What conventions have I broken?

In our documentary our voice over isn’t an authorative voice. We didn’t want it to be commanding and to feed you strong facts, the documentary is very open and allows people to have their own opinion on Fortune telling and the people involved.

The only text we’ve used is a title saying Tea Leaves. Most documentaries have large amounts of text stating location, time and interviewee, we never did that during our editing process.

The majority of documentaries I've studied have featured re-constructions, our documentary isn’t like that. We wanted to keep it simple but effective, we didn’t go into any specific story deep enough to create a re-construction.

Hunting Britain's Most Wanted• http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hunting-britains-most-wanted/4od

Hunting Britain's Most wanted features several codes and conventions. The documentary has a strong and local narrator, the voice isn’t authorative but it does grab your attention. This is also breaking a convention though, most narrators are well spoken and feed you opinions but this documentary is fly on the wall, you can make and decide how you feel about it.

Text appears with the time and location through out the documentary, text is a convention for documentaries.

The devil made me do itThe devil made me do it is about the murder of a nun in Italy. There’s a lot of archive in this documentary, most of it features Mansen during his world tour. The documentary features a women as narrator, she talks sharply about the murder case and is very authorative.

The Tomb Raider video game documentary follows most of the codes and conventions there are.They use text several times throughout.There is a voice over throughout the documentary.There is a large amount of archive used in this documentary from the tomb raider movie and from magazine clippings.

Tomb Raider

Crystal Meth

This documentary had a lot of footage from police evidence and cctv. It’s a partipatory documentary and you see the crew talking and interviewing people affected by crystal meth.

MeatloafThe Meatloaf Documentary gives you an in depth look into the rise and fall off Meatloaf’s career and you also get an in depth behind the scene look at the creating process for his album Bat Out of hell 2 and several minutes of footage from his music video for his first single to be released of it.