Codes & Conventions of a documentary

• Interviews
• Narration
• Archive footage
• Actual footage
• Reconstructions
• Cutaways
• Credits
• Clear exposition
• Theme
• Observation
• Diegetic Sound
• Non diegetic sound
• Relevant mise-en-scene
• Alternative sides for interviewees
• Plain graphics
• Closer shots of more important people
• Location footage
• Facts
• Opinions
• Balanced views
• Influencing camera angles
• Montage
• Editing starts off fast then slows down
• Music bed
• Vox pops
• Linear narrative
• Match on action
• Conflict
• Evidence
• Relevant background
• Static camera
• Implicit question
• Sound effects
• Variety of camera angles
• Rule of thirds
• Continuity editing
• Dramatisation
• Experts used as evidence
• Ambient sounds
• Variety of interviews
• No full flow interviews
• Graphics at the bottom
• Clear narrative
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