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| Question | Answer |
| INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY | most common type of documentary, introduces a 'problem' or question, which it then goes on to solve. Dramatic film techniques are often used to heighten the tension and draw the audience into the documentary world. Most television documentary follows this format. |
| ETHNOLOGICAL DOCUMENTARY | looks at the lives and culture of a particular group in a scientific or analytical fashion. includes a range of films from Nazi documentaries about other races, through to the television documentary series 'child of our time'. |
| DOCUMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION | usually part of a documentary, where events are reconstructed for the camera, sometimes can use the locations and people involved or sets and actors. in contemporary documentary such reconstruction is usually labelled, though early film makers were less concerned with the legitimacy of such approaches. |
| DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY | type of documentary that dramatizes an event (or series of events) and uses the techniques of the fiction film to construct the 'real'. Such documentaries may include 'voice of god narration' to lessen the demand on the dramatization to explain complex underpinning issues. |
| DOCU-SOAP | a television development, this type of documentary follows a set of characters through a series of events across a series of documentaries. Their lives, opinions and emotional states are very much to the fore, with the surface subject of the documentary often reduced to the situation of backdrops. |
| MOCUKUMENTARY | a fiction film that uses documentary form to suggest it is actually a documentary. often comic in nature, the mockumentary can be so effective in using documentary form that audiences may be convinced they are watching a true documentary eg. many believed spinal tap (1985) |
| THE EXPOSITORY MODE |
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