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The document discusses conventions and modes of documentary filmmaking. Conventions include using a voiceover to provide context and persuade viewers, showing actual footage to allow viewers to witness real events firsthand, and interviewing experts to demonstrate an issue from a professional perspective. Modes include observational documentaries that show real situations without interviews for realism, and reflective documentaries that highlight a familiar issue and encourage agreement through a youth's perspective and discussions.
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The document outlines several conventions that will be used in a documentary film, including conducting interviews with experts to take a participatory approach, using reflective techniques to encourage the audience to see an issue from a new perspective, and employing observational methods to show real events. A voiceover will provide authoritative facts and context. Non-diegetic sounds will enhance mood and pacing, while diegetic sounds allow the audience to hear dialogue. Real footage and titles will authenticate the experience and orient viewers.
What is a documentary
A documentary is a film, television, or radio program that provides a factual report on a particular subject using original documents, pictures, or interviews with people involved in real events. Good documentaries utilize voiceovers, real footage, interviews with experts, titles, sound, visual elements, and different modes like being reflexive by acknowledging the filmmaker's presence, being observational by documenting events as they unfold unseen, being expository by analyzing and arguing a perspective, or being participatory by engaging with subjects. Documentaries come in different types depending on the filmmaker's role and approach.
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Our documentary examines the rising costs of childcare and free childcare for under two's in the UK. We will film interviews with nursery staff, parents, and experts to get different perspectives on these issues. The documentary will air on Channel 4 at 9pm, as this time slot typically attracts audiences interested in childcare programs. An off-screen voiceover will be used to provide commentary and context throughout the documentary.
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Codes and conventions are the stylistic elements and production techniques that define different types of media programs. Technical codes refer to the use of equipment like camera work, while symbolic codes involve elements like character emotions that cannot be seen. Conventions are generally accepted practices within a genre, such as using experts in news programs. Factual news programs employ conventions like newsreaders, field reporters, expert interviews, footage of events, and voiceovers to efficiently inform viewers.
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Codes create meaning in different mediums and genres, such as documentaries. Conventions are expectations of genres. Documentaries often feature a presenter, interviews with experts, multiple camera angles, locations, and reconstructions. They also use actual footage, archived footage, background music, and voiceovers to provide facts and opinions on topics.
Documentary styles
There are several types of documentaries:
- Poetic documentaries highlight sentimental aspects of people's lives through camera shots, music, and editing to develop mood.
- Observational documentaries appear to film events as they unfold without interfering, leaving audiences to draw their own conclusions without narration.
- Expository documentaries talk directly to viewers, often with an author's voiceover.
- Participatory documentaries imitate the approach of participant observation where the filmmaker is involved.
- Reflexive documentaries acknowledge the filmmaker's presence and provide narrative about how the film was constructed.
Documentary Modes
The document discusses various documentary modes and techniques that can be used when creating a documentary film. It notes that documentaries aim to film important real-life events and issues to inform audiences and present different opinions. Specifically, the documentary being discussed will focus on issues related to child care costs and free child care for under two year olds. It will involve gathering footage and conducting interviews at a nursery with staff and parents to get their perspectives and opinions on the topics.
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The document discusses different types of documentaries:
- Expository documentaries use a narrator to explain footage and present an argument.
- Observational documentaries simply observe events and allow viewers to draw their own conclusions.
- Interactive documentaries involve direct interaction between filmmaker and subject, with the filmmaker becoming part of the filmed events.
- Reflexive documentaries expose the filmmaking process and editing to acknowledge its subjective nature.
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The document outlines several conventions that will be used in a documentary film, including conducting interviews with experts to take a participatory approach, using reflective techniques to encourage the audience to see an issue from a new perspective, and employing observational methods to show real events. A voiceover will provide authoritative facts and context. Non-diegetic sounds will enhance mood and pacing, while diegetic sounds allow the audience to hear dialogue. Real footage and titles will authenticate the experience and orient viewers.
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A documentary is a film, television, or radio program that provides a factual report on a particular subject using original documents, pictures, or interviews with people involved in real events. Good documentaries utilize voiceovers, real footage, interviews with experts, titles, sound, visual elements, and different modes like being reflexive by acknowledging the filmmaker's presence, being observational by documenting events as they unfold unseen, being expository by analyzing and arguing a perspective, or being participatory by engaging with subjects. Documentaries come in different types depending on the filmmaker's role and approach.
