https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842 Notes on the Netflix documentary television series. en-us 2017-11-11 00:05:24 UTC 2026-01-04 05:39:22 UTC hello@padlet.com karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/205845014 2017-11-11 00:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/205845014 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/206025313 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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Does not use continuity editing. 

Stresses the mood and tone.

Does not seek to persuade

]]> 2017-11-29 14:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211405304 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211406278 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.]]> 2017-11-29 14:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211406278 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211428817

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

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. 

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

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

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. 

]]> 2017-11-29 15:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211434491 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211452897 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.]]> 2017-11-29 15:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211452897 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211470867 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

]]> 2017-11-29 16:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211470867 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211482348 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.]]> 2017-11-29 16:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211482348 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211501346 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]]> 2017-11-29 16:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211501346 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211910370 "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]]> 2017-11-30 15:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211910370 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211920797 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]]> 2017-11-30 16:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211920797 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211983921 Channel 5's Benefits Documentary Television Series and its representation of millions of people who are on benefits.]]> 2017-11-30 17:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211983921 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211985019 BBC'S Drugs Map of Britain Documentary Television Series and it's representation of drug users around the country.]]> 2017-11-30 17:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211985019 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211985808 ITV's Take Me Out Entertainment Series and it's representation of women and men in the dating scene.]]> 2017-11-30 17:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211985808 karlybabi7 https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211993652 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]]> 2017-11-30 18:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/karlybabi7/f1910p4jk842/wish/211993652