1. Poetic Documentaries
- Fragmental, impressionistic, lyrical
- One of the first documentaries types: first appeared in the 1920s
- Reaction against the content and crystallising grammar of early fiction films
- Organised images of material world by patterns and associations
- Well-rounded characters were absent, instead there were entities
- 'Real world' broken up into fragments and arranged aesthetically
2. Expository Documentaries
- Speak directly to viewer, authoritative commentary
- Strong argument and point of view
- Rhetorical, aim is to persuade the viewer
- 'Voice of God' commentary
- Images are used to enhance the argument and the rhetorical tone manipulates viewers to view these in a certain light
3. Observational Documentaries
- Observe life with minimal intervention
- Generally avoid voice-over commentary, post-synchronised dialogue and music, and reenactments
- Aims: immediacy, intimacy, revelation of individual human character in ordinary life situations
4. Participatory Documentaries
- Impossible for the act of filmmaking to not influence or alter the events being recorded, they emulate the approach of the anthropologist: participant-observation
- Filmmaker is apart of film, viewer gets a sense of how events are altered/influenced by them
5. Reflexive Documentaries
- Don't see themselves as a transparent window on the world, they draw attention to their own constructedness and the fact that they are representations
- Prompt viewers to question the authenticity of documentaries in general
6. Performative Documentaries
- Stress subjective experience and emotional response to the world
- Personal, unconventional, poetic/experimental
- Hypothetical enactments of events to make viewers experience what it might feel like to have a certain perspective on the world that is not their own
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