UNIT 27 LO 2 Documentaries Expository These Documentaries

UNIT 27 LO 2 Documentaries

Expository • These Documentaries are a type in which it exposes a person or a subject / topic of some sort, It’s an original form of documentary style, one of four types… These documentaries normally have a voice over ( voice of god style ) or a commentator over the videos or pictures explaining the scene or story

Conventions of Expository Documentaries • These are the main conventions. . • • • A commentator Rhetorical Questions Facts Opinions Persuasive Techniques

The Appeal? • In these documentary's the commentator often speaks specifically to the audience • There also biographical, historical or talking about a certain event • They always inclue Footage, interviews or pictures exclusive to the documentary.

Channel 4’s Expository Documentaries • Channel 4 have made roughly 620 documentaries to current date in total. • They are on science, biographical, historical, health, nature, music and environmental

Backstairs Billy: The Queens Mum’s Butler • This documentary on William Tallon, the queens devoted servant. It shows videos and pictures and stories with William and the Queen, princess Diana and The queen mother. It’s mainly about the story of him going from living with the Royal Family to living in a flat hounded down by the press 24 / 7.

Observational Documentaries • The Documentary maker follows the person around to film there life and the events that occur • Equipment can be unprofessional hand held camera’s ect • There aren’t usually any formal interviews as such

MTV’S Teen Cribs • Originally aired exclusively to the MTV tv channel, it’s a reality / documentary show on wealthy teenagers who show you around there often extravagant or unique styled houses • Before this it was just called MTV Cribs in which it showed famous celebrity's houses.

• This shows classic signs of an observational documentary as it follows the person around the house, while the camera shows a lot of focus on the flashy items inside the house as well as out, interviews aren’t included but you do see the parents talking abit about the house

Techniques • Editing – Some of the scenes are speed up on less interesting parts of the house, and slowing down when It get’s to something to interesting to help emphasise the object or scene • Music – Music is played throughout making more interesting to watch

Big Brother • Big brother is a brilliant example of observational documentary’s as it is literally a reality show that observes how the people within the house often celebritys act when put into a house with a bunch of other people with no contact to the outside world all competing to win the prize.

Interactive Documentary • An interactive documentary is one that involves the documentary maker in the actual story of the documentary the most ovbious example of this is “supersize me” in which Morgan Spurlock filmed himself eating macdonalds for brekfast, lunch and dinner for 30 days straight and whenever he was asked if he wanted it to supersized me he had to say yes

• The audience enjoy these kind of documentary’s as it really shows the reality of it all. • A lot of people also are intrigued to keep watching this as it was set in episodes as they want to know how it ends.

Reflective Documentary • in many reflective films the filmmaker is a part of the film itself and can often be the main character • there is an obvious relationship between the filmmaker and the audience • it is ‘reflective’ in the sense that the documentary mirrors the art of documentarymaking itself

Louis Theroux • Louis Theroux's documentary’s are brilliant example of this, as it shows himself involved in the topic himself and shows a relationship of some sort between him and who he is filming and also his audience and he reflects the art of documentary within himself.

Peformative documentary • - this style is somewhat similar to the reflexive documentary style, but often involves a mix of many styles - performative films often raise questions of knowledge - performative documentaries try to demonstrate how understanding such personal knowledge can help us understand more general processes of society is a bit of a strange one, still trying to get my head around it!!

Biggie & Tupac • This a good example as it raises quite a lot of controversy and questions the knowledge and given facts by the media, it digs deeper into the story to find out the truth