Testing types of documentary example

The topic of these types of documentaries is about becoming 'Head Girl', and the different styles of filming whilst following and interviewing one candidate in particular. We included Louis Theroux's, Nick Broomfield's and Michael Moore's documentary styles, along with an expository and poetic clip.

For the first clip we inserted a title in the bottom left hand corner to show the name and status of the person being interviewed. In our clip it was 'Helen Revell, Head Girl Candidate'. In the other clips we added another title to show the style we were copying, but this was not part of our actual documentary footage; it was for educational purposes only.

The expository footage was a hand held shot of someone secretly following Helen. To enhance the situation we added a 'Vignette' effect to the entire clip which darkened the edges,
like this:

At the end of the expository clip we added a 'Fade to black' transition because the surroundings went darker as the camera faced the wall so this would have made the fade more subtle.

To end the short documentary clip, we included a panning shot of one of the classrooms in Helen's school which we then imported a voice over on top of in a poetic mode style.