Codes and Conventions

Always have a problem in the middle of the narrative structure
Facts and figures
Voice over’sInterviews
Interviews
Always have a problem in the middle of the narrative structure
Cut away shots
Voice over’s
Natural shots
Evidence
Sometimes reconstructions
Sound effects are often added for dramatisation
Simple and sometimes formal graphics
Experts are named
Eye line needs to be a third down
Music bed
Relevant mise-en-scene
Opening titles
Vox pops
No opposing questions
Variety of different camera angles
Archive footage
Exposition is made clear either at the start or throughout