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Codes and conventions are the stylistic elements and production techniques that define different types of media programs. Technical codes refer to the use of equipment like camera work, while symbolic codes involve elements like character emotions that cannot be seen. Conventions are generally accepted practices within a genre, such as using experts in news programs. Factual news programs employ conventions like newsreaders, field reporters, expert interviews, footage of events, and voiceovers to efficiently inform viewers.
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Codes create meaning in different mediums and genres, such as documentaries. Conventions are expectations of genres. Documentaries often feature a presenter, interviews with experts, multiple camera angles, locations, and reconstructions. They also use actual footage, archived footage, background music, and voiceovers to provide facts and opinions on topics.
Documentary styles
There are several types of documentaries:
- Poetic documentaries highlight sentimental aspects of people's lives through camera shots, music, and editing to develop mood.
- Observational documentaries appear to film events as they unfold without interfering, leaving audiences to draw their own conclusions without narration.
- Expository documentaries talk directly to viewers, often with an author's voiceover.
- Participatory documentaries imitate the approach of participant observation where the filmmaker is involved.
- Reflexive documentaries acknowledge the filmmaker's presence and provide narrative about how the film was constructed.
Documentary Modes
The document discusses various documentary modes and techniques that can be used when creating a documentary film. It notes that documentaries aim to film important real-life events and issues to inform audiences and present different opinions. Specifically, the documentary being discussed will focus on issues related to child care costs and free child care for under two year olds. It will involve gathering footage and conducting interviews at a nursery with staff and parents to get their perspectives and opinions on the topics.
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The document discusses different types of documentaries:
- Expository documentaries use a narrator to explain footage and present an argument.
- Observational documentaries simply observe events and allow viewers to draw their own conclusions.
- Interactive documentaries involve direct interaction between filmmaker and subject, with the filmmaker becoming part of the filmed events.
- Reflexive documentaries expose the filmmaking process and editing to acknowledge its subjective nature.
Codes and Conventions of documentaries
This document discusses conventions of documentary and single camera production. It defines a documentary as a recording of actual events based on people's perspectives or facts. Key conventions include using actual footage, voiceovers, interviews, and text inserts. It also discusses narrative structures like linear, non-linear, and open/closed endings. For single camera production, it notes that one camera is used at a time, allowing flexibility in shots and lighting but requiring more editing. Technical aspects like camerawork, lighting, sound, and scripting are also covered.
Codes and Conventions of a Documentary
This document summarizes key conventions of documentary films. It discusses the common use of voiceovers to narrate events, the emphasis on featuring real footage and interviews, and the importance of technical elements like lighting and sound to enhance a sense of realism for viewers. Editing techniques are also addressed, such as the use of titles, transitions between scenes, and different camera shots to frame interviews.
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The document discusses various techniques used in broadcasting news and their impact on audiences, including:
- Studio newsreaders who dress formally and maintain serious facial expressions impact audiences by appearing authoritative.
- Field reporters and presenters should dress professionally but more casually than newsreaders.
- Interviews provide different perspectives beyond just the media's view and can feature victims or perpetrators.
- Experts and witnesses increase believability, with witnesses providing first-hand accounts and experts validating topics.
- Using facts, statistics, and multiple opinions allows audiences to form their own conclusions.
Conventions of Factual Programs and Documentaries
This document outlines several conventions of factual television programs and documentaries. It discusses the roles of anchor/newsreaders and field reporters in factual programs, as well as conventions like linking to other studios, addressing the viewer, and using interviews and footage. For documentaries specifically, it notes the use of handheld cameras, narrative voiceovers, vox pops, archive materials, and creative editing. Overall, the document provides an overview of common techniques used in factual television programming to inform audiences and tell true stories.
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This document discusses documentary films and provides context on the genre. It covers several key points:
1) Documentary films aim to show "reality" but are in fact constructed versions of reality that reflect the filmmaker's point of view.
2) The genre has evolved over time, from early films that simply recorded events to styles like direct cinema in the 1960s that used handheld cameras and interviews.
3) Documentaries transform reality through choices like editing, narrative structure, and how information is presented verbally or visually. The end product reflects an interpretation of events rather than a simple recording of them.
