Research for Documentaries

 Here's my research for the criminal documentaries -intro only-

NETFLIX/YOUTUBE DOCUMENTARIES

Documentaries #1 The Final: Attack on Wembley

1. What is the subgenre of crime-documentary would you categories this as? 

Sports, Riots

2. Who is the target audience?

Football fans, England citizens

3. What typical documentary conventions were used?

Phone footages, Interview, Locations

4. Did this opening conform or subvert the conventions for this genre?

Conform

5. How does it create suspense using the following:

• camera: Slow panning, 
• sound: Sounds of breaking glass, flare, people shouting, and the punching sounds
• MeS: Low lighting atmosphere when it highlights the tragedy and the interview, indicating how serious the situation is.
• Edit: Montage clips of riots everywhere

6. What parts of the opening did you find inspiring?

I want to try create a daylight-criminal documentaries as I like to challenge the stereotypical of a  criminal documentaries to be mostly filmed in the night. The daylight-criminal scene may indicates some more severe and concerning crimes have taken place, like school shootings, making it more serious and uncommon cases to most people.

Documentaries #2 Worst Roommate Ever

1. What is the subgenre of crime-documentary would you categories this as? 

Attempted murder, abuse, betrayal

2. Who is the target audience?

People with roommates, Parents, College Students, Young adults

3. What typical documentary conventions were used?

Eerie music, quick cuts, statics, in the evening (dusk)

4. Did this opening conform or subvert the conventions for this genre?

Conform

5. How does it create suspense using the following:

• camera: Static, close up shots, 
• sound: Eerie music (ND)
• MeS: Low lighting atmosphere when it highlights the tragedy 
• Edit: Quick cuts of her injured

6. What parts of the opening did you find inspiring?

The eerie music, as it help us create sense of dangerous and serious atmosphere to the clip. Other than that, the quick cut of photos when the victim is at it's happiest time with the suspect and then cuts to the victim's condition after the suspect has done their crimes, making us to sympathize to the victim and to make the suspect appear evil and heartless. 

Documentaries #3 The Fake Genius: A $30 Billion Fraud

1. What is the subgenre of crime-documentary would you categories this as? 

Financial frauds, money swindling

2. Who is the target audience?

People involved in the FTX, Crypto investors, young teenagers who invests in the crypto

3. What typical documentary conventions were used?

So many flashes effects that came from the reporter's camera and yellows highlights of multiple articles that makes the tittle stands out, to give audiences an idea of what he did at the beginning and what crime Sam has done.

4. Did this opening conform or subvert the conventions for this genre?

Conform

5. How does it create suspense using the following:

• camera: Random movements of phone footages
• sound: suspenseful background music (ND), News reporter monologues (ND)
• MeS: Low lighting atmosphere when it highlights the tragedy 
• Edit: A flashback of when he was known to be a super rich 30 yo from crypto and fast-forwards to be a big frauds.

6. What parts of the opening did you find inspiring?

At first it is the part when the scene cuts to an article then it zooms in to the title, specifically to the most hot topics/good things that are discussed about Sam, which are the claims that he is the richest 30 years old at the time and the 'fact' that he wants to give his fortunes away. But then, all of that changes into yellow highlights of the crime he did such as: swindling $8 billion of his customer money and one of 'biggest financial frauds' in US history.

Documentaries #4 Deciphering the Zodiac Killer

1. What is the subgenre of crime-documentary would you categories this as? 

Serial killer, terrorizing

2. Who is the target audience?

Parents with children

3. What typical documentary conventions were used?

It uses the typical conventions for old unsolved-cases in the 60s: muffled voices which gives us a vintage atmospheric, sketches of the criminal which indicates that investigators has no idea of the criminal's face, and real pictures from the scene for evidence/reports purposes.

4. Did this opening conform or subvert the conventions for this genre?

Conform

5. How does it create suspense using the following:

• camera: Random movements of analogue camera
• sound: Eerie-serious music to add horrors (ND), the killer's voice in a phone call with the investigators(D)
• MeS: Low lightings, formal suited men indicating inspectors and serious matters.
• Edit: Quick cuts of the inspector statements saying they still hasn't figure out the exact motives to this crime.

