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Documentaries construct a particular version of reality through film techniques used to position viewers to respond in specific ways. They mediate meaning by providing an interpretation of the subject between the viewer. Documentaries aim to record, reveal, persuade, analyze or express while entertaining, educating, informing or persuading audiences. Viewers expect content to be grounded in the real world presented objectively. Documentaries can be categorized into expository, interactive, observational, and reflexive modes using styles like travel, diary, fly-on-the-wall, docu-soaps, and investigative forms with values of educating, illuminating issues empathetically, and social/political criticism or analysis.
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Documentary films are nonfiction motion pictures intended to document aspects of reality primarily for instruction or maintaining historical records. Social media platforms have allowed documentaries to improve distribution and education reach. Documentaries can be used for journalism, advocacy, or personal expression. They aim to entertain, educate, persuade and inform, with values of being educative, illuminating issues, and engaging empathy. A good documentary raises questions, uses impartial filmmaking, and constructs a particular vision of reality through techniques to inform, convince and persuade.
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Documentaries do not simply present reality, but construct a particular interpretation of real events and issues. They use techniques like narration, footage selection, and film style to influence viewers in certain ways. While documentaries aim to inform, educate, or persuade audiences, viewers also expect them to be grounded in factual events and present information objectively. There are many subgenres of documentaries, including observational, interactive, reflexive, and docu-dramas that depict reality in different styles and forms, with the overall goals of illuminating issues and engaging viewers emotionally or intellectually.
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This document defines different types of documentaries and their key features. It explains that documentaries can either have a narrator or rely on participants to provide context and meaning. The main types are fully narrated, fly on the wall, mixed, self-reflexive, and docu-drama documentaries. Key features that documentaries use include observation footage, interviews, carefully composed shots, dramatization, and exposition to develop their argument.
Documentary genre
This document discusses different types of documentary films and their key features. It describes fully narrated documentaries that rely on a voiceover, fly on the wall documentaries that aim to show an unseen perspective, and mixed documentaries that use interviews and narration. It also mentions self-reflexive, docudrama, and docusoap documentaries. Key features that all documentaries contain according to the document are observation, interviews, mise-en-scene, dramatization, and exposition.
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A documentary aims to document, investigate, inform, educate and entertain in a truthful and factual manner without fiction. John Grierson is considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film, producing documentaries in the 1930s for cinema audiences before television. Key features of documentaries include observation through interviews or reenacting events, with narration to provide background information and context. There are different types of documentaries such as fully narrated, fly on the wall with no narration, mixed with some interviews and narration, self-reflexive where the narrator contributes most, docudramas which reconstruct real stories, and docusoaps which follow an individual's daily life.
Documentaries
Documentaries aim to document real events using actual footage or reconstructions. There are several types of documentaries including fully-narrated, fly-on-the-wall, mixed, self-reflexive, docudrama, and docusoap. Key features of documentaries are observation, interviews, dramatization, mise-en-scene, and developing an exposition or line of argument.
Styles of Documentary
The document outlines six styles or modes of documentary film as developed by theorist Bill Nichols: poetic, observational, reflexive, expository, participatory, and performative. Each style is defined by its particular traits, conventions used, and relationship to subject matter. For example, a poetic documentary emphasizes personal expression through techniques like music and camera work, while an observational documentary aims to be a neutral, fly-on-the-wall perspective.
Documentary Conventions
The document describes different types of documentary formats including expository, observational, reflexive, participatory, and performative documentaries. It also discusses documentary realism, dramatization, narrativization, news reporting formats like studio newsreaders and field reporters, and techniques used in news reporting like linking to other studios, addressing viewers, interviewing, using experts and witnesses, report structure, and incorporating actual footage.
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Documentaries do not simply present reality, but construct a particular interpretation of real events and issues. They use techniques like narration, footage selection, and film style to influence viewers in certain ways. While documentaries aim to inform, educate, or persuade audiences, viewers also expect them to be grounded in factual events and present information objectively. There are many subgenres of documentaries, including observational, interactive, reflexive, and docu-dramas that depict reality in different styles and forms, with the overall goals of illuminating issues and engaging viewers emotionally or intellectually.
