The purpose of a brief is, to have an idea/plan of what steps to follow to create a product.  A brief is what a company gives out to client to make a product.

It is important to follow a brief so you do not get any steps wrong, and therefore end up making the correct product of what a company wants you to create.

- Any Media Product.

-Any style or genre.

-Choose own content.

-Feature all media products to engage visitors.

-Choose one medium.

-Source and prepare the materials.

-Choose to follow or disagree with codes and conventions.

- Target audience - 16-21 year olds.

Following the brief I have been given, I have decided to make a documentary about the youth subculture of athletes and how music might affect them. I will talk about the benefits and disadvantages of the music they listen to. I will aim to make the documentary between 2-3 minutes.

Poetic

Codes and Conventions:

-Small amount of narrator if any atall

-Uses images and beautiful pictures

-Uses tone, mood and rhythm to tell the story.

This is a rare documentary type and it displays a more beautiful way to show a film, without any voice , lets the audience make their own opinion on the subject.

Expository

Codes and Conventions:

-Speak directly to the audience.

-Uses voice over and titles

-Gives strong argument and opinion.

This is seen as the most common and usual documentary, gives a strong argument and displays good knowledge of the subject.

Reflexive

Codes and Conventions:

-Shows they are making a documentary.

-Chooses not to edit out the parts what would usually be cut.

-Shows camera and film makers but not continually

-Spectator is aware of the attention of being filmed.

-Speaks about the problems and the history.

-Uses Voice of god over images.

Participatory

Codes and Conventions:

-The director is involved in the action, always on screen.

-Does what the subject is about.

-Hand-held camera movement.

The crew and documentary maker interact with the subject, on screen most of the time.

Observational

Codes and Conventions:

-Hidden cameras.

-Observe the activities what are happening without altering the actions to change , by hiding cameras.

-No voice over, small amount.

Performative

Codes and Conventions:

-Obstruct Public and experts

-Opposite to observational.

-Cameras are seen by the subject.

-Have different meanings.

-Show filmmakers own involvement.

Footballers, Sex, Money: What's gone wrong?

This documentary shows how footballers juggle their personal and professional life. Amal Fashanu narrates the film and finds out how youngsters who earn £30,000 per week and retire when they are 30. She sees how these players use the fame in their love life, she meets young women who are wanting to sleep with these players to see if this culture is a normal thing for the players. She uses the Ched Evans situation as an example of the predatory style. She looks at the players inflated egos, pressure, money and large levels of women attention and see how the players handle that differently to their professional life. I will use this and see how this has been successful how it is similar to mine and use some of the techniques Amal used to make her documentary interesting.

Target Audience-  15+

'Class of 92'

'The Class of 92' is a football documentary similar to mine about six teenagers growing up through Manchester United ranks and all becoming first team players at around the same age in 1992. I chose to watch this documentary because it is similar to my idea and will have aspects I will need to use to make a successful documentary.

Target Audience- 12+

Footballers, Sex and Money , What went wrong? 

I like the start of this documentary, The narrator displays the problem she wants to find out and she discusses her opinions in the introduction of the documentary. In the documentary she states the facts and statistics of the first problem she discusses which is sex scandals and affairs which the footballers do. Amal states that John Fashanu (her father) and her mother divorced when she was two years old after her mother found out he had an affair. She argues over both points asking if we are to blame over the attention footballers get , or if the footballers are to blame. I like the cinematography in the documentary lots of different shots and she interviews different people in different locations. She introduces different people, with different interests and she wants to find out the other story from other people from both sides. I like the use of the voice of god. She interviews, Dwight Yorke , former footballer , she asks him about the attention and money , his first answer was to "get the most money you can as a footballer because it's a short career and when you stop , the money stops with it."

The mise-en-scene is just smart/casual clothing and the make-up is small amounts. 

Overall I would like to make this documentary similar to mine.

'The Class of 92'

I think the start of this documentary is very good, using the players reactions to them watching one of their most important matches in their career. The slow music has an emotional sense towards it. It then shows events which occurred in the year 1992. The mood then lightens up again and shows the young players in Manchester playing for the club with a upbeat music over the images. The players then speak about each of their teammates saying their personality and style. The editing switches from continuous and synchronous throughout the clips and interviews.I really like the editing in the documentary and I would like my editing to be similar to it. The mood then starts to get emotional about Sir Matt Busby. I like the whole effect of the documentary as it gives the audience more of an insight of the player's life and their breakthrough, Overall I want my documentary to be like this one as it is interesting and enjoyable.

In my documentary I want to use similar editing like "The Class Of 92'".

I think that the editing in that documentary is very good and it mixes from being synchronous and continuous. I like the editing in this documentary over "Footballers:Money, Sex ,What went wrong?" although both of the editing styles are good, I think the "Class of 92" would be better for my documentary. I think the mise-en-scene in both the documentaries are very similar which are both just casual clothing and the locations of filming are similar, low-key places. The cinematography also is similar but I prefer the "F:M,S,WWW?" because it has a good range of angles compared to "The class of 92" I will use angles and the cinematography like "F:M,S,WWW?".

Sound is used a lot more in "the class of 92" I like this because it sets the mode and emotions in the documentary, overall I prefer "The class of 92" because it uses different features and it keeps you much more interested in the documentary.  I do argue that the other documentary has a different mode and is more about a question to be answered rather than "The class of 92" is just an expository documentary showing more of an insight in the players breakthrough based around "Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt,Gary Neville and Phil Neville."