This is a reflexive documentary. This is the most difficult type to define yet. It incorporates a lot of the characteristics of the other genres but also uses film forms and conventions. Humour occurs more frequently and is mostly provided by the soundtrack.
An example of this in the documentary below is when the voiceover talks about the poison the cane toad excretes when threatened, it then cuts to a compelling young child innocently picking up a cane toad, (accompanied by jaws type music), only to be saved by his mother just in the nick of time. There is also a short pyscho esque scene with the toads etc. The facts are definitely in the film yet it is interjected with humour and small skit like scenes.
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