An expository documentary uses a voiceover narration to explain the images shown and provide context and perspective to the viewer. It is the most common documentary format, seen in nature and historical documentaries where information needs to be directly conveyed. Examples given are Bear Grylls' survival shows where he narrates his actions, and America's Most Wanted where unsolved crimes are described and the public is asked for help. Expository documentaries employ techniques like commentators, rhetorical questions, facts, and opinions to directly inform and sometimes persuade the audience.

1. Expository
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2. What Expository is
 A very traditional form of documentary in which an unseen speaker
performs a voiceover commentary that literally explains the images
that we are seeing. It is the form often associated with wild life or
historic documentaries, in which the viewer might feel in need of
information about what they are seeing.
 An expository documentary has a person narrating over the
documentary explaining what is going on to give the viewer a more
in-depth knowledge of what is going on.
 Expository documentaries are the most common type of
documentary, it addresses the viewer directly with voiceovers that
supply perspective and advance an argument.

3. Example
An example of a expository
documentary is America’s most
wanted. Other genre’s of expository
documentaries include: historic and
nature.

4. Bear Grylls: Man v Wild
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIG4TuVnvg
 He talks to the camera but also narrates as he describes what is
happening and what he has to do in that situation.
 Bear Grylls does survival documentaries so that if you was in that
situation you would know how to survive.
 He survives in the worst places and eats anything he can.

5. America’s Most Wanted
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CasNRUqT_t4&list=PLFp4v4wRLr
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 It is mostly narrated as they describe what is happening and what
crime is being done.
 America’s Most Wanted is where they go over how the people who
are Americas most wanted became that, usually through murders
and they then try to ask the public to help give information if they
know anything.

6. Conventions used for Expository.
 A commentator
 Rhetorical questions
 Facts
 Opinions
 Persuasive techniques
 In an expository documentary the commentator talks specifically to
the audience.
 They are often biographical, historical or talk about a certain event.