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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real documentaries?Grace Walker
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Conventions of Most Documentaries• Actuality footage
• Voiceover
• Narrativisation
• Interview
• Text
• Sound
• Dramatization
• Archive footage
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• Location shooting
• Filming what I see – no involvement
• Long takes
• Diegetic sound
• No voiceover
• No interviews
• Subjects pretend they are not being filmed
Conventions of Observational
Documentaries
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How my documentary obeys the conventions of Observational documentaries • My documentary extract obeys the conventions
of observational documentaries as the shots have no involvement from me and they were filmed on location, not a set.
• Long takes were also used, and the subjects didn’t act in front of the camera, all the footage was real.
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How my documentary challenges the conventions of Observational documentaries • My documentary contains a ‘voice of God’ voiceover
which challenges the conventions of observational documentaries, but obeys the conventions of most documentaries as it is a convention of expository documentaries.
• My documentary extract also contains archive footage, which is not a typical convention of observational documentaries but is typical of most documentaries in general.
• The extract contains non-diegetic sound which challenges the observational conventions, but is a common feature of other documentaries.
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Overall, my documentary both obeys and challenges the conventions of observational documentaries, but
obeys the conventions of general documentaries.