2. Post Modern Assessment
• The Documentary is a representational, recorded version of the
everyday.
• In documentaries, as an audience we expect to see reality, however this
‘reality’ that we expect to see is not reality. We see representations in
documentaries and shots that have been composed to perfect something that
the filmmaker visualises. Everything we see in the documentary, in theory is
different to any other director, as personally we all have different thoughts,
opinions and preconceptions.
• In documentaries, the camera lens is the eye of both the filmmaker and the
audience. The filmmaker displays to the audience what he/she wants them to
see. Reality cannot be replicated due to the whole element of the camera and
the person behind it, not everything can be recorded (Everything is the reality),
and once it starts recording reality is lost.
3. Post Modern Assessment
• We can no longer expect to see reality as humanity's sense of
the real has disappeared due to the vast amount of mediated
information being shaped by many different people who also do
not know reality themselves. The representations that are
shown to replicate reality are what we as the audience see,
and visualise in our minds. The on going use of the same
representations used in documentaries have now shaped our
views and opinions on different topics, and therefore as
everyone has the same representations in mind then we will
continue to push the same ideologies onto the next person.
4. Process Flow
• A
representation
is presented.
• A filmmaker/audience
member obtains this
representation and it
becomes their view
on a topic.
• The filmmaker
produces a
film with those
representation
s.
• An
audience
watches
the film.
• The representation
is passed on and it
aids the audience
visualise a topic
through the
representation.
FilmmakerRepresentation Film Audience Representation
passed on
5. Auteur Theory
• The term auteur originates from France which translates as author,
which means that a director’s film reflects their creative vision.
The Auteur theory was introduced in the 1950’s by French film
directors like Francois Truffaut who advocated a focus on the
contribution directors made on the style and form of film, he
quoted...
“A true film auteur is someone who brings something genuinely
personal to his subject instead of producing a tasteful, accurate but
lifeless rendering of the original material”
6. Auteur Theory
• The term auteur originates from France which translates as author,
which means that a director’s film reflects their creative vision.
The Auteur theory was introduced in the 1950’s by French film
directors like Francois Truffaut who advocated a focus on the
contribution directors made on the style and form of film, he
quoted...
“A true film auteur is someone who brings something genuinely
personal to his subject instead of producing a tasteful, accurate but
lifeless rendering of the original material”
