I have looked into creative techniques that can be put into the documentary. And one technique I have looked into is an exposition. An exposition is where the first thing you see at the beginning of a documentary is a clip which highlights and shows the main subject and overall theme of the documentary. This technique, when used properly, is a successful tool to draw the audience in to whats happening on the screen.
A documentary that I have seen which uses this technique well is 'The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off'. This documentary focuses on Jonny Kennedy a 37 year old man who suffers from a rare skin condition known as EB which causes skin fragility and ends up giving the carrier of the condition terminal skin cancer. The documentary starts of with the use of an exposition where we see Jonny dead in his wheelchair with his family around him talking about whats happened. This powerful piece of footage successfully highlights the theme and topic of the documentary. This is also aided by Jonny doing a voice over during this which in my opinion was needed to help the audience understand what is happening on screen.
I hope to create something like this for the documentary, either it be on our main case study or just a montage of clips which will have the same purpose, but this depends on what footage we get from filming. If we get something as powerful that shows a lot of raw emotion then we will definitely be using this technique.
Link for 'The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off' documentary.
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