The document discusses different forms and conventions used in documentary filmmaking, including overheard exchanges, testimony, and exposition. It also defines six modes of documentary: poetic, expository, observational, participatory/interactive, reflexive, and performative. Finally, it discusses the relationship between reality, mediation, and representation in documentaries.

1. FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

4. Reality The real world Mediation The process of producing the film. Representation The text itself. A ‘representation’ of the real world. The way someone or something is represented is not necessarily reality. For example you may feel the representation of your academic performance In your last report does not reflect reality . Although I would beg to differ!! Representations can often be subjective rather than objective. REPRESENTATION OF THE ‘REAL’