Documentary Theory
Documentaries aim to inform audiences about factual subjects using real footage and interviews. Documentary film began in 1895 with the Lumiere brothers and evolved with Nanook of the North in 1922, which was the first feature-length factual film. There are five key elements to documentaries: observation, interviews, dramatization, mise en scene, and exposition. These elements such as observation use unseen cameras to make audiences feel like eyewitnesses, while interviews provide different opinions to support or contrast observations.
Documentary Conventions
The document describes different types of documentary formats including expository, observational, reflexive, participatory, and performative documentaries. It also discusses documentary realism, dramatization, narrativization, news reporting formats like studio newsreaders and field reporters, and techniques used in news reporting like linking to other studios, addressing viewers, interviewing, using experts and witnesses, report structure, and incorporating actual footage.
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Documentary Overview
This document provides an overview of key concepts in documentary film studies. It defines documentary film as the study of film language and how it relates to capturing reality. It discusses documentary filmmaker techniques like selection and construction that influence representation of real events. It also presents common exam questions on topics like whether documentaries can truly capture reality and if they are objectively constructed. Additionally, it outlines various modes of documentary like poetic, expository, observational, and reflexive. Finally, it discusses how representation in documentaries is mediated and how that representation may differ from reality.
Types of documentries
A documentary aims to inform and educate audiences using factual information and evidence presented through various techniques such as interviews, observations, archival footage, and narration. Key purposes are to explain past events, gain understanding of topics, and potentially entertain. John Grierson coined the term "documentary" in the 1930s to describe the creative treatment of actuality or non-fiction subjects.
The 6 modes of documentary
Bill Nichols proposed that there are 6 documentary modes: expository, observational, participatory, performative, reflexive, and poetic. These modes distinguish different styles of documentary based on their conventions and traits. The expository mode aims to put forward an argument and convince the audience through on-screen evidence. The observational mode films natural events without intrusion or presenter participation. The participatory mode heavily features the filmmaker's involvement through interviews and provocations.
Codes and Conventions of a Documentary
The document outlines several codes and conventions commonly used in documentaries. Voiceovers are used to establish authority and perspective on a topic. Interviews authenticate views and sometimes disagree with the message. Text is used to provide context through labels and dates. "Real" footage aims to present events as factual to viewers. Music bridges scenes and conveys meaning. Visual elements like mise-en-scene and props aim to represent subjects accurately. Archive media is included when own footage was unavailable. The document then lists several documentaries in different genres the author has watched to demonstrate knowledge of the form.
Documentary convision
The document outlines various conventions used in documentaries. It discusses how documentaries aim to represent reality through narrative and perspective. Key conventions explained include using exposition at the beginning to introduce topics, voiceovers from the filmmaker for commentary and explanation, interviews on or off screen to provide different perspectives, archival footage as primary evidence from the past, visual codes to establish realism, titles and text for information, and reconstruction or reenactment of events.
Style and Genre
The document discusses various styles and genres of documentary filmmaking. It outlines different documentary conventions like interview styles, narration, archival footage, and reconstructing historical events. Some common documentary styles are observational, propaganda/advocacy, personal journey, using archive footage, drama, examining social issues, comedy, and essay. Each style has defining characteristics like the filmmaker's level of involvement, perspective presented, use of reenactments, and goal of informing versus influencing audiences. Documentaries take influence from both the subject matter and filmmaking techniques employed by the director.
Documentaries types
A documentary aims to document and inform audiences about aspects of reality. John Grierson first coined the term "documentary" to refer to the creative treatment of actuality. There are several types of documentaries including fully narrated documentaries which use voiceover narration to help audiences understand events, mixed documentaries which use interviews and archived footage to advance an argument, and self-reflexive documentaries where subjects acknowledge the camera. Key features of documentaries include interviews with experts, observational footage, dramatizations of real events, and mise-en-scene techniques to frame shots effectively and support the documentary's argument.
Codes and conventions of documentaries
The document analyzes the main features and conventions of documentaries based on watching 3 different documentaries. It discusses several documentary techniques including voiceovers to describe footage, interviews to gain different perspectives, use of music to influence audience perception, inclusion of real footage without actors, and subtitles or reconstructions when direct footage is unavailable. The purpose is to present the key elements of documentaries to the audience.
Styles of Documentary
The document outlines six styles or modes of documentary film as developed by theorist Bill Nichols: poetic, observational, reflexive, expository, participatory, and performative. Each style is defined by its particular traits, conventions used, and relationship to subject matter. For example, a poetic documentary emphasizes personal expression through techniques like music and camera work, while an observational documentary aims to be a neutral, fly-on-the-wall perspective.
