• This type of documentary the camera follows one person or a group and they acknowledge the camera.

• This type of documentary is a dramatized film of actual events.

• It may change some of the key facts or events to make it more dramatic and entertaining.

• This type of documentary is when the cameras works in the background and just observes, with the participants of the documentary.

• Events are seen candidly.

• The camera just observes.

• Direct cinema- US

• Camera Venite- France

• These styles are about the raw cinema footage with no voiceover and just showing the footage using the raw form to take it back to basics and are both very similar movements just created in different countries. They both influenced the fly on the wall documentary.

• This type of documentary is a combination of-

• Interviews

• Archive footage

• Narration

• Observation

• Most documentaries are mixed as they include a variety of different types of documentary styles.

• This type of documentary is following people over a particular amount of time.

• The camera follows this group of people in a certain setting or location over a period of time.

• Mixture of observation, interviews and narration and follows there daily lives.

• This type of documentary is a voice over documentary explains events as they unfold throughout the documentary.

• The narration is “the voice of god”.

• Use direct address to convey exposition.

• Anchors the meaning of the visuals.

• Usually in nature documentaries.

• Creates a sense of authority.

• This type of documentary is usually used in nature documentaries.