0 Research into Documentary/ Genre/ Modes. (Emma Jolly)

Documentary:

A documentary is a type of film which is created to highlight a certain subject of reality. A documentry can be either a short or long film but either way points out the subject matter.

Documentary points:
* A broad category of moving pictures.
* Highlights apsects of reality
* Orignally seen as movies.
* Once shot as a film stock now includes both video and digital production.
* Created for either Direct-to video or for a television programme.
* First documentary aired in 1926 and was a review.

Genre:

Genre is the the title used for the categorie or literature a type of media falls into. These types of media can include; music, film, poetry and literature. A type of Genre highlights the structure of the media and and the meaning.

Genre (terms of documentary):

*Reality television is the genre of a televison programme.
* Unscripted, dramatic or humorous siturations.
* Film on reality events
* Realistic, original, 'everyday people' (non-actors).

Modes (documentary):

A Poetic Mode:
Resassembles fragments of the world, creating historical materical  into more abstract events, lyrical form.
( Associated with the 1920's)

The Expository Mode:
Directly adressed to the audience, social issues created into a argumentive or debative way, 'voice of god' narration.
( Associated with the 1930's)

The Observational Mode:
Technology advanced by the 1960's when cameras become smaller and lighter, less control was required over lighting, leaving social-actors to react with each other, can be known as 'direct cinema'.

The Participatory Mode:
Encounter between film-maker and subject is recorded with the film-maker engages in the subject of the documentary, direct questions on the subject, experiences shared.
Throught this type of mode tha subject of the documentary is made clear.

The Reflexive Mode:
Reflects the process of reading documentary, enages in issues of realism, ackowledges the questions and judgements of the viewer.
( Accosiated with the 1980's)

The Perfomative Mode:
Reviews the emotional and subjective aspects of the documentary, presents the ideas of the context, different views and meaning to different people, Usually autobiography nature, contempoary mode.
( Accosiated with post-moderism )


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