Types of Documentary
Documentaries can take various forms and serve different purposes. They aim to both document information to inform audiences as well as entertain them. There are six main types of documentaries: docudrama, which reenacts real events; fly on the wall, which observes without participants' awareness; mixed, combining elements like interviews; fully narrated, using voiceover; docusoap, following people's lives; and self-reflexive, acknowledging the filmmaking process. Examples are provided for each type.
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The document analyzes various codes and conventions commonly found in documentary films. It discusses the use of voiceovers, narration to tell a story; inclusion of real footage from events being documented rather than dramatization; interviews that allow people involved to speak directly about their experiences; incorporation of text, dates and other information; addition of sound effects or music to set mood; and techniques like shaky camerawork and ambient sound that aim to enhance realism. The document also provides examples of different modes documentaries can take, such as expository, observational, participatory, and reflexive styles. Overall, it offers an overview of techniques and approaches used in documentaries to inform audiences while achieving varying levels of objectivity or realism.
Modes of documentaries
The document discusses different modes or styles of documentaries: reflexive, poetic, observational, expository, and participatory. Reflexive documentaries acknowledge the filmmaker's presence and influence on the documentary. Poetic documentaries emphasize personal aspects through music and editing. Observational documentaries follow subjects to observe events without interfering. Expository documentaries expose controversial topics through commentary. Participatory documentaries recognize the filmmaker impacts what they film.
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The proposed documentary will examine teenagers and social networks, using conventions like a voiceover and real footage filmed with natural lighting and sound. The target audience includes teenagers who can relate to the topic as well as adults to understand youth perspectives, as adults often fear but know less about the internet than teens. Scenes will show a variety of students from different backgrounds in schools and other locations, depicting teens using technology or hanging out based on their character. The documentary takes inspiration from current affairs shows, newspapers, magazines, and radio discussing social networks and teens. It will utilize camera techniques such as close-ups, midshots, cross-cutting, shallow focus, long shots, and fast forwarding.
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- Experts and witnesses increase believability, with witnesses providing first-hand accounts and experts validating topics.
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This document discusses documentary films and provides context on the genre. It covers several key points:
1) Documentary films aim to show "reality" but are in fact constructed versions of reality that reflect the filmmaker's point of view.
2) The genre has evolved over time, from early films that simply recorded events to styles like direct cinema in the 1960s that used handheld cameras and interviews.
3) Documentaries transform reality through choices like editing, narrative structure, and how information is presented verbally or visually. The end product reflects an interpretation of events rather than a simple recording of them.
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Documentaries aim to inform audiences about factual subjects using real footage and interviews. Documentary film began in 1895 with the Lumiere brothers and evolved with Nanook of the North in 1922, which was the first feature-length factual film. There are five key elements to documentaries: observation, interviews, dramatization, mise en scene, and exposition. These elements such as observation use unseen cameras to make audiences feel like eyewitnesses, while interviews provide different opinions to support or contrast observations.
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Bill Nichols proposed that there are 6 documentary modes: expository, observational, participatory, performative, reflexive, and poetic. These modes distinguish different styles of documentary based on their conventions and traits. The expository mode aims to put forward an argument and convince the audience through on-screen evidence. The observational mode films natural events without intrusion or presenter participation. The participatory mode heavily features the filmmaker's involvement through interviews and provocations.
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The document outlines several conventions for creating an effective documentary, including using a participatory mode with expert interviews, a reflective mode to encourage audience perspective-taking, and an observational mode to seem realistic. It recommends a confident voiceover to establish authority and convey serious issues. Non-diegetic sounds should enhance the flow and audience experience, while diegetic sounds allow hearing actual dialogue. Real footage and clear titles are suggested to immerse the audience in first-hand experiences and keep them oriented.
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The document discusses conventions that are commonly used in documentaries, including voiceovers, realism, interviews, montages, archival footage, sound, camerawork, and editing. It also covers different documentary styles such as expository, observational, reflexive, participatory, and performative. The conclusion indicates that the music documentary being created will conform to common conventions and integrate elements of observational and participatory styles to avoid being classified as one specific style.
Conventions of documentaries
The document discusses the key conventions used in documentaries. These conventions include exposition to introduce important themes, interviews that allow people to speak directly about events and give a sense of realism, voice-overs where the filmmaker comments directly to viewers, archival footage that shows historical events without additional filming, and reconstructions that act out events to provide factual information in a realistic way for viewers.