6. What parts of the opening did you find inspiring?

I really like the analogue camera with all the black and white statics happening, for me it genuinely gives me this uneasy and disturbing feelings of a 'true' crime documentary (i usually watch similar documentary with the same features) . Especially when it cuts to the scene where kids descending from the bus stair, showing us the happy faces they make which it quickly reminds me that the victims were the similar demographics (age) and it does really makes me hate/despise the killer, hoping for him to be soon found and bring to justice. 10/10

Documentaries #5 

1. What is the subgenre of crime-documentary would you categories this as? 

Serial killer, terrorizing

2. Who is the target audience?

Parents with children

3. What typical documentary conventions were used?

It uses the typical conventions for old unsolved-cases in the 60s: muffled voices which gives us a vintage atmospheric, sketches of the criminal which indicates that investigators has no idea of the criminal's face, and real pictures from the scene for evidence/reports purposes.

4. Did this opening conform or subvert the conventions for this genre?

Conform

5. How does it create suspense using the following:

• camera: Random movements of analogue camera
• sound: Eerie-serious music to add horrors (ND), the killer's voice in a phone call with the investigators(D)
• MeS: Low lightings, formal suited men indicating inspectors and serious matters.
• Edit: Quick cuts of the inspector statements saying they still hasn't figure out the exact motives to this crime.

6. What parts of the opening did you find inspiring?

I really like the analogue camera with all the black and white statics happening, for me it genuinely gives me this uneasy and disturbing feelings of a 'true' crime documentary (i usually watch similar documentary with the same features) . Especially when it cuts to the scene where kids descending from the bus stair, showing us the happy faces they make which it quickly reminds me that the victims were the similar demographics (age) and it does really makes me hate/despise the killer, hoping for him to be soon found and bring to justice. 10/10

Self Reflections: Overall this research really helps me alot by giving me clear pictures, ideas, and imaginations about what scenes I will be shooting in the future. This research also gives me some ideas and things that I can implement into our group project documentary, some ideas may need a little extra time to be included as we're also have a very limited time in doing the documentary. But if we're given much more time, I am confident that our documentary will be more refined and much better than what we've done. Aside from that, I am still very proud of my group's hardworking that we've been doing for the past weeks, even there are major barriers, but we still manages our time and do our best to finished it on time. 

My Team for Documentaries

 Here is my documentary teams

Komang: https://atalantadaiva-regentsmedia.blogspot.com/

Edward: https://louis-regentsmedia.blogspot.com/

Budijanto: https://nathan-regentsmedia.blogspot.com/

Self Reflections: I really enjoyed my time working with my groupmates. Especially, due to the reason that I already have close relations with Ata, Nathan, and Louis. In this documentary project, I think we all did a pretty good job producing it. Although our main challenge to shoot scenes was when Ata (which is also the main cast) was unable to join us, as he was hospitalized due to typhus for a week he didn't come. But still, it was all unpredictable and we don't got the power to control that either. What we can do at that time were recording voice memos, taking pictures of me acting like celebrity, doing research n' development, and anything that doesn't involve Ata yet. After Ata was released, we're now able to record scenes. My team is very cooperative and we do try to maintain healthy arguments in solving challenges as we don't want this project to get in our personal life. 

Honestly, I am not as skillful as my other friends. I couldn't draw properly like Nathan, I couldn't record with professional camera like Ata or even editing like Louis. That is why, I took all the researching, behind the scenes, and administration part of the team, as well as providing and preparing the place for recording. But still, I have a great and cooperative team that I wish to work with them again in the near future.

