‘Categories are grouping that individuals or societies create to organise their knowledge of the world’ (pp. 343).

‘The categorical film often begins by identifying its subject’ (pp. 343).

‘In categorical form, patterns of development will usually be simple’ (pp. 343).

‘If a documentary filmmaker wants to convey some information about the world to audiences, categories and subcategories may provide a basis for organising the film’s form’ (pp. 343).

‘Because categorical form tends to develop in fairly simple ways, it risks boring the spectator’ (pp. 344).

My final project will be a list of videos of the things in the Queer Lounge. It’s more than likely that I will be using the categorical form for my documentary practice. I plan to categorise the videos into “areas” of the Queer Lounge like I did when for the project three.

Bordwell and Thompson’s Film Art: An Introduction – Non-narrative, pp. 343-344.