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Documentary films aim to present real events and footage to audiences. Some conventions include using handheld cameras to appear more realistic, natural sound and lighting, authoritative voiceovers, archive footage for authenticity, and interviews with experts. Visual elements like text, titles, and visual coding are used to convey information to viewers. There are different modes of documentary, including performative which uses the filmmaker as a participant, reflexive which focuses on the representation process, participatory which involves interviewing subjects, and expository which subordinates images to narration.
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This document discusses the key elements and conventions of documentaries. It notes that documentaries focus on factual elements through real footage and interviews to inform audiences. The document outlines different modes of documentaries, including expository, observational, and participatory. It states that the student's documentary will take a participatory approach involving interviews between the filmmaker and subjects. The conventions that will be used include real footage, interviews, and text to anchor and inform the audience.
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This document provides an introduction to documentary film conventions for year 11 students. It defines documentaries as films that tell real stories using real footage. Documentaries can inform, raise awareness, or convey opinions. Key conventions discussed include: exposition to engage viewers, a focaliser to guide viewers, voiceover narration to provide context, actual footage of events, archival footage from other sources, reconstructed dramatizations, and interviews of subjects. Footage types and the purpose of various sounds are also outlined. The document aims to explain documentary techniques used to construct and shape reality for audiences.
Documentary
A documentary is a film that documents or captures reality using real footage and evidence to reveal an unknown angle or perspective. Documentaries allow the public to share their views on important issues and events through interviews and footage of real people and places. They present an argument or case to help audiences learn something new, often about the past or unfamiliar present-day topics, using conventions like authoritative voiceovers, authenticated expert interviews, and on-screen text to provide context. Documentaries come in different styles like expository with narration, observational allowing footage to speak for itself, and reflexive acknowledging the filmmaking process.
Doc conventions
This document outlines various codes and conventions used in documentaries, including voiceovers, interviews, footage, sound, dramatization, exposition, visual coding, and gatekeeping. Voiceovers are unseen narrators that guide the audience, while interviews collect information from experts and the public. Footage includes archival, actuality, and background footage as well as reconstructions. Sound, dramatization, and exposition are used to engage audiences and explain concepts. Visual coding and mise-en-scene influence audience perceptions. Gatekeeping and editing construct a producer's version of reality.
Documentary conventions
Documentaries employ several techniques to convey information and persuade audiences. They use authoritative narration to establish credibility, interviews with experts to authenticate opinions, and interviews with witnesses to provide first-hand accounts. Captions are displayed to inform viewers of key details like dates and locations. Reconstructions with actors reenact events visually and use lighting, costuming, and sound design to set the mood and advance the narrative.
Documentary conventions
The document discusses documentary filmmaking conventions and styles. It outlines common techniques used in documentaries such as voiceovers, interviews, montages, archival footage, sound, camerawork, and editing. It also describes different documentary styles including expository, observational, reflexive, participatory, and performative styles. These styles vary in their level of impact on audiences, from swaying knowledge to celebrating subjectivity and evoking emotion.
Codes and Conventions of Factual Programming
The document discusses the codes and conventions of factual programming and news broadcasts. It outlines 5 types of factual programming - expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative documentaries - and describes their main conventions. It also discusses the roles and skills of news readers, their appearance, and typical elements of a news program like sets and anchors addressing the audience.
Different Modes of Documetaries
The document discusses the codes and conventions of factual programming and news broadcasts. It outlines 5 types of factual programming - expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative documentaries - and describes their conventions such as use of narration, interviews, and involvement of the filmmaker. It also discusses conventions of news broadcasts such as the role of news readers to research, write, and present news stories while addressing the audience and maintaining an emotionally detached demeanor. News readers are expected to have communication skills, work well under pressure, and dress appropriately for their role.
Documentary conventions
This document discusses different types of footage, narration, and interviews that are commonly used in documentaries. Actual footage shows real events as they are happening to make viewers feel like eyewitnesses. Voiceovers are normally used to explain the narrator's views and perspectives. Interviews with experts and the general public provide different opinions on the documentary's topic to present a range of perspectives. Archival footage and reconstructions are also discussed as techniques for authenticating arguments and recreating events.
