2 Minute Poetic Documentary

There are many ways in which you can make a documentary from investigative documentaries such as Louis Theroux (in which he also takes a participatory role and does not just sit back like other investigative documentaries such as Africa where the film maker sits back and lets the events unfold) Within all these different types of documentaries are also different ways of approach meaning that you can actually be very creative with something that would normally be associated with being purely factual, a good example of this would be a documentary winning a BAFTA last year "Senna" which was sold as a film to the public as it was very entertaining. The approach we will be taking for this assignment is a poetic one which is not very common in mainstream documentaries but also not un-heard of. The British Documentary Movement had used poetic documentary but this was quite early last century meaning that Poetic documentary has seemingly phased out, saying that from the small clips we have seen it can still be a very effective way of communicating with the audience and perhaps engaging them on a higher level than just presenting them with facts as poems/lyrics can often evoke emotions in the audience.