6 types of documentaries
Poetic Poetic documentaries were first seen in the 1920s, they are very much what they sound like. They focus on experiences, images and showing the audience the world through a different set of eyes. It’s abstract and loose with narrative, the poetic sub-genre can be very unconventional and experimental in the form and content. Realistically the main idea for a poetic documentary is to be able to create a feeling rather than a truth Expository Expository documentaries are most likely closest to what some people consider a “documentary”. It has a sharp contrast to a poetic documentary. The aim of a expository documentary is to either inform or persuade the audience often through omnipresent “Voice of God” narration over footage devoid of ambiguous or poetic rhetoric. This style includes the familiar television style Observational An observational documentary is exactly what it sounds like. The main focus of an observational documentary is to simply observe the world a...