hcurston@ucreative.ac.uk
Introduction to factual programming and the documentary genre
Angle
Commentary
Archive
Interview
Characters
Actuality
Sequences
Narrative
reconstruction
Fictional and Factual Programmes borrow from each others style and treatment.
All films - Fictional and factual - are constructed to some degree - i.e. whether it is in the pre, production or post-production stages - human intervention is unavoidable
Interventions affect the treatment of Reality and Truth.
Different genres of factual programmes, in particular, documentary films, involve different degrees of intervention.
In 2007 the BBC's reputation was seriously damaged by revelations of "fakery"
Competition Winners, in particular, had been 'faked' (e.g. blue peter and radio 1)
Fined nearly half a million
This led to more revelations and a complete review of the BBC's handling of competitions and factual programme-making
The degree of accepted intervention is as follows
Current Affairs
reporter led
relying less on character and actuality
factual programmes are an important part of the democratic process
Purpose of documentaries
has to be public interest, rather than just voyeurism,
Documentaries provide a particular view, interpretation or understanding of the evidence which they put before us.
Poetic
expository
educational
observational
reflexive documentaries
participatory
performative
Drama-Doc
Docu-Soap
Reality TV
Fact-Ent
Structured Reality
Multi-Camera observational
Bill Nichols
Formatting
Multi Cam
Presenter led
Magazine
Authored
Discussion/Debate
Conventions
Style - Shooting and Editing
Structure -
Format
Shots - eg handheld
Commentary
Narrator
Music
Experts
Conventions are often subject of satire - exposing the established methods by which stories are told but possible also limited.
Tension - Helps audiences stay interested
Revelation
Entertainment
Storytelling
style and content
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