Secrets of the shoplifters
The documentary examines shoplifting through CCTV footage of real shoplifting incidents. It uses interviews to get different perspectives on shoplifting from those affected. A voiceover from the filmmaker provides context and narration throughout, explaining the topic while footage is shown. Sound and lighting techniques are employed to build tension and convey the chaos of riots, with upbeat music at the opening and low key lighting emphasizing danger. Cinematography such as a low camera angle is used to make security guards appear powerful, reflecting their job authority.
Genre and theme ideas for my trailer
The document outlines several key conventions and ideas used in documentary films. It discusses how documentaries aim to record and inform viewers about real people and events through exposition, voiceovers, interviews, archived footage, visual cues, titles/text, and montages. These techniques are used to introduce topics, provide context and explanation, encourage viewers to learn more, and effectively tell the story in a way that makes it seem realistic.
Codes and conventions
A documentary uses various techniques to communicate meaning to an audience in a non-fictional way. It focuses on a single story or issue and has a clear narrative structure. Documentaries employ exposition at the beginning to introduce important themes. They also use dramatic segments, voiceovers from the filmmaker, and interviews to engage the viewer and present perspectives. Archival footage and visual coding, like interviewing a doctor in a hospital, aim for realism. Reconstructions can depict past events in a way that feels realistic to the viewer.
Evaluation - Question One
The document provides details about conventions used in documentaries that a group analyzed as part of a project to create the opening 5 minutes of their own documentary. It discusses conventions found in the documentary "Supersize Me" such as shot types, voiceovers, interviews, and archival footage. It then explains how the group's documentary uses, develops, or challenges these conventions, including using reconstructions, actuality footage, an expositional introduction, interviews, and archival footage. Specific examples are analyzed from "Supersize Me" and compared to techniques used in the group's own documentary.
Documentaries
This document summarizes key elements of documentary genres and narrative structures. It identifies three main documentary categories - realist, subjective, and formalist. It also outlines various codes and conventions used in documentaries, such as actuality footage, exposition, voice-overs, interviews, archival footage, and reconstructions. Finally, it discusses common narrative structures like beginning-middle-end, and types of narratives such as categorical, rhetorical, storytelling, and associational.
Documentary conventions 2
The document discusses various documentary conventions used to convey information and engage viewers:
Exposition introduces important themes at the beginning to create a first impression. Voiceovers allow filmmakers to directly comment. Interviews let subjects speak about events, either on or off-screen. Archival footage depicts historical events without additional filming. Visual coding, like interviewing a doctor in a hospital, aims to seem more realistic. Titles and text quickly convey information. Reconstructions recreate past events based on information to give viewers a sense of witnessing them. Montages order shots to indicate changes in time/place or link actions and words.
Conventions
Short films typically have 2-3 main characters to keep the plot understandable given their shorter length of 5-35 minutes. Documentaries also tend to focus on a limited number of characters to provide depth within their shorter format. The filmmakers plan to interview multiple professionals in the creative industries to challenge views of creativity. Their documentary will combine observational and expository styles to prove creativity means different things to different people while maintaining a cinematic feel. Conventions like voiceovers, sound effects, and documentary clips will be followed for the radio advertisement, while the film poster will challenge some conventions but maintain others like institutional information and taglines.
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Conventions of documentary
- 1. Conventions of documentary Voiceover: To tell the audience the facts and usually have an authoritative voice allowing the audience to think they are experts on a particular subject that the makers are passionate about. The voiceover often is persuadable for the audience to be persuaded on what they are showing is real and is a issue. Actual footage: To show the audience the real footage of the situation so its from a first hand experience and they get to witness the real events of the situation. Interviews with experts: To show the audience that there is concerns from the professionals viewpoint to prove that its an issue. Use of titles: To make the audience aware of events, locations, times and dates. Sound: Non-diegetic sound provides flow between scenes but helps to further influence audience at particular moments and diegetic sound allows the audience to see and hear what is happening.
- 2. Modes of Documentary Observational - Appears to show the real thing with no interviews just the real event of the situation. The characters in the footage may not be aware of the camera so it makes the footage more realistic so the audience see the realism of the situation and observe the events. We will be following the youth on several events they do to show the audience how the issue is raised.
- 3. Modes of Documentary Reflective – We will be highlighting a issue that the audience will be familiar with and encourage them to agree with a youth’s perspective of life on social networks, how they use it and how it may influence them in the real world. We will also have discussions with the youth to reveal their feelings on the issues surrounding them.