Component 2 - Section B Documentary - Types
- Documentary endeavours to document rather than fictionalise - Ideas of representation and the 'real' - Reality and Realism - Art: Realism vs Impressionism - Produced with choices, with conscious and unconscious bias Bill Nichols: 6 modes or styles of documentary: - Observational - Participatory - Poetic - Expository - Reflexive - Performative Observational: - Emerges in the 1960s with the rise of new production technology - Notion of the hidden camera and camera-person, aided by lighter and more portable equipment for being in the field - Hidden process of filmmaking - in order to observe 'real' life unobserved - 'fly on the wall' - Idea that reality emerges when it is not produced or re-created artificially - Examples: 100% White (2000), Sisters in Law (2005), The Family (1974) Performative: - Questions raised about knowledge - Material gathered from wide-ranging sources - Idea of knowledge and meaning as subjective rather than objective Poetic: - Document...