Documentary Overview

Definition:
A film of TV program/film presenting the facts about a person or event.

Background:
The Box Office has noticed the documentary film genre has become increasingly more successful over the years. Documentaries tend to have much lower budgets than dramatic narrative films, which make them more appealing to film companies.
Documentary films have expanded in the past 20 years. Modern documentaries have some overlap with television forms, with the development of ''reality television''

Examples:
Documentary Film's have developed over the years, they're many different factual programs/films about a variety of difficult topics available for people to watch.

Documentary Programs;
 1.'Extradinary People/Body Shock
These programmes air on channel four. They are about unusual people that are different to the conventional person, i.e. The tallest person in the world. As an audience people often become in grossed in watching these types of shows because they're intrigued to hear about peoples lives which are different to their own. In terms of how they cope day to day, what caused them to be that way and their own personal feelings about the way they are.
2. The World's Strictest Parents/Cherry Healeys Parenting Dilema's
These programmes are aired on BBC 3. They look at different ways to parent a child, giving advice to parents on how to parent their own children.

Outcome:
Of course I am not going to do a documentary programme, but I figured I could base my Documentary Film around one of these ideas that has been explored in one of the above tv shows.