3. The purpose of documentaries is to
document something that actually
happened. It can be shown using real
footage or a reconstruction. It can use a
narrators voice over to anchor the
meaning or rely on the participants
themselves with perhaps an occasional
interjection by the narrator.
4. Documentaries are not just about facts
instead facts can be used to create
socially critical arguements, inviting the
audience to draw their own conclusions.
5. Central to documentaries are that they
focus on and question actual people and
events often in a social context placing
the audience in a position to form an
opinion about who or what we are seeing.
