2. These were used to show
subject’s name and
relation to the topic.
Always used in
professional
documentaries like „In
The Teeth of Jaws”

4. Graphics
Documentary have titles made in a conventional way and related to their topic. We
used our creativity and produced out title in stop motion using coffee beans.
For example, documentary about „Jaws” has big red letters connoted with danger
and blood related to the film.

5. Framing
Interviewees are situated on the
side and have their ‘space to
talk’. They should not look
directly into the camera but to
an interviewer who asks them
questions.
We used this convention in our
documentary. It is also presented
in „Freak Like Me”.
These sort of shots are described
as ‘talking head shots’

6. Interviews
Interviews are a vital
part of every
documentary. We
have used this
convention in our
documentary as well
with relevant mise
en scene (apart from
the interview with
the coffee worker).

7. Authority Figures
Authority figures are used in
documentaries to make them
more conviencing and factual.
We used this convention by
interviewing an NHS nurse in
her office so it looks
professional.
For example in „Meth Epidemic”
an expert is being interviewed
about drugs and environment
looks scientific just like in our
documentary.

8. Voiceover and Narrative
 Voiceover in most documentaries should be authorical.
 In our documentary the voiceover is both authorical and
enthusiastic about the topic so the audience gets excited.
 We also used the same voiceover in our radio trailer so
the whole product has its continuity.
 The narrative structure of our documentary is linear
because it starts at one point and reaches conclusion
instead of going back to the beginning like in „Devil
Made Me Do It”.

9. We have used voxpops in our documentary to give it more
conviencing style as opinion of general public matters to our
audience. They will be more likely to believe in facts presented in the
production and also identify with strangers in documentary (by identifying
with their views). Voxpops were also shown
in „Freak Like Me” to show audience
that people with weird habits and
obsessions are perfectly normal.

10. In one moment we adjusted speed
duration of a number of voxpops so
it looks like we actually asked
many people about coffee. This
makes the content more
conviencing to our viewers.

11. Cutaways
Various cutaways have been used in our
documentary to avoid jump cuts and add
visual stimuli for the audience. This is always
used in professional documentaries.
In our documentary we used relevant
cutaways when needed to show the connection
just like in „Freak Like Me”
In „Freak Like Me” when a
woman talks about squeezing
spots the audience is presented a
cutaway of spots and later – her
squeezing out herown spots. This
creates a connection between
what she says and what is being
presented by the director.

12. For example, when
the nurse was
talking about
teenagers and
coffee we presented
a teenage girl
waking up and
someone handing in
her a cup of coffee.

13. En
„In The Teeth of Jaws” the
director is presented with a
relevant mise en scene with
Jaws poster on the wall. This
reminds people what the
documentary is about.
We have used this convention in our
documentary by putting some coffee
related objects behind our interviewee –
the coffee worker who is in her uniform
with the Cafe Nero sign. We also filmed
the whole interview in the coffee shop
which is visible in the sequence. We also
filmed our voxpops in front of the Cafe
Nero coffee shop.

14. Montage Sequence
Usually montage sequences in documentaries show briefly in an energetic way what the
documentary is going to be about. We did this in our sequence however in a
minimalistic way as opposed to the montage sequence in „Freak Like Me”. We showed
the process of making coffee whereas in „Freak Like Me” Russell Kane presents habits in
a rather symbolic way, e.g. tidied up socks present an obsession with tidiness.