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What We Learned 
About Documentaries 
Ahmad Wahab
What is a Documentary 
 A documentary is when someone documents a real life 
event, that has happened 
 The purpose of a documentary is to make a point. Most 
documentaries aim to inform, investigate and educate their 
audience but in more modern documentaries, they aim to 
also entertain the audience since this will keep and attract 
the audiences attention, which allows them to make profit 
 A documentary has to be truthful and factual in order to be 
classed as a documentary and will also try to either 
preserve, persuade, analyse, express, discuss, explore, 
intervene or enlighten the audience on the certain subject
Documentary Theorists 
 Famous Scottish documentary maker John Grierson, 
who made documentaries for the cinema instead of TV, 
believes that the focus of a documentary should always 
be on reality. "In documentary we deal with the actually 
and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I 
may use the phrase, is deeper than that.” 
 Michael Robinger said in 'Directing the Documentary,' 
that "Documentaries explore the mysteries of actual 
people in actual situations". He also says that 
documentary's will change and evolve and therefore 
never stay the same
Audience 
 In the modern age the audience has more choices 
because of audience fragmentation. This is 
caused from digital and satellite television, and more 
from the use of narrow casting which means there are 
specific channels devoted to documentaries e.g. 
Eden, Natural History, Discovery Chanel
Some of the key features of 
documentries 
 Observation-This is when they are observing or monitoring 
something or someone 
 Interview-Interviews with people who are specialised in the 
subject, or with 'Voxpop' to show the general public's views and 
opinions 
 Dramatisation-Reconstruction of a specific event relating to the 
subject 
 Mise en Scene-This is how the documentary is layered out which 
effects the different representations and impressions the 
documentary gives 
 Exposition-This is when background information and statistics on 
the subject is introduced to the audience

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Group 4 Post 3

  • 1. What We Learned About Documentaries Ahmad Wahab
  • 2. What is a Documentary  A documentary is when someone documents a real life event, that has happened  The purpose of a documentary is to make a point. Most documentaries aim to inform, investigate and educate their audience but in more modern documentaries, they aim to also entertain the audience since this will keep and attract the audiences attention, which allows them to make profit  A documentary has to be truthful and factual in order to be classed as a documentary and will also try to either preserve, persuade, analyse, express, discuss, explore, intervene or enlighten the audience on the certain subject
  • 3. Documentary Theorists  Famous Scottish documentary maker John Grierson, who made documentaries for the cinema instead of TV, believes that the focus of a documentary should always be on reality. "In documentary we deal with the actually and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use the phrase, is deeper than that.”  Michael Robinger said in 'Directing the Documentary,' that "Documentaries explore the mysteries of actual people in actual situations". He also says that documentary's will change and evolve and therefore never stay the same
  • 4. Audience  In the modern age the audience has more choices because of audience fragmentation. This is caused from digital and satellite television, and more from the use of narrow casting which means there are specific channels devoted to documentaries e.g. Eden, Natural History, Discovery Chanel
  • 5. Some of the key features of documentries  Observation-This is when they are observing or monitoring something or someone  Interview-Interviews with people who are specialised in the subject, or with 'Voxpop' to show the general public's views and opinions  Dramatisation-Reconstruction of a specific event relating to the subject  Mise en Scene-This is how the documentary is layered out which effects the different representations and impressions the documentary gives  Exposition-This is when background information and statistics on the subject is introduced to the audience