2. OVERVIEW
• Documentaries are a medium in which to record, and
reconstruct ‘reality’.
• However, as Gauntlett suggests, as soon as you ‘try to
capture reality, you destroy it’.
• This suggests that all documentary footage is in fact a
construction, and is subjective, rather than objective as
the audience might think, in accordance with the
directions of the director.
3. INTERVIEWEES
• We didn’t show take a cinema-vérité approach of showing the
interviewer in any of our shots, nor include the questions
being asked on screen, which gave the suggestion that our
interviewees were talking freely.
• This appears to the audience to be real, as they are drawn
into an everyday reality which they don’t feel the need to
question.
• However, we have used our documentary as a way to
encourage the two points of view about government health
advice, and therefore our questions pushed our interviewee’s
answers in specific directions.
• This injects a sense of inherent subjectivity as a result of our
directions, making it impossible for the documentary to portray
and accurate representation of the everyday.
