Thursday 14 October 2010

Codes and Conventions of Documentaries

Interviews
• Facts and figures
• Always have a problem in the middle of the narrative structure
• Voice over’s
• Cut away shots
• Natural shots
• Sometimes reconstructions
• Evidence
• Eye line needs to be a third down
• Relevant mise-en-scene
• Music bed
• Sound effects are often added for dramatisation
• Opening titles
• Simple and sometimes formal graphics
• Experts are named
• No opposing questions
• Vox pops
• Archive footage
• Variety of different camera angles
• Exposition is made clear either at the start or throughout

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