Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. A 'documentary film' was originally shot on film stock — the only medium available — but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas. "Documentary" has been described as a "film making practise, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.
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Cinema Verite
Cinéma vérité, "truthful cinema"; is a style of documentary film making, combining naturalistic techniques with stylised cinematic devices of editing and camerawork, staged set-ups, and the use of the camera to provoke subjects. It is also known for taking a provocative stance toward its topics.
There are subtle yet important differences among these terms. Direct Cinema is largely concerned with the recording of events in which the subject and audience become unaware of the camera's presence. Operating within what Bill Nichols, an American historian and theoretician of documentary film, calls the "observational mode," direct cinema is essentially what is now called a fly on the wall documentary. Many therefore see a paradox created by drawing attention away from the reality of the camera and simultaneously declaring the discovery of a cinematic truth.
1. What TV channel is it broad casted it on?
2. What is the title of the Documentary?
3. What type of Documentary is it?
- Historical: The rise and fall of the Egyptian Empire.
- Biographical: The life of Sir Stanley Matthews.
- Investigation: The trust behind the disappearance of Madeline McCann.
- Artistic: The work of Van Gogh.
- Wildlife: The anatomy of the Blue Whale.
- Political: The New Labour Years.
- Drama: Margret Thatcher.
- Reality: The Kardasians.
- Celebrity: David Beckham's new tattoo.
- Scripted Reality: TOWIE.
- Narrative Structure: linear/non-linear
- Editing: fast, slow, dissolves, fades etc
- Voice-over: narration, register, tone, model of address
- Archive footage: type, style, place, time-period
- Graphics: pie charts, images
- Text: captions, subtitles, banners etc
6. What are the messages and meanings behind the documentary - What is it trying to communicate to the audience?
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