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 The documentarygenre

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Defnition-

It is a actual genre. The purpose o a documentadocument, i.e. to report with evidence somethingactually happened.

It can show this by using actuality ootage orreconstruction. It can use narrators voice over to

the meaning or rely on participant themselves witoccasional interjections rom the narrator.

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 John orner !

• "hat distinguishes documentaries is the portrayal o the recorded soimages o actuality.

• # good documentary should be about the topic and not the presentahowever the content alone without any intervention rom the producseldom be enough to ma$e a coherent let alone interesting. To give sense o pace ad structure they draw on many o the characteristicstheir use o, or e%ample camera angles, lighting, raming and editin

 John &rieson !

• 'e coined the phrase documentary in ()*+. 'e defned it as the cretreatment o actuality.

 

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eatures o adocumentary

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observation

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 The programme ma$ers pretend that the camerunseen and just observes what is going on. This the audience in the position o an eyewitness to

• #n e%ample o this is */ hours in #01.

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Interviews

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Documentaries rely on interviews, the interviewecommonly not see or heard. ut aways are usedillustrate what the interviewers is tal$ing about.

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Dramati2ation

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Documentaries use a sense o drama throughobservation elements so the audience is an eyewto dramatic events.

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3ise-en-sen

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Documentary ma$es careully compose shots sothey contain the images they want the audience

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1%position

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 The line o argument in a documentary is callede%position. In other words the e%position is whatdocumentary is saying.

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Di4erent types odocumentary

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ully narrated

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"here an o4 screen voice over conveys the e%p The voice over is used to ma$e sense o the visusounds. The narration style is reerred to as the god.

• or e%ample, most natural history documentarie

ully narrated.

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ly on the wall

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 These documentaries rely almost totally on obse The cameras are let to record the subjects withintererence. The camera is un$nown and notac$nowledged.

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5el re6ective

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"hen the subjects o the programme ac$nowledpresence o the camera and oten spea$ directlyprogramme ma$er.

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Docudrama

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# enactment o events as they were supposed toactually happened. The elements o the argumee%position are combine with those o a fctionalnarrative.

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Docusoap

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 This ollows the daily lives o particular individuausually within a designated occupation over a nuo programmes.