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 solving them. Expository documentaries aim to inform the viewer through commentary and facts.

1. Expository
BY CONNOR, DANIEL AND AARON

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=PLFp4v4wRLrbx6d
7WnVgsDRxbtmEVUOC3q&index=8
 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.