Research for Factual Documentary

This documentary is called Big Secret Nobody Knew, it featured on National Geographic and focused on the story of World War II. This is would come under the 'mixed' sub-genre in the documentary genre because it uses a lot of archived footage however it also uses a lot of interviews with people who were involved in World War II which gives a more honest account of what happened there, it may be biased towards the United Kingdom along with its allies because it is a British production though.

I really like this documentary because it uses a mixture of archived footage, interviews, voice overs and music in order to create an intense factual documentary. I would predict that this documentary is aimed towards upper class men who are curious, well-educated, high influential and affluent global business decision makers. I would predict this because this is the channels target audience therefore all of the shows shown on that channel are going to be aimed towards that audience.

This documentary is called My Last Days: Meet Zach Sobiech, it is a documentary that is focusing on a 17 year old boy who has been diagnosed with osteosarcoma (a rare form of born cancer). It became a viral hit on YouTube. This would come under the 'self reflexive' genre because it is following a single individual round who has a story to tell so that he can inspire others with his story.

I really like this documentary and would want to create a documentary like this because it makes you realise that life can end at any minute and I feel I can relate to it because I am his age and it made me reconsider my outlook on life. This documentary is very emotional because of the content throughout the video and because of the music that is put behind the footage.

This documentary is called Just Melvin, Just Evil. It is about a child molester who raped small children. This documentary is completely different to the other two documentaries that I have researched because it uses a completely different type of emotion throughout the documentary. I feel the beginning of the film is so hitting because it shows the victims anger towards the child molester. This would come under the 'mixed' sub-genre in the documentary genre because it uses multiple forms of media to emphasise the point that it is making- it uses archived footage that looks like it has been recorded from many decades ago, it uses photographs, it uses modern footage (interviews) and it uses multiple soundtracks. It is biased towards the victim and does not attempt to portray the attacker in any positive way possible, it focused on the negatives of him and did not bring up any relevant memorable positives. I think this is good though because this helps the audience to generate a defined opinion on the attacker and it also helps to make them realise what morals are.

I like this documentary because it uses such emotive language throughout the film, it uses a fair bit of swearing when the victims are describing the attackers actions which helps to generate a negative view of the attacker. It does not use a lot of music however it does use some, which is quite trippy psychedelic music which helps to keep the film intense because it constantly feels like something is going to happen.