• Visual Language Features / Cinematic Techniques

  • Archival Footage
  • Actuality Footage
  • Background Information
  • B-roll Footage
  • Central Problems / Conflict
  • Choice of Approach
  • Choice of Subject
  • Cinema Verite
  • Documents
  • Commentator/maker of documentary on screen
  • Constructed footage
  • Direct address to the viewer
  • Diegetic Sound
  • Editing
  • Establishing shots
  • Expert Opinion
  • Focaliser
  • Graphics
  • Hand-held Camera
  • Interviews (Head and shoulders / Talking Heads)
  • Montage
  • Non-Diegetic Sound
  • Post production notes
  • Reconstructed footage (a.k.a Re-enactment / Dramatization)
  • Selection of detail (a.k.a Selective Editing)
  • “Voice of God”
  • “Voice of Authority”
  • Voice-over/narration/presenter
  • Vox Populi or vox-pop (”Voice of the people”)
  • Archival Footage

  • Interviews

  • Montage

  • Voice-Over

  • Visual Language Features \ Cinematic Techniques

  • Selection of Detail (Omition of certain stuff)

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