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Documentary genre
This document discusses different types of documentary films and their key features. It describes fully narrated documentaries that rely on a voiceover, fly on the wall documentaries that aim to show an unseen perspective, and mixed documentaries that use interviews and narration. It also mentions self-reflexive, docudrama, and docusoap documentaries. Key features that all documentaries contain according to the document are observation, interviews, mise-en-scene, dramatization, and exposition.
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A documentary aims to document, investigate, inform, educate and entertain in a truthful and factual manner without fiction. John Grierson is considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film, producing documentaries in the 1930s for cinema audiences before television. Key features of documentaries include observation through interviews or reenacting events, with narration to provide background information and context. There are different types of documentaries such as fully narrated, fly on the wall with no narration, mixed with some interviews and narration, self-reflexive where the narrator contributes most, docudramas which reconstruct real stories, and docusoaps which follow an individual's daily life.
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Documentaries aim to document real events using actual footage or reconstructions. There are several types of documentaries including fully-narrated, fly-on-the-wall, mixed, self-reflexive, docudrama, and docusoap. Key features of documentaries are observation, interviews, dramatization, mise-en-scene, and developing an exposition or line of argument.
Styles of Documentary
The document outlines six styles or modes of documentary film as developed by theorist Bill Nichols: poetic, observational, reflexive, expository, participatory, and performative. Each style is defined by its particular traits, conventions used, and relationship to subject matter. For example, a poetic documentary emphasizes personal expression through techniques like music and camera work, while an observational documentary aims to be a neutral, fly-on-the-wall perspective.
Documentary Conventions
The document describes different types of documentary formats including expository, observational, reflexive, participatory, and performative documentaries. It also discusses documentary realism, dramatization, narrativization, news reporting formats like studio newsreaders and field reporters, and techniques used in news reporting like linking to other studios, addressing viewers, interviewing, using experts and witnesses, report structure, and incorporating actual footage.
Types of documentaries
This document outlines several types of documentaries: docusoaps which follow groups over time in an observational style; reality TV which blends authentic footage with commercial elements; fly on the wall documentaries where subjects ignore the camera; mixed documentaries that use interviews and archived footage; self-reflective documentaries where the subject is aware of the camera; docudramas that reconstruct past events; and fully narrated documentaries where a voiceover guides the story. It also discusses current affairs programs that explore issues in more depth than news but require faster production than documentaries.
Types Of Documentary
This document outlines different types of documentary films and television shows. It discusses docusoaps, which follow individuals in a reality TV style over long-running series; reality TV, which mixes authentic footage with entertainment; fly on the wall documentaries with hidden cameras; mixed documentaries that combine different styles; self-reflexive films where subjects address the camera; docudramas that include reenactments; and fully narrated documentaries. It also compares documentaries and current affairs programs, noting they both explore issues in depth but current affairs need faster turnaround times.
The 6 modes of documentary
Bill Nichols proposed that there are 6 documentary modes: expository, observational, participatory, performative, reflexive, and poetic. These modes distinguish different styles of documentary based on their conventions and traits. The expository mode aims to put forward an argument and convince the audience through on-screen evidence. The observational mode films natural events without intrusion or presenter participation. The participatory mode heavily features the filmmaker's involvement through interviews and provocations.
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This document provides an overview of key concepts in documentary film studies. It defines documentary film as the study of film language and how it relates to capturing reality. It discusses documentary filmmaker techniques like selection and construction that influence representation of real events. It also presents common exam questions on topics like whether documentaries can truly capture reality and if they are objectively constructed. Additionally, it outlines various modes of documentary like poetic, expository, observational, and reflexive. Finally, it discusses how representation in documentaries is mediated and how that representation may differ from reality.
Modes of Documentary: Conventions
This document outlines different conventions used in documentary filmmaking. It describes expository conventions which use a voiceover and edited footage to make an argument. Observational conventions involve location shooting with no voiceover or interviews to hide the filmmaker's presence. Reflexive conventions borrow fiction techniques for emotional responses and rely on suggestion over facts. Performative conventions involve the filmmaker interacting with subjects and addressing the audience directly on personal topics like identity. Participatory conventions also involve interaction and informal interviews with archive material and location shooting. Poetic conventions give a subjective view without a narrative through mood, tone, and unrelated shots linked by music.
