Expository Documentary Expository documentary is a mode of

Expository Documentary • Expository documentary is a mode of documentary which focus’s on social problems within the world. • It emphasises rhetorical content.

• It usually uses a voiceover which is used to drive the narrative. • This is a much more spoken in relation to poetic who leaves the audience to gather the information via visual interpretation. • Nichols described the editing in expository documentaries as “evidentiary editing, ” a practice in which expositional images “. . . illustrate, illuminate, evoke, or act in counterpoint to what is said…[we] take our cue from the commentary and understand the images as evidence or demonstration…” (Nichols 2001)

Example of Expository • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=wnjx 6 K ETmi 4 – The inconvenient truth.

Observational

• Unlike the content of poetic documentary, or the “rhetoricalness” of expositional documentary, observational documentaries tend to simply observe, allowing viewers to reach there own conclusions. • The camera is unobtrusive. Allowing the events to occur naturally. • Pure observational documentarians proceeded under some bylaws: no music, no interviews, no scene arrangement of any kind, and no narration. • The fly-on-the-wall perspective is championed, while editing processes utilize long takes and few cuts.

Example of Observational • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=z. NNSJc Gn. RNw- Big brother