Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Form of a Documentary.

After looking into a documentary from the website play value i found that they use a standard structure much like other documentraies do to get their arguement or story across.
I looked at a documentary regarding the way computer games controllers have developed over time, and found that obviously they begin with the oldest to newest controllers going through history to inform viewers.
Like other documentaries this one does not stray away from the point and is put together showing that the people featured in it have clearly done their research to back up what they are saying.
The documentary incluedes talking heads, clips from games and pictures of console controllers, which are all neccessary features for this type of documentary.

Monday, 7 September 2009

From Rogue to Fallout 3 a casual history of RPG's.

We have decided to study into the history of RPG's and put all that we have discovered into a documentary explaining on how RPG's have developed over time.
We have found so far that, in documentaries, specifically documentaries that focus on the subject to do with video games, we have found that they are very similar to any other standard documentary that we have viewed in the sense that they have talking heads and clips from the subject matter. In these documentaries we have found that they express their own personal views on matters regarding the subject and discuss how and why certain things have or haven’t happened in the subject. For example in the subject of gaming the short documentary of “the fall of Atari” has all of these features.
We will now continue to research into the gaming industry, also look into other documentaries to get hints on how they are filmed and what aspects are used in these documentaries.