2a documentary conventions

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Page 1: 2a documentary conventions

By Dean Pittman

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Real footageThroughout the whole documentary, all of the footage you see is real and not a reenactment, the footage you see is from CCTV, interviews and Katie’s everyday life. There are many other clips and images which were taken from before the incident and after her surgery. The documentary explores Katie's life after and her struggles.

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Real factsEverything in this documentary is based on real facts and events, of a horrific crime which started over an argument with her boyfriend which lead to him paying someone to ruin her life by throwing acid in her face, the life which was taken away from her was a career of modelling and presenting. The documentary talks about her life before and after she had acid thrown in her face. These covered how she coped and what was going through her mind at the time and now.

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Voice-overs (narrators)

The documentary describes what has happened to her and how she has to coping with every day life, they told us all about the surgery she had to have done as well as how she is coping now with the thoughts and the marks left by this crime. They described all of this while we was watching all these clips.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/katie-my-beautiful-face/4od

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Diegetic and non-diegetic soundsDiegetic – Are the real sounds which go with the video clips, this happens a lot in this documentary when they are talking to her and her family.

Non-Diegetic – At the beginning of this documentary they play soft music to make the video clip where she gets the acid thrown in face to make this stand out more.

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Detailed They talked about everything that happened as well as how Katie and her family are fighting to get the man who did this to her behind bars. Ever part of this documentary is detailed because they are telling us everything which happens and happened in the footage as well as what she has to do on a daily life.

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Interviews with Katie herself They showed us interviews with Katie and her family to get their sides of the story and how they are dealing with the horrific incident which happened to their daughter.

They told us the shock they felt when they were first told about what had happened to Katie when the police called.

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Katie's Boyfriend and what he did!

Here is an image of her boyfriend who was the person who was behind the horrific attack on Katie. He meet Katie over the internet, they started dating. One night they had a massive argument and she kicked him out and didn’t want to see him again, and because of this is planned to get her by throwing acid in her face.

Here you can see what he had done to her which ended her career and nearly her life because of the damage it coursed.