Analyse the documentary film text - Grizzly Man

Reflexive mode  - The scene with the coroner suggests a "staged" scene and questions the reliability of the scene. Herzog is a film maker who works both in fiction and non fiction film making. Set in a real location with natural lighting and a handheld camera with recreates authenticity. Herzog uses aspects of the mise en scene to add mock authenticity.

Expository mode - The voice over by Herzog gives a very strong bias. The audience are directed down one narrative path , the agenda and character assassination of  Timothy Treadwell is clearly evident.

Interactive Mode - You can identify Herzog's involvment clearly through dialogue such as questioning which shapes the interviews and scenes.

• Herzog cut a lot of the film which leaves the question what footage has he left out? Also why has he chosen what he did? This again supports the questionable reliability of the film.

• Herzog has constructed Treadwell's character, is it different to the one who actually existed? We only have Herzog's choice of footage to take our information from, and was Timothy Treadwell the same person he portrayed in his films?

• Herzog open about mixing fiction and non fiction techniques, which could have influenced the way he edited the footage and the selection of footage he used.

• There's a binary opposition between Treadwell who shows the animals in a Disney friendly way, talking to them and giving them names whereas Herzog has gone out of his way to show the dangerous side in his footage choice; purposely including his own extra footage of the more savage bears.