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Topic: What is the social issue?
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Audience: Who are you targeting? Which newspaper does your article appear in?
Are you being conscious of the nature and style?
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Truth: What is the version of
truth presented in your documentary?
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Opinion: What is your opinion,
view or stand point on the way the documentary has positioned you? Does
it matter that this documentary only presents one version of truth? If it
only presents one truth, is it successful in positioning viewers to accept
it?
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Content: What information
will you include to achieve your purpose? Will you use sequences, quotes,
specific references to particular clips/devices? Remember you must RESEARCH
your topic, allude to alternative ‘truths’ and attitudes of mind. What
strategies, devices and techniques do the documentary makers use to position
the viewer?
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Angle: What are you hoping to
communicate to your audience? Of what are you trying to persuade them? Is
your tone serious?
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Technical aspects
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Headline
Get the readers’ attention!
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By-line
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Kicker
Be witty – keep the readers interested.
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Lead
Contextualise the social issue and nature of the
documentary.
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Body 1
Perhaps deal with a particular ‘sequence’ and the devices used in it?
Start listing notes re. examples you will use to
substantiate your thesis.
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Body 2
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Body 3
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Conclusion
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Style You may choose to use:
o First person
o Irony
o Rhetorical questions
o Descriptive language
o Variety in sentence length
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Format
o Photos and captions
o Columns
o ‘Throw out’ quotes
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Remember: This is not about your opinion on the social issue; it is about what the
documentary makers have done to try to
make you think a certain thing. Whether
you agree with what they have done will
be conveyed inherently in the tone, language
and content you use to persuade
your reader that the documentary was or wasn’t
successful in positioning you to
accept a certain version of truth.
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