2. - Actuality Footage
- Questions edited out during the interviews
- Graphics – mostly simple to illuminate what it happening
- Voice over anchors the meaning
- Simple cuts
- Eye line ¾ of a way up the screen
- The positioning of the interviewee is either the left or the right of the screen “looking into space”
- Non-diegetic sound to create a music bed/ meaning for the audience
- Single stranded
- Archive footage
- Cutaways which are usually relevant to the topic
- Vox Pop
- Chromakey / green screen
- Medium close up camera shot
- Experts providing evidence
- Range of interviews
- Exposition
- More than one point of view
- Reconstruction
- All based on factual evidence
- Pace of editing matches the build up or excitement of the documentary
- Narrative structure ends always a solid ending – however some may end with unclear ending so audience can make up own
mind.
- Always conflict
- Sound effects used to create a mood
- Evidence to make it more factual
- The title to the documentary has to be relevant to the topic
