Evaluation

Induction: Evaluation

"Educating Cardiff" series 1 episode 1

The show that I researched was "Educating Cardiff" that was a show that started in 2015 which is an imitation on "Educating Yorkshire" which was on channel 4. This gave the audience an incite to the education system of secondary schools. this is a serious but funny documentary on students and teachers life. I chose this specific style in this genre because i would of liked to imitate some of the camera work in my own project.



The typical sections of the documentary that the genre normally has were a range of medium close-ups, medium shots, high angle shots and a range of other techniques. The documentary typically has a focus on a certain topic such as a group of students up to mischief. the shots normally were 4-5 seconds long and cut to a new clip. this technique is used so the audience does not get bored on one clip; this also allows the documentary to show other stories happening at the same time due to the length of the shot. the documentary is normally has high key lighting to state the mood of the sequence.

My project is called a "A Greener Journey" that is about how students get to college and what is better: practicality or being green. The overall message of the documentary was that more students get the bus or car rather than walk and cycle to Bhasvic. We tried to show how most people use transport by using other clips from the internet in the documentary.  

The Strengths:

• Good establishing shot
• A range of editing techniques
• the non-diegetic sound show the mood of the documentary 

The Weaknesses:

• The audio didn't work due to the set up of the microphone 

The main shots that I used was establishing shots at the beginning of the documentary and use close-ups or medium shots for interviews.