Weekly Progress & Plan - Documentaries Arc

 This is my WEEKLY PROGRESS for my Grade 12 MEDIA STUDIES - updated per week

Week	Start Date		Task		Blogpost Title	Content	Deadline
W1	22 July
W2	29 July	Pre Production	Research	1	Brief	Description of the brief, embed powerpoint	W2
				2	Plan & Weekly Progress	Plan for the whole project, Weekly diary	W2
				3	Team	Your team + Links ot their blogs	W2
				4	Research	Research into documentary openings of the same genre	W4
W3	5 August		Plan	5	Statement of Intent	Plan for the product	W4
				6	Storyboard & Script/Screenplay	Scene by scene storyboard	W5
				7	Location Scout & Risk Assessment	Possible shooting locations, risk assessment table	W5
W4	12 August			8	Filming Schedule
W5	19 August	Production	Produce	9	Behind the Scenes	Images of the shoot. What problems did you face in the shooting day, how did you overcome them?	W8
				10	Thumbnail (Research & Development)	Research into similar thumbnails. Development of own ideas.	W9
W6	26 August
W7	2 September	Post Production	Edit/Reflection	11	Editing Process	How did you edit? Challenges, solutions	W9
				12	Self Reflection	Self Reflection Essay	W9
W8	9 September		Edit
					Deadline for everything	Friday 13th
W9	16 September		Submission	13	Final	Final doc, thumbnail	W9

TERM 1

WEEK 1:

The teacher, Mr Nick, introduce us to the project that we're gonna make starting this week for the whole year as well as an introduction to a new topic.

WEEK 2:

This week we've prepared and set new blogs for the new documentary projects that we're gonna do - on Tuesday.

This week we have learn about media regulations and laws as well as the endless debates of freedom of speeches vs protecting the media user. We would also told to form a group of 2-4 people for our project.  (Wednesday and Friday)

WEEK 3:

This week we did our Statement of Intent. Our idea is a celebrity crime. Where I will be a singer committing a murderer to other celebrity because I am offended by his contents for dissing me. We learn about the difference between misinformation and disinformation where mis- is when information is false but it is unintentionally made, while dis- is when information is not true and it is intentionally made to bring down other parties or spread hate speeches for personal advantage.

WEEK 4: This week we did a project discussion and continue the statement of intent and also start looking for location as well as assessing the risk of the location. We also have decided to go down the theme of young celebrity scandal, especially murderer. As we think that this case is relatable for the current era.

WEEK 5: This week we're discussing about representation theory as well as watching 2 passages, Jessica Wongso Cyanide Indonesian cases and an Indonesian TV show named Kelas International. In each movies, we discuss how Indonesian are being represented in the Western media and how Westerners are represented in Indonesian media. Each of them have different representation, but we couldn't always assume that all of the representation is true.

To-do list: recording

WEEK 6: We are watching 1 hour long episode of a Netflix series called Black Mirror, where we learn further about MeS and answering questions. This week we have done well on the recording.

WEEK 7: This week we do 2 days of project lesson and a day for theory lesson, where we discuss about audience's power in media as well as examining a case study. SnowWhite live action 2024 as a case study, where the dwarfs cast are switched from multiple race to a CGI edited, where it invites more backlash to the film. This week we did the editing as well as thumbnail research.

WEEK 8: This week we have no theory lesson, only project lessons. This is where I am finishing my assignments, projects, and test. This has been a very super busy week for me and my friends. We're also finishing, polishing, and garnishing the documentaries that we've been working for the past weeks.

Self Reflections: This weekly journal/diary, name it all you want, helps me to keep me in track of my works, progress, and reminding me of my to-do work. It also recap all the things I've learn and discover throughout my media studies journey. Everytime I forget about something in media class, I would try to check mine than my friends. However, my weakness for this diary is that it is very time consuming to fill and I am too lazy to fill it in, and I don't have enough free time to really complete it. 

Documentaries Project Brief

 Here is my Documentary Project Brief

Self Reflections: I am very excited with this project, since I also like to watch criminal documentary online in a pirated website as I don't have the budget to afford a monthly of Netflix robbing my bank account through subscription, which is why this topic interest me alot. Be able to experience and be involved in a making of documentaries really thrives me to my best, and yet I know who to work with.