Conventions of a Documentary

I have decided to research the conventions of a documentary so that I can meet these through my plans for my own production. This will allow me to make my documentary more professional and suitable for its genre and style. For this research, I am analysing the textbook 'Documentaries, Classroom Resources' by Jo Wilcock, published by Auteur. I have posted photos of my annotations of appropriate pages in the textbook where I have demonstrated how I plan to meet these conventions and details of other conventions which I need to consider.

From this research, I have learnt some conventional narrative, editing and style techniques from a reliable, modern and published source. I will use this research as a guide for my own production so that it will be a conventional documentary. I will also extend this research online to find the conventions of documentaries which Channel 4 produce, so that my product is appropriate for my exhibitor.