DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH

PURPOSE- ENTERTAIN

One purpose of the documentary Amy is to entertain the audience, a way in which the producers have
done this is by including archival footage of when she was younger to show the audience parts of her life.
 PURPOSE INFORM

The second purpose of Amy is to inform the audience about Amys life. The producers use real life footage
(actuality) to show the audience what her life was like. There are also interviews with her friends and family
and with people she worked with so that they were able to tell the audience more about her too.
 PURPOSE- RAISE AWARENESS

Another purpose of the documentary Amy is to raise awareness of the effects of alcohol and drugs. A way in which
the producers do this is by using archival footage and stills of Amy when she was drinking or when she had used
drugs they did this to shock the audience which would also raise awareness.
 CODES AND CONVENTIONS

One code and convention which is used a lot throughout the documentary is archival footage. This is
used because it is meant to show the stages in her life, therefor there are videos and images from when
she was younger.
 CODES AND CONVENTIONS

Another code and convention used in the documentary is mediation, this is used by only including
bad footage of her dad to make him look worse, however these may have been the only footage they
had because amys dad complained about the film after it was made and said that it paints a bad
picture of him.
 CODES AND CONVENTIONS

Another code and convention used is interviews, there are interviews with her friends and family who tell us
more about amys life.
 MODE

The mode of Amy documentary is expository, this Is becuase the voice over tells the audience
everything they need to know.
 MODE

Another mode of this documentary is Poetic because the background music fits in with what's playing on
screen and makes the audience think about the lyrics when they hear and see them.
 TYPE

one type that this documentary could be is fly on the wall because the audience watch amys life. As it
happened and they use real life footage to show this.
 NARRATIVE

One narrative structure that this documentary is a Linear narrative. This is because it is filmed in chronological
order from when she was a child until the end of her life.
 NARRATIVE

This documentary has a single strand narrative as it just tells us the story of amys life.
There are no other story's going on at the same time as Amy is the main focus of the
documentary.
 NARRATIVE

This documentary has on open narrative as no questions are answered, it shows what happened during
the stars life but doesn't answer exactly what went wrong.
 TARGET AUDIENCE

One target audience for this documentary is Amy Winehouse fans because they're interested in her life and they like
watching her, this is also aimed at her fans because it lets them watch her whole life on screen.
 TARGET AUDIENCE

Another target audience is people who are interested in music, this documentary would be aimed
at them because there is a lot of her music and lyrics throughout the documentary.
 TARGET AUDIENCE

The final target audience is 18+, I think that this is a target audience because its aimed at more mature people
as it discusses death, drugs and drink which wouldn'tt be appropriate for a younger audience.