DOCUMENTARY - A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration.
1. Poetic documentaries - is a personal abstract that emphasizes some aspects person’s life and presents these aspects via music, camera shots and angles and the editing. It can also be quite artistic in the way it is presented.
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E Expository documentaries - Direct access to the audience. There are social issues assembled into an argumentative frame with a narration voice-over emphasizing what is happening.
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Observational documentaries - where life is lived and observed and how people react in different situations.
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P participatory documentaries - where the events and situations presented are influenced and altered by the presence of the filmmaker
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Reflective documentaries - demonstrate consciousness of the process of reading documentary, and engage actively with the issues of realism and representation, acknowledging the presence of the viewer and the modality judgements they arrive at.
Performative documentaries - acknowledges the emotional and subjective aspects of Documentary and presents ideas as a part of a context having different meanings for different people and are often autobiographical in nature.
Examples
Poetic documentaries - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_u_8ajoo0
Expository documentaries - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJXt5R8ijE
Observational documentaries - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_9sfXIhe9U
Participatory documentaries - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWzcGXUWsI8
Reflective documentaries - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4237pS55h4
Performative documentaries - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6osXJcLg_oo&feature=related
Codes and conventions - The voice over, diegetic, non- diegetic sounds, Interviews with experts, use of texts/titles
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