Expository
- Mostly used in TV
- Voiceover narration, commenting & explaining in a direct address. The aim is to inform. I may use voice overs in my documentary.
Observational
- 'Fly On The Wall'
- Attempts to show the world as it is
- Long takes, handheld camera - no interview or voiceover
- The audience should be not aware of the filmmaker
Participatory (Interactive)
- The filmmaker is foreground in the participatory mode
- Its made explicit that the film is made from the point of view
- Often they are central character & their interaction & questioning of the subjects, lead the tone of the documentary
- Handheld camera, informal interviews
Reflexive & Performative
- Reflexive reveals how documentaries are produced as representations based on the construction & manipulation of the image
- The performative explicitly challenges the idea of documentary truth
- Reality-soap a new hybrid category
Documentary V Fiction
- There will always be an element of editing and therefore structuring devices
- Establish a 'problem' or dilemma to be eventually resolved
- Real people become characters
Function Of Documentary
- Used to be that it should be educational and enlighten the audience
- Grierson - documentary could perform a democratic function, educating the ordinary citizen about wider social, political and cultural developments.
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