RESEARCH ON DOCUMENTARY

The target audience for documentaries varies depending on what documentary it is. The genre of a documentary is an umbrella term as it covers a huge range of programming as you can have documentaries about things like nature or you can have documentaries such as love island for example, there are so many different things that come under documentary. People may watch documentaries for so many different reasons, Blumer and Katz's theory about the uses and gratification as to why people watch things is apparent here. Documentaries offer some level of education as they are factual but actually they offer a sense of escapism, diversion and entertainment.