Explain how product will affect its target audience

Documentary makers and their final products that are shown on television can manipulate the viewers reaction and feelings towards the documented issue. They can do this through many different approaches, by editing their captured footage in a way that only shows the negative aspects, for example I could show the steroid abuser only when angry and being aggressive without showing the reasons why or at other times when they are calm and friendly- this would lead to the audience believing that the person I have filmed an unfriendly and aggressive person only and would have no idea about their other personality traits. I had the power to portray my actor, as all documentary makers do, in the light I wished others to see him in. This manipulation of the individual is a mode of address that was met by myself in the making of the documentary, I portrayed the actor in a way in which they appeared very lonely because of the effects of the steroids and this is the effect I wanted to get across to the audience in the opening 5 minutes.

For my filming I realised that I would need an actor who appeared like they could be on steroids to make the product realistic to the main issue. I travelled to Hull to film a friend at university who fit this description and tried to get as much of the filming done as possible so that I would not have to make the long journey more times than necessary. After filming I linked my camera to the I-movie program and imported it all over and from then on edited my footage. I only had to return to Hull once to get more footage due to my planning being thorough.

Mise En scene-

During the planning stage of the production I carefully planned the mise en scene carefully so that I could give a clear representation of the individual being filmed. For the main interview scene I had the actor sat in front of an ‘Arnold Schwarzenneger’ poster from the film ‘The Terminator’, the reason for this was to portray the drug user in a very masculine light as would be the case of a stereotypical steroid abuser. Also I took some filming at the landmark in hull, the Humber Bridge. This was because I wanted to clearly show where the individual was being filmed and therefore where they were living to give an idea of their background and social status for the audience, therefore making the audience more actively involved in the program. I filmed at the local landmark due realising that other documentaries also tended use footage of where their own documentary issue was taking place. During the opening sequence of other documentaries I also noted that they had  lot of what appeared to be irrelevant footage, however this footage was just to set the scene and give the audience an idea of the settings of where the documentary was taking place and therefore filming of random objects, bearing relevance to the steroid abuser were included in the product.