The document summarizes the production techniques used in a documentary. It discusses using a male narrator to avoid stereotypes, framing interviews on the left or right of screen in medium close up or close up shots, using cutaways to break up interview answers, and only including interview answers while editing out questions. Cut is the primary edit used to avoid distraction, and the only effect is a fade in and fade out of graphics. Music is used to set moods and backgrounds are chosen to be relevant to interview topics. Graphics include the name and relevance of the interviewee in two lines with consistent simple fonts and timing.

2. Throughout the
construction process we
followed all the codes and
conventions of the genre,
therefore we have not
challenged or developed
these conventions

3. • We used a male voiceover in our documentary because
we didn’t want to portray the stereotype that women
have more fears than men
• The narrator speaks in Standard English and the
narration also acts as glue holding the elements of the
documentary together to construct the narrative
• The narrator is of a relevant age to our target audience

4. The interviews are framed either to the left or right
of screen in either; medium close up, close up or big
close up, depending on the mise-en-scene
Our documentary Professional documentary

5. • Cutaways were used to break up interview answers
• A variety of camerawork was used and on still images
the camera zooms to make it more visually stimulating

6. • Cut is the main edit used in our
documentary so that it does not distract the
audience from the subject matter
• We have also used cutaways after each
question during an interview so that there
are no jump cuts
• No fancy editing effects were used that may
distract the audience, the only effect used
was the fade in and fade out of the graphics
• Fade to white is used after the title sequence
to make it more visually creative
• Questions from the interviews were edited
out so that we could only hear their answers

7. • Single strand
• Non-linear
• Music was used to create an atmosphere. For example
during the spider interviews we wanted it to come
across as scary so we used the exorcist theme song. We
also then used a Kings of Leon song so that it would be
suitable and enjoyable for the target audience

8. • Relevant to the topic. For example, for the spider interviews we
created a collage of spiders to make the background more
interesting and also we did it because they were filmed in
medium close up. For the fear of tall buildings, we filmed the
interviewee outside the largest Cathedral in England. Then for
the interview with the psychologist we just used a plain wall as
the background as he was filmed in big close-up

9. • There are two lines; the first is the name and the second is
the relevance to the topic
• First line is a bigger type size than second
• Simple fonts and colours are used and they are consistent
throughout the programme as well as the length of time they
are on screen
• Graphics on title sequence are more creative than the rest