Mode of Documentary

Documentaries are splits into six different types of modes

Poetic Documentary -
This type of documentary doesn't have actual people being interviewed. This type of documentary has a impressiontic, lyrical tone compared to other documentaries. A poetic documentary has rhythms and spatial juxtaposition of exploring a specific project, however it opens up possibility of alternative form of knowledge of a subject straight away.

Expository Documentary -
This type of documentary addresses the viewers directly, with titles or the voice over. It advances an argument of a specific subject, this type of documentary arose and distracts the audience by entertaining qualities.  Images and verbal commentary are used so that the audience have a knowledge of the subject.

Observational Documentary-
Observational Documentary is used in order to have that everyday like feeling within the documentary. This type of documentary is used to have a indirect address, speech overheads and sounds so that the audience can have a different type of understanding of the subject.

Participatory Documentary-
This type of mode engages with the documentary, for example the filmmaker may be within the video. it allows the filmmaker to account for past events and witness. This would be like documentaries like and watch dog. Paranoma. There are footage of absent and previous events within the documentary.

Reflexive Documentary-
This type of mode engages with the audience in a way to get sympathy, empathy and emotional feelings from the audience. This mode express a scene where both the director and the audience. it uses different strategies to get the viewers attends to device as well as effect.

Performative Documentary-
 Such as reflexive documentary, this raises question about knowledge of the subject.
however this would be a form of where the characters would be acting to get the visual understanding of the subject , for example The Story of The Prophet Muhammed swt. The people aren't actually here, however the knowledge is still within, so people would act, in order to get the visual understanding of the subject.