Documentary genre
Documentaries aim to inform and educate audiences about factual topics. They may use techniques like interviews, archival footage, reenactments, and voiceovers to explain issues. Documentaries can have different structures, like linear (beginning, middle, end) or circular narratives. Theorists like Propp, Barthes, Todorov, and Levi-Strauss have analyzed narrative structures and how audiences interpret codes, conflicts, and opposites in stories. When making a documentary for college students, it's important to keep the visuals and audio interesting as well as informative to fully engage the audience.
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Documentaries aim to document real events using footage or reconstructions. They can use narration or rely on participants' perspectives. There are several types including fully narrated, fly on the wall, mixed, self-reflexive, docu-drama, and docu-soap. Documentaries employ techniques like observation, interviews, mise-en-scene, and dramatization to construct narratives that can be open or closed, linear or non-linear, single or multi-stranded in structure.
Modes of documentaries
The document discusses different modes or styles of documentaries: reflexive, poetic, observational, expository, and participatory. Reflexive documentaries acknowledge the filmmaker's presence and influence on the documentary. Poetic documentaries emphasize personal aspects through music and editing. Observational documentaries follow subjects to observe events without interfering. Expository documentaries expose controversial topics through commentary. Participatory documentaries recognize the filmmaker impacts what they film.
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Documentary genre
Documentaries aim to report real events through actual footage or reconstruction. They can include narrators who were present or not. Common documentary types include fully narrated, "fly on the wall" with no crew acknowledgement, and those using interviews, observation, and narration. Documentaries construct reality through techniques like mise-en-scène, dramatization, and exposition, even when using actual footage. While they may simply describe events, documentaries can provide analysis and knowledge to viewers.
Modes Of Documentary[1]
There are several types of documentary films that have evolved over time:
1. Expository documentaries use narration to directly address the audience and interpret what they see. This is one of the oldest forms.
2. Observational documentaries became possible in the 1960s as cameras got smaller and less intrusive, allowing filmmakers to record social interactions without interfering.
3. Participatory documentaries involve the filmmaker actively engaging with and asking questions of their subjects.
4. Reflexive documentaries from the 1980s demonstrate awareness of the process of interpreting documentaries and issues of realism.
5. Performative documentaries acknowledge the emotional and subjective aspects of documentaries.
Themes of documentaries
This document discusses various techniques used in documentaries to convey factual information and opinions in an engaging manner. It describes how documentaries utilize actual footage as well as voiceovers, interviews, archival materials, reenactments, montages, and exposition to explore topics and themes. Through these techniques, documentaries aim to inform viewers while also establishing perspectives on the issues or events presented.
Expository documentaries[1]
Expository documentaries expose a person or topic through the use of a commentator who narrates over images and video. They employ rhetorical questions, facts, opinions, and persuasive techniques to engage the audience. Channel 4 has produced over 500 expository documentaries on historical, biographical and other subjects, such as one about the Queen Mother's butler William Tallon and his life serving the royal family.
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The document discusses various techniques used in documentary films to present real events and their impact on spectators. It describes common documentary conventions like using natural lighting, interviews, voiceovers, and reconstructions to appear more authentic. However, it notes that these are just conventions and the selection and construction of footage can manipulate viewers just as fiction films do. Viewers must examine how 'real' events are presented and how that might influence their perspective.
Genre of my documentary
The document discusses different theories of documentary genres/modes:
1. Nichols' five modes - poetic, expository, participatory, observational, and reflexive. The poetic mode uses associations over continuity, while the expository uses voiceover to propose arguments.
2. De Bromhead adds three more modes - linear (classic storytelling), discursive (information-driven), and episodic (juxtaposed episodes building meaning).
3. The author wants their music documentary to blend the poetic and discursive modes for an emotive, factual film using past and present footage. They also cite performative and observational modes for a personal yet removed perspective.
