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In documentary all of the conventions aim to persuade the audience to believe what they are seeing. Also the conventions make the documentary believable and real.  Although the conventions are in place the audience needs to understand that a documentary is a constructed version of reality, often using narrative techniques. A documentary is no 100 percent real and the conventions manipulate the documentary into something different. The audience must therefore make their own judgement on what they believe and agree with and what they don’t rather than just believing what the documentary says.