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 Types of Documentaries There are six different sub genres of the documentary film genre itself, these are poetic, expository, participatory, observational, reflexive and performative. These modes establish a way that the documentary will be constructed and set up certain expectations for the viewers. Poetic - This mode of documentary became widely popular in the 1920s, a poetic documentary is often non linear and lacking a clear narrative thrust. They rely heavily on juxtaposition of images and sound to create a mood or tone. Through this, the audience are shown an abstract, subjective, representation of reality that is achieved through techniques such as emphasized visuals and a narrative organised to fit the mood of the documentarian or documentary rather than the linear, logical organization that films followed prior to this. This type of documentary often had the intention of providing a biased, subjective reality to help shape how the audience felt on the subjects covered in the

Analysing Documentaries The Future of Fashion with Alexa Chung I watched the first episode of a Vogue docuseries titled 'The Future of Fashion with Alexa Chung' to help me gain perspective into how a fashion documentary should be constructed and give me ideas I can put into use when creating my own documentary. This was a short documentary and was 11 minutes long, which I found helpful due to the fact my own documentary will be about the same time frame. I found that the first minute of the documentary was shots of the filmmaker and a voiceover behind a montage of videos relating to the subject of the documentary, giving the viewer an insight to what they are about to watch. Followed by this, the documentary title was displayed in a large font accompanied by the same montage of fashion billboards setting the theme of the video. There were many shots of the filmmaker talking directly to the camera which leads me to believe that this documentary was created in a participatory sty