Theoretical ResearchGianluca Misso

Post Modern Assessment • The Documentary is a representational, recorded version of the

everyday. • In documentaries, as an audience we expect to see reality, however this

‘reality’ that we expect to see is not reality. We see representations in documentaries and shots that have been composed to perfect something that

the filmmaker visualises. Everything we see in the documentary, in theory is different to any other director, as personally we all have different thoughts,

opinions and preconceptions. • In documentaries, the camera lens is the eye of both the filmmaker and the audience. The filmmaker displays to the audience what he/she wants them to see. Reality cannot be replicated due to the whole element of the camera and

the person behind it, not everything can be recorded (Everything is the reality), and once it starts recording reality is lost.

Post Modern Assessment • We can no longer expect to see reality as humanity's sense of

the real has disappeared due to the vast amount of mediated information being shaped by many different people who also do not know reality themselves. The representations that are

shown to replicate reality are what we as the audience see, and visualise in our minds. The on going use of the same

representations used in documentaries have now shaped our views and opinions on different topics, and therefore as

everyone has the same representations in mind then we will continue to push the same ideologies onto the next person.

Process Flow

• A representation is presented.

• A filmmaker/audience member obtains this representation and it becomes their view on a topic.

• The filmmaker produces a film with those representations.

• An audience watches the film.

• The representation is passed on and it aids the audience visualise a topic through the representation.

FilmmakerRepresentation Film Audience Representation passed on

Auteur Theory• The term auteur originates from France which translates as author,

which means that a director’s film reflects their creative vision. The Auteur theory was introduced in the 1950’s by French film directors like Francois Truffaut who advocated a focus on the

contribution directors made on the style and form of film, he quoted...

“A true film auteur is someone who brings something genuinely

personal to his subject instead of producing a tasteful, accurate but lifeless rendering of the original material”