Categorical

  • Presents things in categories and by subject
  • Eg. Olympia by Riefenstahl and Gap Toothed Women by Les Blank

Rhetorical Form

  • Presents an argument
  • Persuasive
  • Eg. The River by Lorentz

Experimental

  • Usually difficult to classify
  • More of an open structure
  • Within experimental for there are subcategories
    • Abstract – Film organised by colour, shapes, movement (Eg. Ballet mecanique)
    • Associational – The grouping of images where ideas and qualities which logical connections between that may not be apparent (Eg. Godfrey Reggio’s Koyannisqatis)