Mediation – The alteration of the filmmakers experience by producers to present a certain interpretation to audiences.

Distortion – Twisting or changing footage from its original state to change the factual context behind it.

Hyperreality – Blurring the lines between fantasy and real life so that the audience struggle to make a clear distinction between the two.

Verisimilitude – Making documentaries as true to real life as possible.

Bias – Filmmakers attempting to get the audience to support one specific ‘side of the story’

Objectivity – Giving the impression to audiences that they are observers of the events on screen

Selection/Editing – Picking out specific parts of footage to include in the documentary.

Sentence using key words – The observational documentary ‘Don’t Look Back’ doesn’t use mediation in order to keep the events as close to verisimilitude as possible, instead opting to just follow the events as they unfold on screen.