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Documentaries aim to document real events using actual footage or reconstruction. While footage may be authentic, directors still construct the presentation through camerawork, lighting, and editing. To make documentaries coherent and engaging, filmmakers borrow techniques from fiction like pacing and structure. John Grierson first defined documentaries in 1926 as the "creative treatment of actuality." John Corner later identified five central documentary elements: observation to place viewers as eyewitnesses, interviews, dramatization of events, carefully composed shots, and an expository argument or point of view. Documentaries can be fully narrated, follow a "fly on the wall" approach, use mixed techniques, or be self-reflexive acknowledging the camera.
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The document discusses Bill Nichols' six documentary modes: poetic, expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative. It defines each mode and provides examples. The poetic mode uses subjective interpretation and avant-garde styles, while the expository mode features a direct commentary from an authoritative voice. The observational mode acts as a neutral, fly-on-the-wall perspective. The participatory and performative modes involve the filmmaker directly in the documentary events or story. The reflexive mode brings self-awareness to the documentary's construction of reality. The author concludes they will draw most from the expository mode for their own documentary.
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The document summarizes various types of documentaries including fully narrated, fly on the wall, mixed, self-reflexive, and docudrama. It discusses features used in documentaries like observation, interview, exposition, and dramatization. It also outlines different narrative structures for documentaries such as open, linear, single strand, closed, non-linear, and multi-strand. As an example, it notes that Coronation Street uses an open, linear, multi-strand narrative structure.
TV Documentaries - Styles and Influences
The document discusses various styles and influences of documentary films and television programs. It describes direct cinema style which emerged in the 1960s using portable audio-visual equipment and aiming for objectivity without narration. Examples include Don't Look Back and Gimme Shelter. Direct cinema influenced observational documentaries and reality television. Cinema verite also used documentary techniques but expressed the filmmaker's opinions. Institutional documentaries use direct cinema techniques to provide insights into places like hospitals. Docusoaps take common experiences and focus on personalities, often becoming popular with selective editing. Public affairs documentaries investigate current issues for public broadcasting channels. Video diaries and drama documentaries also descended from direct cinema styles.
Documentary genre and features
Documentaries aim to document real events using actual footage or reconstructions. They can use a narrator's voiceover or rely on interviews with participants. There are several types of documentaries including fully narrated, fly on the wall, mixed, self-reflective, docu-drama, and docu-soap. Key features include observation, interviews, carefully composed shots, a sense of drama, and exposition to advance the argument. While using real footage, documentaries still involve a high level of construction through directing participants and organizing settings.
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This document provides an overview of documentaries, including their objectives, historical origins, modes, subjectivity vs objectivity, styles, elements, and audience expectations. It begins with defining documentaries as factual films or programs about real world events meant to educate or entertain. It then discusses the objectives of documentaries like entertaining, educating, persuading, interrogating, promoting, and preserving. The document also covers the early history of documentaries dating back to 1895 and influential documentaries from different time periods and countries. It outlines several modes of documentaries like observational, expository, participatory, reflexive, poetic, and performative. Additionally, it discusses subjectivity versus objectivity and various styles like travel, diary form,
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This document provides an overview of key concepts in documentary film studies. It defines documentary film as the study of film language and how it relates to capturing reality. It discusses documentary filmmaker techniques like selection and construction that influence representation of real events. It also presents common exam questions on topics like whether documentaries can truly capture reality and if they are objectively constructed. Additionally, it outlines various modes of documentary like poetic, expository, observational, and reflexive. Finally, it discusses how representation in documentaries is mediated and how that representation may differ from reality.
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Documentaries aim to inform and educate audiences about factual topics. They may use techniques like interviews, archival footage, reenactments, and voiceovers to explain issues. Documentaries can have different structures, like linear (beginning, middle, end) or circular narratives. Theorists like Propp, Barthes, Todorov, and Levi-Strauss have analyzed narrative structures and how audiences interpret codes, conflicts, and opposites in stories. When making a documentary for college students, it's important to keep the visuals and audio interesting as well as informative to fully engage the audience.
