The document summarizes 3 documentaries: My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding about the traditions of Roma communities in Britain; Supersize vs Superskinny about 2 people with extreme weights swapping diets; and One Born Every Minute showing footage from a labour ward to give viewers insight into childbirth. Key conventions discussed include voiceovers, interviews, and establishing shots. The document also notes forms like score music, editing techniques and camera shots used in documentaries.

1. Introduction to Documentary
Assignment 2
By Sanel Homer

2. 3 Documentaries I Will be looking at
• My Big Fat Wedding
• Supersize vs Superskinny
• One Born Every Minute

3. My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings is a British
documentary series broadcast on
channel 4, looking at the world of Roma
(gypsies) and Irish Travellers in Britain
today.
The film follows various families, as they
discuss their traditions and values in
their small community.

4. What I Like About It
•Instead of just hearing about the
negative side about Gypsy. I can see
there point of view and see how they
actually live their lives and see that
their our positive things about being
Gypsy.
•I get to learn about their tradition
•It gave me a stronger understanding of
their community

5. Conventions
Conventions Definition Example
Voiceover is a production technique where a N/A
voice that is not part of the narrative
Real Life setting natural setting essentially means that
you are simply observing your
subjects in their "real life"
environments.
Establishing Shot An establishing shot in filmmaking
and television production sets up, or
establishes the context for a scene by
showing the relationship between its
important figures and objects

6. Forms
Forms Definition Example
score music Background music N/A
fast-paced editing Editing that is cut very fast to move
on to the next topic
Voiceover is a production technique where a N/A
voice that is not part of the
narrative

7. Supersize vs Superskinny
Supersize vs. Superskinny is a British
television programme on Channel 4 that
features information about dieting and
extreme eating lifestyles.
Its about two extreme eaters - one very
overweight and the other severely
underweight - swap diets in an attempt to
change the way they view food and eating.

8. What I Like About It
It actually show how important some
foods can affect your body at a extreme
weight.
It makes you understand what these
food do to our body and think about
they way we eat
Shows us different types of way to eat
healthy at a limit instead of starving
yourself or gaining weight

9. Conventions
Conventions Definition Example
Statistic is the study of the collection,
organization, analysis, and
interpretation of data
Interviews Conversation between two people
are asked by the interviewer to
obtain information from the
interviewee.
Supporting Images Images to support what they are
talking about
Font is traditionally defined as a
quantity of sorts composing a
complete character set of a
single size and style of a
particular typeface.

10. Forms
Forms Definition Example
score music Background music N/A
Zoom make the image of something or
someone appear much larger and
nearer, or much smaller and further
away
Voiceover is a production technique where a N/A
voice that is not part of the
narrative

11. One Born Every Minute
One Born Every Minute is a British
reality television programme which
shows selected footage from inside
a labour ward, the area in a hospital
where childbirth occurs.
It gives parents-to-be (or anyone
thinking of having children) a unique
inside view of what it is really like
when life begins

12. What I Like About It
• You can actually see what the
women are going through
• It shows the planning stage
before giving birth
• And it gives people who are
planning to have kids more of
a knowledge of what happens
when the baby is born

13. Conventions
Conventions Definition Example
Statistic is the study of the collection,
organization, analysis, and
interpretation of data
Interviews Conversation between two people
are asked by the interviewer to
obtain information from the
interviewee.
Supporting Images Images to support what they are
talking about

14. Forms
Forms Definition Example
score music Background music N/A
Full shot Shows the subject fully, from
head to toe
Close-up shot A certain feature or part of the
subject takes up the whole
frame
Voiceover voiceover to explain the purpose of N/A
the show.