Mark Kemode Research

Mark Kermode 

 An English film critic, musician and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He contributes to Sight and Sound magazine, The Observer newspaper and BBC Radio 5 Live, where he presents Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews with Simon Mayo on Friday afternoons. He also co-presents the BBC Two arts programme The Culture Show and discusses other branches of the arts for the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review. Kermode writes and presents a film-related video blog for the BBC.

Print media

Kermode began his film career as a print journalist, writing for Manchester's City Life, and then Time Out and the NME in London. He has also written for The Independent, Vox, Empire, Flicks, Fangoria and Neon Until September 2005, Kermode reviewed films each week for the New Statesman. Since 2009 Kermode has written "Mark Kermode's DVD round-up" for The Observer, a weekly review of the latest releases. He sometimes writes for the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine.

In February 2010, Random House released his autobiography, It's Only a Movie, which he describes as being "inspired by real events".Its publication was accompanied by a UK tour.

Links to Mark kermode

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/

http://www.onlyamovie.co.uk/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/markkermode

Styles and techniques used in a documentary

Observation= Records people in a natural enviroment.
Fly on the wall= Sunjects observed over a period of time.
Interactive= Informs and educates.
Expository=  writing is a type of writing where the purpose is to inform, explain, describe, or define the author's subject to the reader.
Drama documentaries= Dramatic reconstructions.
Mockumentaries= is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format.
Personal= Film maker is author and main character.

Michael Moore Research

Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American filmmaker, author and social critic. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, documenting his personal crusade to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth.
Moore criticizes globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism in his written and cinematic works.

Personal life

Since 1990, Moore has been married to producer Kathleen Glynn, with whom he has a stepdaughter named Natalie. They live in Traverse City, Michigan and maintain a summer home in Charlevoix, Michigan.
Moore is a Catholic, but has said he disagrees with church teaching on subjects such as abortion and same-sex marriage. He acquired a life membership to the National Rifle Association following the Columbine massacre.
In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. Also in 2005, Moore started the annual Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City, Michigan.
Moore's net worth has been estimated at "8 figures".