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6. Screening: Channel 5 - Benefit Street (2014)

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6. Screening: Channel 5 - Benefit Street (2014)

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Benefits Street Series One Episode Three:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nYneg3qR8U
Review and Reactions :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11597197/Benefits-Street-reviews-and-reactions.html

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5.c Examples of Representation and Media Ethics

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5.c Examples of Representation and Media Ethics

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ITV's Take Me Out Entertainment Series and it's representation of women and men in the dating scene.

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5.b Examples of Representation and Media Ethics

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5.b Examples of Representation and Media Ethics

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BBC'S Drugs Map of Britain Documentary Television Series and it's representation of drug users around the country.

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5.a Examples of Representation and Media Ethics

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5.a Examples of Representation and Media Ethics

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Channel 5's Benefits Documentary Television Series and its representation of millions of people who are on benefits.

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Is the television series representing the police ethically? Media has to power to present a group of people in a certain way and often negatively. Audience is told that police/detectives from the respective cases declined to be interviewed however they could have asked a separate police force to show that these tactics are not normally followed, so a fair representation of the police is evident in the series.
"The image imbues whatever it presents with the aura of being natural, that is, of being a representation of the way things (really) are (and must be).."
Media Ethics, edited by Matthew Kieran, Taylor and Francis (1998). p.p 139

"Reality is always more extensive and complicated than any system of representation can possibly comprehend and we always sense that this is so – representation never ‘ gets ’ reality."
Frank Leishman and Paul Mason (2003) Policing and the Media : Facts, Fictions and Factions. p.p 3

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4.b. Psychology at the Movies - Young, Skip Done (2012)

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4.b. Psychology at the Movies - Young, Skip Done (2012)

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Neil Postman observed that in the modern age, the way information is communicated must look and sound good on camera. Politicians, newscasters, teachers, and so on must filter everything they say through the lens of what it will look and sound like. Along the way, the message can be altered, beautified, or even fabricated in order to give it the right visual appearance..
p.p 144

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 4.a.  Representing the Truth? - Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)

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 4.a.  Representing the Truth? - Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)

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Nick Broomfield's interview with Aileen Wuornos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilb4beZ_wQo

Is the truth that Aileen is 'crazy' because of what she is saying in this interview or because of the line of questioning from Nick Broomfield - which is making her agitated? Also is it edited in a certain way.

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"The camera is assumed to be an instrument that produces representations which tell the truth."

Richard Kilborn and John Izod (1997) ‘How real can you get? Realism and Documentary’ in An Introduction to Television Documentary. p.p 45

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3. Richard Kilborn and John Izod (1997) ‘How real can you get? Realism and Documentary’ in An Introduction to Television Documentary. p.p 43

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3. Richard Kilborn and John Izod (1997) ‘How real can you get? Realism and Documentary’ in An Introduction to Television Documentary. p.p 43

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Forms of Realism - Psychological Realism

Refer to the attempt to give persuasive account of the inner life of an individual or even a group of people.

Refer to an attempt to represent the world as if it were being seen from an individual's point of view.

Refer to the various forms of empathy that can be formed between viewers and the social actors whom they are introduced as the documentary unfolds.

Identification with figures on screen can get us to conspire with the filmmakers in surrendering our disbelief.

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The documentary often combines the interview voice overs with the footage of the archive police interviews. The voice over features a description of the interview process and the different unethical tactics used by the police. For example in episode three 'A Public Apology' the police tell the suspect that he was drunk and can't remember him committing a murder which ultimately gets him to confess.

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2.a. We are encouraged by the filmmaker to look at the different methods the detectives used to get the confessions.

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2.a. We are encouraged by the filmmaker to look at the different methods the detectives used to get the confessions.

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In episodes True East Part One & Two the use of a sting operation to get the confession is heavily involved in the narrative, using the archive footage taken as evidence by the police.
"Virtually every aspect of that style is designed to persuade us that the film makers were there, and that, in viewing the historical world through transparent images, we have shared their experience."
Realism and documentary - Kilborn, Richard & Izod, John (1997) .  p.p.37

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1. Archive Footage - Police interviews, news reports, evidence used in their respective cases and trials.

2. Interviews with people involved e.g. Jurors, Prosecutor, Experts, Friends of the convicted and the convicted. - Combined with commentary at times behind the camera from the filmmakers, this is used as the documentary's voice-over.

3. Testimony - from the convicted and professionals on the scene e.g firefighters.

4. Re-enactments - Filling in information where the interviews and archive footage couldn't.

5. Crime scene and  autopsy photographs.

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Voice over (the filmmakers asking questions to interviewee) is questioning and uncertain rather than didactic.

Relies on suggestion rather than fact.

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Does not use continuity editing.

Stresses the mood and tone.

Does not seek to persuade

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The Confession Tapes presents six cases of possible false confessions leading to murder convictions. However the documentary doesn't try to prove the innocence of the different people convicted but how the police or detectives on cases use different tactics to the get confessions.
The documentary takes the modes of Poetic and Reflexive.

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This true crime documentary series investigates cases where people convicted of murder claim their confessions were coerced, involuntary or false. at Netflix!