Generic Research: Beginning of researching documentaries

To begin to understand documentaries and form ideas to create my own I have begun to watch existing documentaries and found some interesting points about them.


The first one I viewed was 'Our Guy In India' shown on Channel 4.



This was interesting as it showed a number of contrasting (in content) fast paced shots in the opening sequence. This documentary has strong sense of verisimilitude and branding as the whole documentary is about india and the backing sound is indian music and title is in a indian themed font. This documentary outlines what is coming straight after the title of ‘Our guy in India’ and has background information on Guy Martin before the title appears. It has clear and constant narration throughout the whole documentary. There is also intertexuality by showing an old clip in black and white of a specific motorbike from the past which Guy later rode, also shows black and white images of the bikes whilst narrating historical information and then had an interview with a bike gang.