LOUIS THEROUX DOCUMENTARY STYLE - RESEARCH

Louis Theroux was the biggest influence for me during this documentary. Louis is an English Documentary maker who became huge through the BBC. He's classed as the king of documentaries on social media and is known for his documentary series such as "Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends" and "When Louis Met...".

He was known as well for having a strange friendship with Jimmy Savile while he was still alive and also made one of his episodes "When Louis Met Jimmy" about him with the intention of uncovering the truth about Savile's crimes but never succeeded. However, when the news broke he went and made his documentary "Louis Theroux, Savile" which referred back to his original documentary and Louis also interviewed friends and victims of Jimmy Savile to look more into the truth behind his crimes and how he could fool so many but also show that even though he was a horrible criminal, we was once loved by millions in Britain.

Louis Theroux's style of documentary is very much Expository but always through his own Presenting. Louis is always the one asking the questions, always the voice over. He is very much present throughout the documentary and it's always him looking into the topic or investigating into the story and because of how much he has done, it's become iconic for him to be there. He's very relaxed on camera but he always talks and presents like he knows what he's doing, never having a crossed opinion and always asking the right questions.

The style of having a presenter has been done by many but it has been done so much by Louis that people will often assume the style as "Louis Theroux style".
My other reason for looking into Louis's style is because he'll go that extra mile to get the good stories. Such as in the 90's he looked deeper into the Porn industry in a documentary which hadn't been done before. As well as looking into Swingers and UFO's. These were all part of his popular documentary series "Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends" where he would deliberately go and look for the out of normal stories to look into and bring to our television screens.