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2. Narration
0 Documentaries typically feature a narrator, enabling
the audience to listen to an authoritative voice who will
aid their understanding and plot information across
the film. The most common is the ‘voice of God’ of the
‘non-character voice’ which is anonymous and tells the
audience the story.
0 Many TV documentaries, such as Who do you think you
are and Big Brother feature a familiar voice which
produces a level of trust in which the audience can
listen to. The conventional voice-over will be a
masculine, male voice but in more recent
documentaries, female voice-overs are becoming
increasingly apparent. For our documentary, we intend
to feature a female voice over for this specific reason.

3. Different types of narration…
0 Rhetorical: Presenting an argument to persuade the
audience to adopt a specific opinion. Persuasive
techniques are used to make the audience want to act
on this.
0 Storytelling: Presents a story of typically a real life
situation, about people and places.
0 Categorical: Information is told categorically.