Benefits Street
- Wide angle shots of the street
- The relationship between residents
- Voice over
- Conflicting opinions of the street
- Interviews
- Realistic perception of the way people live
Undateables
Documentaries:
Overall Codes and Conventions
- Each individual has a different physical or learning disability
- Representatives from dating agencies get information about each individual
- Different shots show the environment of each individual
- Facts
- Real Life
- Natural environments
- Opinions
- Educational
- Insight into other people’s lives
- Narrator/Presenter
- Vox pop
- Reconstructions
- Particular subject
- Interviewer
News:
Overall Codes and Conventions
Americas Next top Model & Celebrity Big Brother
Differences
- Different filming times
- Audience Participation
- Contestants have different goals
- The audience have different opinions/no opinions to start
Channel 5 News
Similarities
- Contestants go through challenges
- Contestants are gradually eliminated
- The audience make their own judgement of contestants
- News readers based in a Studio
- Field reporters
- Interviews
- Archive footage
- Witnesses
- Facts
- Current Events
- Brief insight into stories
- Non-Diegetic sound
- Presenters narrates over simple footage/images
- Opening sequence
BBC News & Channel 5 News
BBC News
Differences
- Channel 5 News is less serious
- Non-Diegetic sound
- The level of impact from the stories
Similarities
- Both have brief insights into the stories
- They have a news reader based in a studio
- They have Non-Diegetic sounds
- Brief insight into stories
- Non-Diegetic sound
- Opening title
- Details of Field Reporters
- Moving images behind the presenter
- Presenters narrates over footage
- Camera angles
Celebrity
Big Brother
- Narrator
- Challenges
- Audience Participation
- Non-Diegetic sound
- Live audience
- Long pauses to build suspense
Americas Next Top Model
Supersize VS Superskinny
Benefits Street & Undateables
Reality TV
Overall Codes and Conventions
Similarities
- Both shows give insights into people's lives
- Real life situations
- Both let the viewers reach their own conclusions on the subjects
- None diegetic music to build suspense
- Close up shots to show emotions
- Real life situations
- Judging
- Challenges
- Informative
- A montage of shots of obese and underweight people
- Juxtaposing the contestants in one shot
- Swapping their meals
- 'The shock effect'
- The food tubes
Differences
- More people sympathise with the Undateables than Benefit Street
- People who try and people who settle
- Winners and Losers
- Conflict
- Real opinions
- Colourful sets
- Presenters
- Challenges
- Comedy
- Action
- Unscripted
- Entertainment
- Audience Interactivity
The Codes and Conventions of Factual Programming