2. What is a documentary?
Consisting of or based on official documents.
Using pictures or interviews with people involved in real events to
provide a factual report on a particular subject.
3. What makes a good documentary?
Relating to target audience
Interesting main subject
Entertaining element
Finding a focus point
Inspire don’t lecture
4. What types of documentaries exist?
There are 7 types of documentaries:
- Reality TV
- Fly on the wall
- Docusoaps
- Docudrama
- Fully narrative
- Mixed
- Self reflected
5. Docusoaps
It is an observational, long running documentary series which follows
an individual or group of people. Docusoaps started in 1990’s, it was a
popular documentary genre because people liked the real soap
opera.
Example of this; Only Way is essex, Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
6. Reality TV
It is factual TV which progressed between 1989 and 1999. This type
of TV gives you useful information in the form of entertainment.
7. Fly on the wall
A fly on the wall is when the camera is unseen or the people ignore it,
this makes the characters act as if the cameras were not there.
Therefore the cameras record the event which are unrolled.
Examples: Big Brother
8. Mixed
A mixed documentary is a combination of interviews, observation,
actuality footage, archive material and narration.
The narrator links the story together, it also advances the narrative.
9. Self Reflexive
The type of documentary is when the camera follows a person or
group of people around. The person/people know that the camera is
there and they stop to talk to it.
10. Docudrama
A docudrama is a reconstruction or re-enactment of something which
has actually happened. Shows events which have happened at the
time.
11. Fully Narrated
This documentary is when the narrates the whole way through the
documentary. It is used to convey the exposistion, and used to make
sense of what they see. They dominate what is happening.
12. Documentary forms: Reflexive
In which the film maker acknowledges their presence- they are in front
of the camera and give some narrative guidance.
Observational: Being there as events unfold-
these documentaries tend to follow a person or
event and document their journey as it occurs. The
camera remains as unobtrusive as possible,
allowing the audience to make up their own mind.
13. Expository
An analysis and exposition of a person of a person or topic, e.g
Micheal Moore.
Participatory
Welcomes direct engagement between filmmaker and subject(s)-
the filmmaker becomes part of the events being recorded.
14. Tourettes- BBC Three
An observational documentary,
watching events unfold.
Voiceover, Reggie Yates
Interviewees; people with Tourettes
Created to entertain but also inform
and create sympathy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1
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