2. • Style of documentary produced in the 1960’s
• Cheap, portable, lightweight equipment
• No narrator
• Fly-on-the-wall
• Up to the audience to draw conclusions
• Doesn’t involve opinion of author
Rules:
• No interviews
• No rehearsals
• No stages events or commentary
• No film lights
• No dissolve edits to be used
This is an example of direct cinema
that we watched as a group in order
to gain a better understanding of the
style.

3. • Style of European film-making
• Hand-held camera (convey life as realistic as
possible)
• Similar to direct cinema but film makers
opinion should be expressed (as part of
propaganda)
• Uses interviews

4. • Fly-on-the-wall approach into day to day
workings of hospitals and airports etc.
• Popular genre
• Often informative
• Humorous and sometimes critical
• Places of work represented
• Given way to popular ‘Docusoap’ genre in
recent years
We watched ‘Airline’ in
order to get a better
insight into this type of
documentary.

5. • Through the eyes of the public
• Based on personalities
• Fast editing
• Multi-strand narratives
• Part of a series and often end on a ‘cliff-
hanger’
• Entertainment main purpose
• Prominent guiding voice-overs
• Selective editing

6. • Most traditional form of documentary
• Usually public service broadcasting
channels
• Explore/investigate current issues
• Often polemical

7. • Again descended from direct cinema
• Reliable and truthful
• Filming themselves
• Voyeuristic nature

8. • Social issues
• Drawing attention to a miscarriage of
justice
• Scripted and acted dramas
• Real life true story acted and dramatized
We watched ‘Hillsborough’ in
order to get a better
insight into this type of
documentary.

9. • Film documentaries in the cinema
• About sports/pop stars etc.
• Authored documentary
• Clearly scripted and present a viewpoint of
an individual

10. • Parodying the genre
• E.G ‘Borat’, ‘Bruno’, ‘The Office’, ‘Ricky
Gervais Show’.
• Parodying an area of life
• Parodying both