Technical Analysis of a Documentry 1

This is a short documentry about the psychology behind dreams. It starts with lots of moving shots, which is a good opener because it immeditly draws the viewer in. There are also non-diagetic voiceovers which sound like the answers to an interview, and this is a way of the filmmaker to draw the people in because they are starting to find out information they want to know.
The editing is done as a flow, so everything kind of flows into one from lots of seperate shots. There is a non diagetic voiceover of lots of peope explaining what is going on in their dreams, and then it goes straight to shots of three or four people saying the same thing which has been cut short. This brings tension into the scene because the viewer now knows what kind of thing they are going to be watching over the next five minutes.
There are now the usual conventions of a documentry, which are the facts being shown in typing over some shots, and this usually involves some non-diagetic background music. A voiceover, also non diagetic, then tells us what a dream is, a definition. In the back of this there is shots zooming in of someone sleeping, and close-up shots of someones bed. This is effective in makig the reader focus on the voiceover of what is being said and then they can gather information from that.
The rest of the documentary then consists of people being interviewed, and many different shots wtith a main voiceover filling people in on what dreams are. This fits the conventions of a documentary because it is telling you all about what you want to learn about with using shots ih the background as almost an aid to help you listen to what you are being told.
the inter-titles are the questions that are being asked. These are in quite a plain white font and fit in well with the shots being shown in the background, which are typically long shots. The target audience for this documentary would be adults who want to learn more about the psychology behind dreams. The non-diagetic voiceover tends to foreshadow what is going to be asked next.
There is noone asking questions in this documentary, which is unusual because there would usually be someone asking all the questions and someone else answering them. However, this does meet lots of conventions of the documentary because it features a voiceover and lots of different shots, and interviews which are a main thing in most you will watch when it concerns people.