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Exposition is the use of factual information and opinions to persuade the viewer to believe what the film maker is trying to portray. We will implement facts and figures as inserts to back up what we are trying to document so the audience believe us.

The voiceover is commentary by the film maker. Using a voice over in our documentary will allow us to give information to the audience on our chosen topic. This is one of the main reasons why we will use a voice over on our documentary. The voice over will come across to the audience as someone with a lot of knowledge on the documentary and this will make the target audience believe the voice over. This is evidence of a voice over taken from the documentary on BBC called Africa narrated by David Attenborough.

Archival footage is material obtained from a film library. We will definitely use archival footage to add further information to make it interesting and less boring but also footage that we are unable to obtain ourselves.

Evidence of archival footage taken from Youtube.

An interview with an expert is used to authenticicate the views from the film makers as they are knowledgeable on which ever the topic of the documentary is. We will definitely use at least two experts to gain a better understanding on our topic but also they will help back our main point.A short video on an interview with an expert. Taken from Youtube.

Background music another word for Non-diegetic sound meaning music to provide atmosphere in the background of a documentary or film. We will use background music throughout the whole documentary to make it interesting and keep the audiences attention.

Text is words that appear on the screen to further explain something or introduce a person such as an expert. We will use captions on the screen to introduce our experts we interview and also display facts and figures relating to our topic.

Visual coding is things like mise en scene – props, make up etc. Visual coding will help in terms of making our documentary more believable, for example if we chose the topic Exam Stress we would use our college as the setting as this topic relates to colleges and schools. Furthermore, when we interview our experts we will definitely implement mise en scene such as the expert being in an office, this is very important as the audience will believe they are professionals and what they say is valid.

A vox pop is an opinion from members of the public which tend to be informal . We will aim to interview around 5 members of the public to get an understanding from the majority of society. When we record our vox pop we will make sure the interviewee isn't looking at the camera but directly at the interviewer as this is an important convention for a vox pop.

Vox pop questions taken from Youtube

An insert is something being filmed but is interrupted by an insert for a example a video clip. We will use inserts in our documentary to add detail and make it aesthetically interesting. For example when we interview the expert on the topic exam stress we could use inserts of the expert speaking with a student.

Statistics is collecting of factual evidence usually numerical form to back up a point. We will use stats in our documentary to add further evidence to back up our views.