Analysing three different documentaries

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Planet Earth


This documentary was published on BBC1, with each episode being an hour long, with this documentary genre being about nature. The main way of this documentary being told is through the famous voice over of David Attenborough, which is the expository mode. This documentary has a balance of music and non diegetic voice overs and dietetic sounds of the nature. There is a massive sense of verisimilitude within these documentaries. It is a shocking yet eyeopening piece of television. The camera shots and movements are what is very extraordinary about these documentaries, to show the scale of animals, to shows the slow motions sequences, these are what show the realism of the episode.




Louis Theroux - Mothers on edge 


This documentary style is a participatory mode which again has 1 hour feature length episodes. The main use of sound in this documentary tends to be mainly diegetic, with some music. This is interesting in the way that being of all the noises happening on screen this gives a stronger sense of realism as everything you are seeing is real. The most often camera angles are mid shots as there tends to be a lot of conversations and interview type set ups as this is what his documentaries consist of. These documentaries are publishing on BBC2.




Amy 


This documentary was published as a one off film about the personal life of Amy Winehouse, this is different to the other two documentaries as this uses archive footage with lots fo different none diegetic voiceovers of many different people talking. The running time of this film is 2hours 8minutes, often using mid shots of single interviews of someone talking. Because of the use of archive footage the documentary creates a big sense of realism here.

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