Wednesday 8 September 2010

Documentary definition and purpose

The purpose of the documentary is to document and report with evidence something that has actually happened. It can show this by using actuality footage or reconstruction. It can use a narrators voice over to anchor the meaning or rely on the participants themselves, with perhaps the occasional interjection by the narrator.

John Grieson- General post office film in 1930's defined documentary as "the creative threatment of actuality"

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