Documentary films aim to present factual information to viewers in an objective manner. They can preserve important events, persuade audiences, analyze topics, and explore issues to enlighten viewers. Documentaries employ techniques like visuals, archive footage, interviews, voiceovers, and vox pops to both entertain and inform audiences about social, political, and historical subjects.

1. Documentary
Research

2. DEFINTION
DOCUMENTARY:
• 1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents.
• 2. Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional
matter, as in a book or film.
• 3. A work, such as a film or television program, presenting
political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative
manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews
accompanied by narration.

3. PURPOSE OF A DOCUMENTARY
• Preserve
• Persuade
• Analyse
• Express
• Discuss
• Explore
• Intervene
• Enlighten

4. DOCUMENTARY CODES AND
CONVENTIONS
• Visuals – the use of animations and graphics to visually entertain
and inform the audience.
• Archive Material – the use of stock and background footage, used
as cutaways and can give evidence to support our views. (This
includes extracts from TV, newspapers and advertisements.)
• Interviews – The mise-en-scene of the interviews is important and
the questions need to relate to the topic. Interviews help get advice
from experts relating the to the topic.
• Voiceovers – this matches the visuals and are a way of informing
the audience.
• Vox Pops – asking a quick question to a member of the public.