Documentaries play a big part in media. They allow you to express your opinion on a certain subject which is then investigated throughout the documentary. Documentaries can be presented in different forms like expository, observational, interactive, reflexive, and performative. An example is a documentary on animals or a specific animal it would expository because it will be informing us of what's going by have a voice over or presenter and it will be clear for viewers to understand.
The first documentary I watched was "Bowling For Columbine" which is an interactive documentary because throughout the piece Micheal Moore the man behind the film wanted to make the audience be one sided and agree with him and tried to make out as if he was innocent and that everything he was trying to convey was right. He drives the narrative by constructing a version of reality which will keep the audience entertained but at the same time still being biased. Micheal Moore is a putting a point across that in America fire arms are easily accessed which need to be looked at instead of people putting the blame on things like video games and music like Marily manson were brainwashing the youth and causing these problems to happen. Micheal Moore organises different interviewes and meetings trying to prove his point but at the same time remaining his innocene. Throughout he whole documentary Micheal Moore is in full control barging into places and being quite intimidating and forceful with his questions he would ask, at one point Micheal Moore has a meeting with the president of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston, Moore is very pushy with his questions and kind of not give Heston a chance to put his point across, futhermore Moore puts questions forward that are very biased towards his point which again makes the audience become one sided because Heston eventually walks out of the interviewing not being able to handle to the pressure making Moore look innocent and Heston look guilty, however Moore still proved his point. Moore then goes on to show statisticts and facts to back his point up. Majority of the action taken place was very much pushed my Micheal Moore for example by having the 2 victims of the Columbine shooting stand up to try and stop selling ammunition in a store called "K-mart" he also makes them go to the embassay of "K-mart" eventually they stopped selling ammunition which just shows how much control Micheal Moore really had because of his forcefulness and persuasion.
I will be analysing another documentary format calle Night Mail which was made in 1936 which is about an old convention way of postal delivery from England to Scotland, its shows how the mail was packaged, how the workers did it. In this documentary I would say its expoistory because it didn't beat around the bush and directly to the point of the documentary which would make it clear for viewers to understand. A voice over is used as the narrative, the narrative was educative because it informed us of how things worked back then and the history behind it all and it gave clear discriptives which sticks to the format of it being expoistory.
Expoistory and Interactive are two very different type of formats. Interactive as shown in Bowling for Columbine was very biased to one point and that was not even the viewer the chance to decide themself what they agree or disagree with. Both of the documentaries gave points but Micheal Moore was to one point whereas Night mail had several different points and was informative at the same time and it wasn't as sensitive as a topic as Bowling for Columbine.
An example of a factual programme is BBC news are based on objectivity and informative they get to the point with the news and by giving us the viewers eye contact shows that they are informing us. Voice over is used a lot in news which is also being very imfortative and describing what is going on and I think the "Night male" is similar to that because they also use voice over and get to the point whiles being informative about history.
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