The Documentary

the Oxford dictionary, documentaries use pictures or interviews with people involved in real events to provide a factual report on a particular subject. However, documentaries are much more than that, they educate the general public and make them aware of what is going on in the world and within our society, some are for entertainment purposes or can just be observational. Good morning / afternoon fellow documentary filmmakers, my name is Charlotte Thompson and the documentary I am presenting to you

What makes documentary filmmaking distinct to narrative filmmaking? There are a few contrasting objectives for both types of filmmaking that distinguishes them from each other. Simply put, narrative filmmaking is a movie with a pre-written script, actors and a story which is already crafted before they start shooting. while documentaries are filmmaking where real life events are captured, and a script is usually written afterwards. Narrative films rely on the three-act structure which goes Setup

Comparing Television Documentaries and Their Gratifications In this Essay I am going to watch four different documentaries, all with different topics. I will analyse them and then work out how they offer gratifications to the audiences. I will write about what affect they have and why they are used. I watched four different documentaries with four different topics: Historical (Pirates - The Golden Age), Mystery (Vanished - The plane that disappeared), Nature (Blue Planet)

The novel Documentary Storytelling by Sheila Curran Bernard delves deep into the behind the scenes of the development of documentary. She writes powerfully and informatively on the structure of documentary and how time on screen can be used. In the chapter entitled Planning and Pitching, Bernard discusses the importance of selecting a cast of experts with a wide range of viewpoints (Bernard 148). I agree with Bernard that having a diverse range of opinions may add credibility to the film, but I must

positively. This was because we only wanted to hear the good parts of middle school. When we came up with the topic for our documentary, we had to decide if it was going to be subjective or objective; we decided to choose objective. This is because we thought it would be easier to work with. The documentary is mainly objective with a little bit of subjective in it. In the documentary, we recorded it in a way so that we couldn’t be seen. We said to everyone to wave and look at the camera so that they seemed

Documentary reflection The assignment task for Term two was for a small group of people (three), to create a documentary and then each person to write a reflection. Before starting this documentary, we studied the history and development of documentaries. We then looked more into how different documentaries, Spellbound (objective) and Bowling for Columbine (subjective), how each separate style was created and made and how each different style affected people. We ran into conflict when we were choosing

What is the purpose of the documentary? The purpose of the documentary was about implementing green walls and to show people how integrating nature within our infrastructure will improve the quality of life for humans, nature and our planet. This film was also created to change our perspective of how we think about reintegrating nature in dense and fully developed communities so that it not only fits into the functionality of our infrastructure but it also can restore our plants and wildlife. What

A documentary is ‘the artistic representation of actuality’ as said by John Grierson. A documentary is not real life, but only a representation of the real world. There are two different types of documentaries; objective and subjective. Objective documentaries normally refer to impartial, based on observed facts and is unbiased. Whilst subjective documentaries refer to a personal interpretation of facts or events that is not impartial. This documentary on high school relationships is subjective as

of what they believe is fabricated nonsense.” -Buzz Osborne, Melvins Documentaries are often assumed to be credible and filled with factual information; they do, after all, document reality. This is not always the case though. There are many factors that determine the reliability of documentaries: the editing, the director’s agenda, the film’s style, confirmation bias, and choice of interviewees, among other things. Documentaries are a representative medium, after all, and although they are able to

Documentaries serve as an insight for the lives of individuals striving to change the way societies think. These individuals bring to light issues that lack coverage and rarely cross the minds of the populous. Many documentaries illustrate their story-telling in ways that differentiate themselves from other types of cinematography. Documentaries utilize master and close up shots to create a close connection between the subject of the documentary and its viewers. In Herzog’s Grizzly Man, Herzog pieces