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DOCUMENTARY
Sebastian Black
TYPES OF DOCUMENTARY
Poetic
Observational
Reflexive
Expository
Participatory
Performative
POETIC
Personal documentary
Originated in 1920.
Certain aspects of the person’s life is emphasised using music, camera shots & angle & editing.
POETIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSSqa9RD3mw
OBSERVATIONAL
Recording the truth
The filmmaker has not interfered the ‘real’ by editing things out
Raw
OBSERVATIONAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw7P-GomLJk
REFLEXIVE
Documentary’s relationship with the audience
More about how the documentary is constructed rather than the content of the documentary
REFLEXIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3m1beasBjQ
EXPOSITORY
Social issues
Speaks directly to the audience using voiceovers or text
EXPOSITORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RFuzk_-qqc
PARTICIPATORY
The situation is influenced or altered by the filmmaker’s presence
PARTICIPATORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLa8dQZq2Xg
PERFORMATIVE
Opposite of Observational documentaries
Documentaries that are aware of the emotional & subjective aspects
PERFORMATIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW9Ic28qUM8
INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY
Common documentary
Introduces a ‘problem’ or question which is going to be solved in the documentary
ETHNALOGICAL DOCUMENTARY
Looks at lives of specific people
DOCUMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION
Events are reconstructed
DRAMA DOCUMENTARY
A Documentary that dramatises eventes or sequences of events.
DOCU-SOAP
Television development
MOCKUMENTARY
A fiction film that uses documentary form