Documentaries and conventions
- 1. By: By: Charlotte Charlotte Jamie Jamie Karen Karen
- 3. Actuality Actuality as a way to have a fly on the wall effect, which allows to be filming and having the person act normally without scripts for genuine reactions .
- 4. Voiceover • The voice-over in a documentary is to guide the viewers what is happening, they’re the ones who explains a situation and offers opinions, but also ask the viewer questions that will leave them to reflect on.
- 5. Exposition • Uses rhetoric and passes on information in order to persuade the viewer to change their lifestyle for the better. • Narration is to guide it’s role is very important as it guides the person watching it. For example Charlotte was our objective voice over for the whole documentary. • Narration I find must have a sense of structure of a problem, pros and cons and then solution. This is commonly used as a method of explaining about a documentary’s content.
- 6. Interviews • The interview is a common used in documentaries as they allow general people and experts give their side of the argument that has their own opinion and facts. • The interviewer answers the questions and expanding upon it, people normally believes what they say depending on the account they give. • Interviews with the general public are known as ‘Vox pops’.
- 7. Archival footage • These footages are using materials from the internet, for example if you need a shot of farms or riots or television advertise, it’s much easier to get it from the internet.