1. Expository documentary - Expository documentaries are more commonly seen on TV, rather than in the cinema. There are many different techniques that are used in this mode of documentary including voiceover narration, commenting on the images and explaining what is happening in a direct address to the audience. The aim of this mode of documentary is to inform the audience about an event or place with something in which they are not familiar. They usually have lots of factual information and figures. America's Most Wanted is an example of an expository documentary.
3. Participatory (interactive) documentary - This is the opposite to an observational documentary as the filmmaker is foregrounded making it explicit that the film is made from their point of view. There is a lot of interaction in participatory documentaries as the filmmaker tends to want to interview people and meet other people. They actively engage with the situation they are making a film on. Living with Michael Jackson is a documentary that is interactive as the filmmaker/ journalist Louis Theroux is actively talking to people and interviewing others involved with Michael Jackson.
4. Reflexive documentary - This borrows techniques from fiction film for an emotional or subjective response. It emphasises the expressive nature of film and anti realist techniques. Voiceovers are likely to be questioning and uncertain.
5. Performative documentary - The final two modes are linked because they both investigate the relationship between the real world and the way in which documentaries are produced as representations based on the construction and manipulation of the image. The performative documentary takes this idea further, explicitly challenging the idea of documentary truth, instead emphasising the process of film language itself. Tongues Untied is an example of a performative documentary as it is not a typical documentary.
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