2. Fully Narrated Documentary, Cosmic Voyage
A fully narrated documentary has a voice over the documentary to help guide the
audience gain a better understanding of what is going on.
3. Documentary Drama, Deadly Women
A reenactment of real life events as they happened. For example the Hillsborough
disaster.
4. Fly on the Wall, The Airport
A fly on the wall documentary is mainly observational and there is little
commentary or narration.
5. Self Reflexive, Deadly 60
Within a self reflexive documentary the make talks to the camera to try to draw the
attention of the audience and are usually conducted by the main subject.
6. Mixed Documentary, Britain’s Trillion Pound Island
A mixed documentary uses a combination of interviews, observation and narration
to help advance the idea that the creator is putting forward.
7. Documentary Soap, Keeping up with the
Kardashians
Documentary soaps follow a group of people around. These documentaries
require no cast and are based on eavesdropping and are cheap to make.