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Documentaries aim to document real events using footage or reconstructions. They can use narration or rely on participants' perspectives. There are several types including fully narrated, fly on the wall, mixed, self-reflexive, docu-drama, and docu-soap. Documentaries employ techniques like observation, interviews, mise-en-scene, and dramatization to construct narratives that can be open or closed, linear or non-linear, single or multi-stranded in structure.
Modes of documentaries
The document discusses different modes or styles of documentaries: reflexive, poetic, observational, expository, and participatory. Reflexive documentaries acknowledge the filmmaker's presence and influence on the documentary. Poetic documentaries emphasize personal aspects through music and editing. Observational documentaries follow subjects to observe events without interfering. Expository documentaries expose controversial topics through commentary. Participatory documentaries recognize the filmmaker impacts what they film.
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There are several types of documentary films that have evolved over time:
1. Expository documentaries use narration to directly address the audience and interpret what they see. This is one of the oldest forms.
2. Observational documentaries became possible in the 1960s as cameras got smaller and less intrusive, allowing filmmakers to record social interactions without interfering.
3. Participatory documentaries involve the filmmaker actively engaging with and asking questions of their subjects.
4. Reflexive documentaries from the 1980s demonstrate awareness of the process of interpreting documentaries and issues of realism.
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2. De Bromhead adds three more modes - linear (classic storytelling), discursive (information-driven), and episodic (juxtaposed episodes building meaning).
3. The author wants their music documentary to blend the poetic and discursive modes for an emotive, factual film using past and present footage. They also cite performative and observational modes for a personal yet removed perspective.
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- Docusoaps combine elements of documentaries and soap
The Documentary Genre
Documentary as a genre documents real events using evidence such as actual footage and reconstructions. There are several types of documentaries including fully narrated, fly-on-the-wall, mixed, self-reflexive, docudrama, and docusoap. Key features of documentaries are observation, interviews, dramatization, mise-en-scene, and developing an exposition or line of argument.
Documentary genre
Documentaries represent a form of reality that is used to educate audiences through facts and research. They typically use techniques like actual footage, interviews, voiceovers, and reconstructions to non-fictionally portray real events or issues. There are different types of documentaries like realist, formalist, and subjective films that can have linear, open, or circular narrative structures. The goal is to inform viewers about the subject matter through documented evidence and examination of the topic.
Documentary History & Modes
A documentary film is a nonfiction motion picture that documents some aspect of reality. There are several types of documentaries including expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, performative, and poetic. Documentaries can serve to preserve, persuade, analyze, express, discuss, explore, intervene, and enlighten. They employ conventions like handheld camera work, narration, interviews, archival footage, and selective editing to construct meaning from real events and experiences. The history of documentaries dates back to the early actualities of the Lumiere brothers and has evolved through movements like direct cinema that aimed to present issues in an unmediated way.
The Theory of Documentaries
The document summarizes key aspects of documentaries based on information from John Fell, John Corner, and John Grierson. Some of the main points made are:
- Documentaries document real events and rely on evidence such as footage and interviews to report on a topic factually.
- They tell a story and aim to leave the audience with a point of view to consider through techniques like interviews, observations, and commentary.
- John Grierson coined the term "documentary" and aimed to influence audiences emotionally with his early socially-focused documentaries.
- Elements like a narrative structure with a beginning, middle, end and conflict help engage audiences, as does the use of sound, interviews and cutaways
Documentary genre
The document discusses different types of documentary genres including fully narrated, fly on the wall, mixed, self-reflexive, docu-drama, and docu-soap. It notes key features used in documentaries such as observation footage, interviews, mise en scene, dramatization, and exposition. The document also explains that while documentaries aim to document real events, there is still a high level of construction involved through directing participants and organizing footage.
Feature and types of documentaries
The document discusses the key features and types of documentaries. It identifies five central elements of documentaries: observation, interviews, dramatization, mise-en-scene, and exposition. It also outlines six main types of documentaries: fully narrated, fly on the wall, mixed, self-reflexive, docu-drama, and docu-soaps. Current affairs programs are also discussed and differentiated from documentaries.
types of documentaries
There are several types of documentary films described in the document. Poetic documentaries focus on evoking emotion through experiences and images rather than proving a point. Expository documentaries are heavily researched and aim to inform and persuade viewers by presenting a strong argument. Reflexive documentaries make audiences aware of the filmmaking process through self-aware techniques. Performative documentaries use a filmmaker's personal experiences and relationships to explore subjective truths about politics and society. Observational documentaries aim to record everyday life without intrusion in a fly-on-the-wall style. Participatory documentaries involve the filmmaker taking part in the topic to share their point of view.
