background on the form of a documentary

 Briliantio.com -Documentaries are non-fictional motion pictures that aim to document reality for educational or historical purposes.Narration plays a crucial role in documentaries by setting the stage, explaining and filling in missing pieces, creating empathy, and influencing perception.Interviews provide firsthand accounts and expert opinions, and their selection and preparation are essential for valuable content.Real-life situations in documentaries enhance credibility, increase audience engagement, and evoke emotional responses.

In documentaries, narration is critical for guiding viewers through the story and providing context. As you analyse a documentary, understanding how narrative persuasion works through voice over usage is important.Naratio  is very important because it gives the audience a sense of pace and time and fills in missing pieces that may have not been shown in clips,it could also be used to persuade depending on the tone of it,and it may create emoathy towards the person on it.

Another very important thing used in documentaries are interviews.They give a first hand accounts of events that the docuemnatry is based on and they therefore expand the views knowledge.However interviews take a lot of effort due to the need for research and the need to make the person answering as comfortable as possible .

Real life situations are also very important to provide story telling and aid authenticity.They help to increase audience engagement as they cause real emotion .

Cinematography is also very important as there are methods done to focus the viewers attention on certain elements.For example archival footage may be used as it causes nostalgia and seems more credible.