibly many more if some parts were shot with "singles" or "ones" (one frame exposed for each shot).

The object must not altered by accident, slight smudges, dirt, hair, or dust. Feature-length productions have generally switched from clay to rubber silicone and resin cast components.

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WIKIPEDIA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_animation

                                                                 Paper Cut Outs

Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs. The world's earliest known animated feature films were cutout animations (made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani); as is the world's earliest surviving animated feature.

Today, cutout-style animation is frequently produced usingcomputers, with scanned images or vector graphics taking the place of physically cut materials. South Park is a notable example of this transition since its first episode was made withpaper cutouts before switching to computer animation.

More complex figures depicted in cutout animation, such as insilhouette animation, often have joints made with a rivet or pin – or when made on a computer, an anchor. These connections act as mechanical linkage which have the effect of a specific, fixed motion.

                                                                            - WIKIpedia

                                          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutout_animation

 

 

                                                                   Toy-Mation/ Puppet

 

 

Toy-mation uses a toy, such as an action figure or a Lego figure as the model used for animation. Toy animation works as you move the model / toy step by step to create a full movement due to a  some toys limited movement, it causes a more robotic feel especially from lego, since lego is the most commonly used in toy-mation. This would also Count as Puppet animation due to the fact the animator ( usally lego for inexperienced ) moving and using a pre model to recreate or create scenes depending on what was planned. The difference between puppets and Toymation is that puppets can filmed constantly meaning it would count as a stop motion

                                              Mixed Formats

(Robo chicken)

 

Mixed formats is usally where formats a mixed to create a series of textile complicated scenes/ scenery, Commonly mixed together are usually Toy-mation/Puppets and clay animation. 

 

 

 

 

 

Ideas mindmap 2

Whiteboard Idea

This idea came together by playing the infamous pokemon game.
Two animals will be fighting in this generic pokemon where the betters will be seen as an effect on the match, However as the match continues WWF intervene and change the course of the match which will then change the scenery into a Positive Wildlife reserve in which all sorts of animals are seen playing.

This will all be done in a limited palleted with mainly The colour black will be used , It give off the feel like gameboy color with the color scheme planned.

The concept is have the color to look more like shading and the primary color on each animal would be the white that covers primarily most of there body but where it is shading will use the least deeply intensified colours.

As for when the animal owners are in the battle screen they will follow the same color scheme but just looks a bit more menacing than the animals themselves.