In the first part of this reading it talked about categorical documentary films and the idea about how patterns are formed but can be simple. This is something I think was important for the documentary film that I am making now. I was really worried about making this film because it doesn’t so much have an agenda to push/ or a major turning point but after reading this reading it made me understand- that in order to have a successful film like this it doesn’t have to. I feel like this reading really boosted my confidence with the use of examples and showing how something really small in the world can be made out to be a big deal. In my film specifically it is about babies and their mothers which I think is personally interesting but to other people it may not be. I think that in order to have a successful ‘categorical’ documentary film you need to show the right information about it and develop from small to big.

I have always shown a huge interest in documentary films but more specifically about ones that have a turning point or are really intense. I remember once when I was sick home from school I watched a Disney produced documentary film called ‘Ocean’s’ that is something that I would call a categorical film because it developed over time about the Ocean and didn’t try to make the viewers understand about something specific. It amazes me the depth that producers/directors go into about films and the intentions behind it. I have never thought that intensely about it and what they are trying to convey but it really shows every director wants their audience to understand something, it is just the way that they do it.