In order to explore this in detail it is necessary to focus the study on the work of a particular director who has a distinctive technique in their specialised field. For the purposes of this analysis I propose to examine the work of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Paul Watson and evaluate these debates with reference to two of his major contemporary works; Rain in my Heart (2006) and A Wedding in the Family (2000). Firstly though, to fully understand the nature of Formalism and how the early formalists approached the theory of filmmaking and structure of narrative as a formal system it is necessary to perform a textual analysis which tackles the central ideologies crucial to the approach.