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CONVENTIONS OF
DOCUMENTARIES
Hope O’Rourke
CONVENTIONS
1. A Documentary is to be truthful and non-biased
2. It should look at reality
3. Should report on something relevant with appropriate evidence
4. A reconstruction can be used in the absence of real footage
5. Topics can vary from; politics, religion and history
6. A narrator can be used
7. A documentary can be fictitious around an event
8. A 'Fly on the Wall' approach can be taken with no narrator
9. For effect a documentary can be dramatised
STYLES
1. Observational - Consists of an invisible camera and the audience is the
eye witness
2. Interview - Set to the rule of thirds. A spontaneous interview is called a
'Vox Pop'
3. Dramatisation - For effect or when no footage is available
4. Exposition, Description and Commentary Combined
5. Fully Narrated
6. Fly on the Wall
7. Self Reflected
8. Docudrama
DISNEYFICATION Barnett’s Theory
DISNEYFICTATION
1. Need to broadcast positive things
2. Clean instead of challenging society
3. Dumbed down, Safe for adverts, Cheap TV
4. Audiences are used to it
5. They have traditional conventions of narrative
6. Strong focus on conflict, characters, music and sound effects
7. Having a defined beginning, middle and end
DISNEYFICTATION
Beginning
Central Question
Action Footage
Middle
Case becomes Complicated
Conflict Strengthen
Arguments Offer an Alternative View
Show Evidence
End
Exposition should be Apparent
Resolve Views
Conflict between Different People
with Different Backgrounds
Reconstruction

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Conventions of documentaries

  • 2. CONVENTIONS 1. A Documentary is to be truthful and non-biased 2. It should look at reality 3. Should report on something relevant with appropriate evidence 4. A reconstruction can be used in the absence of real footage 5. Topics can vary from; politics, religion and history 6. A narrator can be used 7. A documentary can be fictitious around an event 8. A 'Fly on the Wall' approach can be taken with no narrator 9. For effect a documentary can be dramatised
  • 3. STYLES 1. Observational - Consists of an invisible camera and the audience is the eye witness 2. Interview - Set to the rule of thirds. A spontaneous interview is called a 'Vox Pop' 3. Dramatisation - For effect or when no footage is available 4. Exposition, Description and Commentary Combined 5. Fully Narrated 6. Fly on the Wall 7. Self Reflected 8. Docudrama
  • 5. DISNEYFICTATION 1. Need to broadcast positive things 2. Clean instead of challenging society 3. Dumbed down, Safe for adverts, Cheap TV 4. Audiences are used to it 5. They have traditional conventions of narrative 6. Strong focus on conflict, characters, music and sound effects 7. Having a defined beginning, middle and end
  • 6. DISNEYFICTATION Beginning Central Question Action Footage Middle Case becomes Complicated Conflict Strengthen Arguments Offer an Alternative View Show Evidence End Exposition should be Apparent Resolve Views Conflict between Different People with Different Backgrounds Reconstruction