2. Poetic Mode
Poetic mode tends toward subjective
interpretations of its subject.
It creates a particular mood or tone.
Traditional narrative content.
Both characters and situations are
undeveloped.
3. Expository Mode
Narration is a distinct innovation.
The narration explains the film’s rhetorical
content.
The footage used for this mode functions
to strengthen the spoken narrative
‘Direct address’ social issues assembled
into an argumentative frame.
4. Observational
It became advanced in 1960s as technology
adapted.
Camera and lights became smaller, so they were
able to document life in a less instructive manner.
They tend to simply observe surroundings
Observational allows viewers to reach whatever
conclusions.
They proceed with; no music, no interviews and no
arrangements of scenes.
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5. Participatory
The film-maker engages with the situation
they are documenting.
Encounter between the subject and film-
maker is recorded.
6. Reflexive
Engages actively with issues of realism
and representation.
The aim with this mode is to get the
audience to understand the process of
construction film.
Demonstrates consciousness of the
process of reading documentary.
7. Performative
Acknowledges the emotional and subjective
aspects of documentary.
Presents ideas as part of a context.
Engages the filmmaker to the story but constructs
subjective truths that are significant to the
filmmaker.
This mode is particularly well-suited to telling the
stories of filmmakers from relegated social groups
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