1. We also used a voice over in our documentary, we made
sure that our voice over was very persuading and
influenced the audience into the concept of recycling their
clothes, we gave the audience some statistics and facts by
using the voice over, something that would have been
difficult if we hadn't have done this.
Almost every other documentary out there has a voice over
(I have studied a documentary previously that doesn’t have
a voice over, it is further down in my blog), and these are
usually called ‘Voice of God’ type voice over’s because they
are powerful and influencing.
We decided to follow the forms and conventions by doing
this so that our documentary wasn’t purely interviews and
background music, this made it more interesting for the
viewer.

2. We used archive footage from YouTube near the end of our
five minute documentary, we did this because we thought
that it was good to add a different type of footage than we
already had and it made everything more interesting and
different.
The archive footage that we chose to use was in HD quality,
so it didn’t look shabby and unprofessional. We made sure
that we cut and edited the footage so that it was perfectly
timed and that it didn't go over the limit of how much
footage we could obtain from YouTube.
Many other documentaries usually do this to add some
variety so it wasn’t anything different from the normal
conventions of everyday documentaries.

3. We used B-Roll footage for the intro of the documentary, we did this so that the
voice over was able to introduce the concept of recycling clothes, we chose the
relevant B-Roll to put in the opening.
We used a programme called ‘Screencast-o-Matic’ to record a sequence from
the internet, we recorded on websites such as Topshop, Oxfam, COW vintage
and a few other high street and vintage websites.
Whilst the audience is seeing this footage, the voice over in the background is
giving the audience some facts and figures about recycling your clothes and the
effects.
This may have challenged the normal conventions because we have never
previously seen a documentary that has done this.