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Documentary - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Moore's films can be very biased / opinionated, he tends to use a lot of satire as he intends to make the audience laugh
        
        his scenes can be scripted at times and he brings an aesthetic approach to his films. A lot of non0diegetic sound is used, along with contrapuntal sound for humour and to create irony.
        
        'people don't want medicine they want popcorn...'
        
        Moore wants to make a film... not a document, he has a participatory approach and wants his audience to be entertained
    - - participatory style, plays to his left-wing populist audience, says he creates movies not documentaries, auteur, obtrusive, bias / opiniated
        
        entertaining, dramatic, satrical, sets up binary oppositions, scripted, aesthetic approach
  - - - Longinotto appears to be unbiased and tries to create 'true cinema' by having a fly on the wall style to her films
        
        Longinotto is invisible within her films, she uses very little voice overs and formal interviews, she is the 'eyes' for her audience
      - 'I don't see films as a document or records of things'
        
        Longinotto wants her films to raise questions rather then reaching conclusions
    - - Voice of God, she is never seen, unobtrusive, appears to be unbiased
        
        'authetnic', unscripted, observational cinema, no music, fly on the wall / 'truthful cinema'
- - - - Examples of expository documenatries: The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936 - Pare Lorentz), City of Gold (1957 - Colin Low & Wolf Koeing), Waiting for Fidel (1974 - Michael Rubbo)
    - - examples of poetic documentary: Coal Face (1935 - Alberto Cavalcanti), Fata Morgana (1971 - Werner Herzog), Tongues Untied (1980 - Marlon Riggs)
- - - - Brit awards & were still friends sequence
      - Back to Black sequence