Flat Earth Documentary

 

 

 

 

Flat Earth Documentary

 

Is this a documentary? Yes it is a documentary.

What was the producer's purpose in making this documentary? For media teaching purpose and making a spoof documentary of the world being flat.
How did the producer's purpose shape the content of this program? It shaped the content of this program by making a very unrealistic content into it looking like a full on legitimate documentary that shows realistic events.
 

How is language used to manipulate the message? They used very formal language to manipulate the viewer's mind into thinking its real.
How are sound and images used to manipulate the message? The interviewer makes the questions tailored so that the interviewee says what the interviewer wants him/her to speak.
What techniques are used to enhance the authenticity of the program? By showing "real" images/ scenes/ acts of the content of the documentary to make everything look real, as the viewer would believe that they see.

What techniques are used to enhance the authority of the program? They interviewed high-ranked "professors" and because they interviewed professionals, the viewer would believe them, as they believe that the professionals know a lot about the content.
 

How might different viewers interpret this message differently? They might be persuaded by the amazing techniques that the producer uses and edits the documentary into thinking that the documentary was real and that the world is actually flat.  

What techniques are used to attract audience attention? Techniques with sound, images, sound effects, transitions, scenes and language.
 

Who makes money from this program? The producers and the company that produces the documentary.
 

Do Documentaries Show Reality?

Authenticity- No false, a reliable fact, includes only facts and no lies.

Similarities between "authentic" and "real" -

• They both talk about things that are true
• They are both existent and permanent

1. Time/space conflation, the producer uses film acquired at different times, and edits them in a way that suggests that theyhappened at the same time or sequentially.  
2. The asked for shot, the producer steps in front of the camera to alter some aspect of an experience in order to get a more attractive or more effective shot.  
3. Re-enactment, a producer uses actors and scripted dialogue in order to capture a visual event that was impossible to record while it was happening.

 All these ways of filming was shown in the documentary clip.

Codes and Conventions of Documentaries

Documentaries represent a lot of the same things, even though the topics are different, for example, they will include:


- Facts
- Diagrams
- Narration
- Video Clips
- Music with the mood of the theme.