The document discusses different narrative theories that can be applied to documentaries, including Propp's theory about character archetypes like heroes and villains, classical story structure with a beginning, middle, and end, and Todorov's quest narrative theory. It notes that audience research found the public prefers the quest structure. It then states that the documentary team decided to use a quest narrative without a presenter to guide the story and help reach the goal by the end.

1. Documentary Narrative Theories