Codes and conventions of the documentary genre

• A variety of interviews
• ‘Voice of God’ narrator
• Archive footage
• Variety of camerawork
• Cutaways during the interviews
• Exposition in narrative structure
• Use graphics to identify the graphics
• Appropriate mise-en-scene
• Editing to create structure and conflict
• Non-diegetic music to match the action or to create atmosphere
• Vox pops
• Lighting should look natural