In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real documentaries?
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The document discusses the conventions of observational documentaries and how the filmmaker's documentary both follows and challenges some of these conventions. Observational documentaries typically involve filming subjects without involvement and using long takes without voiceovers or interviews. The documentary extract follows these conventions by filming on location with long takes and subjects unaware they are being filmed. However, it challenges conventions by including a voiceover, archive footage, and non-diegetic sound, techniques more common in general documentaries.
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- 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real documentaries? Grace Walker
- 2. Conventions of Most Documentaries • Actuality footage • Voiceover • Narrativisation • Interview • Text • Sound • Dramatization • Archive footage
- 3. • Location shooting • Filming what I see – no involvement • Long takes • Diegetic sound • No voiceover • No interviews • Subjects pretend they are not being filmed Conventions of Observational Documentaries
- 4. How my documentary obeys the conventions of Observational documentaries • My documentary extract obeys the conventions of observational documentaries as the shots have no involvement from me and they were filmed on location, not a set. • Long takes were also used, and the subjects didn’t act in front of the camera, all the footage was real.
- 5. How my documentary challenges the conventions of Observational documentaries • My documentary contains a ‘voice of God’ voiceover which challenges the conventions of observational documentaries, but obeys the conventions of most documentaries as it is a convention of expository documentaries. • My documentary extract also contains archive footage, which is not a typical convention of observational documentaries but is typical of most documentaries in general. • The extract contains non-diegetic sound which challenges the observational conventions, but is a common feature of other documentaries.
- 6. Overall, my documentary both obeys and challenges the conventions of observational documentaries, but obeys the conventions of general documentaries.