In traditional documentary, the audiences will have to sit through the film for at least one to two hours while interactive documentary does not have a broadcast space and a pre-set duration of the time (Dixon, 2015). Interactive documentary allows the audience to learn and experience in a more engaging concept than traditional documentary. Not to say that traditional documentary is not engaging because it does engage the audience with the content of the story. Since technology can support more digital platforms, it becomes accessible for interactive documentary audience to engage easily on the internet.
References:
Dixon, J 2015, ‘The Influence of the World Wide Web on Documentary Form’, Distribution, and Audience Relations: The Cases of Sin by Silence and This is Not a Conspiracy Theory, viewed 3 August 2016, retrieved from: https://utexas-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2152/31664/DIXON-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y