2. FRAMING TECHNIQUES
• My final production conforms to the many conventions of documentary making. For
example in the final documentary we produced we stuck to regular framing techniques
where at all possible. Keeping the eye level at 3 quarters up the screen and making sure
that the interviewee was looking just off screen at the person conducting the interview, to
ensure that the person was not looking directly at the camera.
3. GRAPHICS
• On the interviews we tried to ensure that our graphics conformed to the codes and
conventions of regular documentary making. The name plates always appeared in the
lower third of the screen and appeared on the opposite side to the interviewee. The
opening sequence also stuck to short montage clips and the title of the documentary was
over laid onto this.
4. MISE EN SCENE
• The mise en scene we always tried to keep relevant to the documentary as is the case
with all documentary making. This can be seen when we had a cardboard background
interviewing a person who was phobic of cardboard. When it was not possible to have
relevant mise en scene, we interviewed that person on the green screen so we were able
to impose a relevant image behind that person, such as a dog for a person who feared
dogs.
5. VOICEOVER AND CUTAWAYS
• We made sure to have a relevant voiceover in our documentary to keep with the
conventions of documentaries having clear voice overs. We got a male man who had a
fairly deep voice in order to ensure it was fitting with the mood of our documentary.
• We ensured that we used cutaways that were relevant to the topic of our documentary,
such as heights, dogs, bananas as having irrelevant cutaways does not conform to
regular conventions and would not interest the viewer.
(Cutaway we used)
