Cinéma vérité is a documentary filmmaking style that combines naturalistic techniques with staged elements. It aims to look truthful or unscripted. Over time, cinéma vérité has matured and been used to provide perspective across many genres and topics. Directors incorporate cinéma vérité elements like handheld camerawork and interactions between actors and camera operators to make scripted films seem more realistic and engage audiences. Examples like District 9, The Fourth Kind, and Derek use these techniques to varying degrees.

1. Assignment 3
Cinéma vérité
By Kaya Sumbland

2. Definition
Cinéma vérité is phrased "truthful cinema“. It is a style of documentary
filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic
devices of editing and camerawork, staged set-ups, and the use of the
camera to provoke subjects. It is also known for taking a provocative
stance toward its topics.
So, basically, a movie that is filmed in a way to look natural – like
a documentary

3. How Cinéma vérité has
changed over time
Prior to the 1950’s cinema functioned almost solely as a form of entertainment
and sensation. It was not really used to educate or bolster a certain cause in any
meaningful or truthful way.
The practice of cinema verité changed all that through an
innovative technique of fusing the naturalistic filming techniques taken from
documentary work with mainstream devices of editing, cinematography, and staged
scenes, over time the practice matured and developed to crisscross the globe and provide
avenues of dissection for audiences and filmmakers the world over.
1950’s – They wanted to define 2012 – They edit and form a clip
the moment which is to look natural

4. How it has mixed with other genres
Cinéma vérité has mixed with many type of genres like horror, thriller,
action, drama and sci-fi. This has been done so that directors can make
their films seem more natural and real so their audience will forget the
fact that it has been scripted and think its real
For example
District 9
Saving private Ryan
The fourth kind

5. The fourth kind
Throughout the film they show ‘real’ footage and voce clips that they claim to be
real and don’t revel they’re not real to the audience, leaving them to be scared
and believe the cinema verité style clips.
Many clips where made to look like Also to made their characters real
home footage with effects on the when they show the ‘original’ real
camera to show E.T presence person and their actor to make it
seem like they remade the footage

6. Derek
The series follows one man and his workplace filmed in the style of film vérité to
gain comedy from it presenting awkward and unusual situations with naturalistic
reactions. IT makes the audience see him as a real person which consequently
makes the programme more humorous.
There is a lot of hand held camera The actor interacts with the camera men
movement seeming like a documentary

7. District 9
The whole film is made just like a documentary following the eviction of aliens
supposedly that the one camera man is filming him the whole time. They do this
to made something's that’s obviously not real, seam real to make it more exciting
for the viewer.
There is a lot of hand held camera There is a lot of dramatic situations where
movement and the ‘presenter’ type by the characters panic and the camera
character is seen in most shots talking to shot and movement is messy making it
the aliens seem natural and a real reaction