Documentary Conventions:


Expository:

Expository is a word that means to be intended to find out information or to describe something. This can be on documentaries with people such as Ross Kemp, Danny Dyer etc.


Observervational:

Observational documentaries are when they have no voice over, so the camera men just record things that happen in front of them so you can interpret what happens in your own way so nothing will influence you.

Interactive:

Interactive is where if you are watching a documentary online and there will be additions to the documentary where you can collect data from hyperlinks with things such as pictures, text, a separate video to get information on a certain part of the documentary.


Reflexive:

Reflexive documentaries are where they express the nature of the documentary by using things such as voiceovers to describe what is happening at a certain scene, re-creational scene's to give more detail on the matter without actually harming anybody in the process.


Performative:

Performative documentaires are where the director usually involves the audience. They do this by going out to real life people off the streets and involving them in the conversations and the debates on the scenario


Realism:

Realism documentaries are about telling the truth, what the documentaries entail are what everybodys situatuions inside of this. They have these types of documentaries for people who want to find out information on the subject.

Dramatization:

  Dramatization documentaries are ususally the ones which have re-creational videos on how the subject matter unfolds, without anybody getting hurt in the prosess.