Narrative Documentary modes:
- Expository - Narrating "voice of god" BBC documentary style
- Observational - "fly on the wall" no voice over, (Maysles Brothers)
- Participatory - Onscreen relationship between filmmaker and subject, usually via interview
- Reflexive - Seeks to challenge our assumption (Nick Broomfield)
- Poetic - Relies on expressive editing of sound and image (Adam Curtis)
- Performative - Filmmaker/ subject conveys personal experience (Michael Moore)
Critical approaches to documentary:
- Realism - making it look as natural as possible, as least artificial lighting sound etc. as possible, even when using artificial lighting make it look natural
- Mediation and Repressentation - What we see is NOT objective reality or truth
- Reception Theory - How we as the audience mediate texts, and factors that might influence us.
- Ideology - A set of opinions, values, belifs and assumptions that one uses to think about and relate to the world. Propaganda in documentary Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera (1929) and Leni Riefenstahls Olympia (1938)
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