Early documentary
This document discusses the nature and purpose of documentaries. It notes that documentaries aim to inform, educate, and entertain audiences while also addressing issues of objectivity, bias, and the filmmaker's perspective. The document examines different styles of documentaries, such as expository, observational, interactive, and reflexive styles. It also discusses influential documentary filmmakers like John Grierson and analyzes how documentaries can convey meaning and messages to viewers.
Media types
The document defines and compares different types of documentaries including expository, observational, participatory, and dramatic documentaries. It provides examples and describes key characteristics of each type. It concludes by outlining a planned hybrid documentary project that will combine elements of expository and participatory documentaries to examine issues of racial identity. The documentary will include a commentator providing facts and opinions to make an argument, and will also feature the filmmakers directly interacting and interviewing subjects on camera.
Documentary genres
A documentary aims to document real events using actual footage or reconstruction. It can use a narrator's voiceover or rely on participant interviews to provide context. There are several styles of documentaries including fully narrated, observational, mixed, self-reflexive, docu-drama, and docu-soap. Documentaries typically use techniques like observation footage, interviews, drama/reconstruction, and exposition to advance their narrative while acknowledging their constructed nature.
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The document discusses the key elements and conventions of documentaries. It explains that documentaries aim to document real events and issues using evidence such as interviews, reconstructed scenes, and observational footage. Some key elements discussed include observation, interviews, dramatization, mise-en-scene, and exposition. The document also examines the role of narrative, conflict, editing techniques, and how documentaries can be both art and reportage. It notes that documentaries rely on reconstructing real events and experiences to tell a story and advance an argument.
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- 1. Documentary A trailer by Megan Fulham
- 2. What is a documentary? • Documentaries do not present us with real life, instead they construct a particular version of the real world; • Documentaries use specific film techniques to inform, convince and persuade, as a means to position viewers to respond in specific ways; • Documentaries mediate meaning; they stand between the subject and the viewer, providing some version or interpretation of this subject (hence mediating meaning).
- 3. Documentary as a genre • A documentary is type of film which creates, through the use of certain conventions, the illusion that the events are not controlled by the filmmakers. • Social functions of documentary : – To record, reveal, or preserve; – To persuade or promote – To analyse or interrogate – To express • General aims of documentary (there are many more specific aims) – to entertain – to educate – to persuade – to inform
- 4. Audiences expectations • What we see and hear is grounded, in some way, in the real world; • The notion of objectivity, impartiality, fairness in representation; • That the audience wants to learn something
- 5. Modes of documentaries It is possible to divide documentary, itself a genre, into sub-genres or categories. It is argued that there are so many different types of documentary that we cannot classify them all clearly. Below is a broad list. See the following link for more details : • Expository documentary : uses a narrator (voice of authority) to address audience, explaining and interpreting "the reality" of what is being presented. • Interactive - the presence of the documentarist (documentary maker) is represented in the film; selection of material is foregrounded. • Observational - fly-on-wall; creates impression of events unfolding naturally in front of camera. (Eg : docu-soap like British TV show "Airport", following groups of airport workers through a 24 hour day.) • Reflexive - the process is as much about making a documentary as about the subject of the documentary. (Bowling for Columbine). Camera and crew are acknowledged, sometimes even part of the action (NB Columbine). • Docu-drama: Dramatic reconstruction of real-life events using actors or original participants.; fictionalised facts.
- 6. Forms and styles of documentaries • Travel / adventure • Diacritic form (like a diary) • Fly-on-the-wall (camera as observer) • Docu-soaps • Investigative • Docu-drama • Personal • Propaganda
- 7. Values of documentaries • Educative; • Illuminative (shedding light on a topic or issue); • Empathetic (engaging us emotionally with a subject); • Social and political functions (criticising, analysing, satirising).