Analysing the Images, Media and Industry
Written by Matt Ritchie and Joe Brewer

Nick Broomfield is a practitioner of the participatory mode. He directly engages with the subjects and therefore he becomes part of the documentary. Broomfields impact within the film makes the audience recognise that he is controlling the documentary to make it answer the questions with the answers he wants.

This mode, if applied would affect our documentary in that it would involve risking the violation of one or more Ofcom rules, as the filmmaker interacting with the subject is not a violation of Ofcom rules itself but as Nick Brookfield proves he over-involves himself with the subjects to the point of manipulation. The benefits of applying this mode to our documentary would be the intention of making the audience feel like they are involved with the superheroes.

 Henri Cartier Bresson's style belongs to the observational mode of documentary, also described as fly-on-the-wall documentary. The potential disadvantages of applying this style to our documentary are, when considering the un-predictable nature of what our documentary is about, would be not being engrossed enough with the content which would pose the risk of placing dull coverage over something which should and would deserve participatory coverage.