CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cinematic Techniques, Lie Detection, Direct Cinema
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They need not be narrative, but they are. Invested in telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end (just like fiction films) stories we tell, nature documentary: story about animals, confrontation, takes place in the real world. Categorical: inform an audience about aspects of a subject in a systematic fashion. Rhetorical: pursue audience to adopt a perspective about a subject. Can function less as stories more catalogues or arguments. First used the term documentary in 1926 by john grierson: Defined it as the creative treatment of actuality references actuality and acknowledges raw material as reality, filmmaking process transforms the raw material creatively. Creative treatment: suggests the various technical choices always shape the social reality that is scrutinizes. Conventions that inspire truth capacity to re-present the world rather than represent the world (using real people, shoot on location, visible evidence of the subject).
