Documentary Mini Task
What is
Documentary?
A
documentary is a report, which consists usually of other people’s opinions
around a certain subject, in which people would go to the place gather
information and interview people for more primary data. This will all help to answer the certain
question surrounding the documentary in question.
Key features
of expository documentaries
These
documentaries consist of a narrator speaking directly towards you giving
multiple rhetorical questions, which engage the audience to be interested in
the question and the answers to the question. It is usually a strong male voice
to sound more serious perhaps to get the point across to people watching. Some
more of the persuasive techniques they use are hard-hitting facts and opinions
to the subject.
Observational
Documentaries
In this
there is still a narrator but not always, sometimes there would not be a
narrator at all and just there to observe and lets the viewer make their own
opinion on the matter, but if there is a narrator they would not give their
opinion and instead just say what is going on. They don’t use persuasive
techniques as they don’t want to seem biased it’s like there is no question
rather you make up your own question from this and give your own answers the
data is just there. Some good examples of this are David Attenborough’s wild
life documentaries.
Interactive
Documentaries
With these,
they are interested in really getting you involved by asking you questions,
showing graphics of text and graphs. This is done for you to formulate your own
answer along with regular camera with regular camera work to reflect regular
lives and be as if you are there adding to the interactive aspect. They usually
revolve around regular everyday life and use graphics for you to answer for yourself,
as it is mean to reflect people’s everyday lives. Some examples of this is the
2009 interactive documentary Prison Valley, showing the everyday life of
prisoners making you understand how they feel.
Reflective
Documentaries
A reflective
documentary is a more experimental type of documentary in which the producers
do not mind showing camera crews or any behind the scenes footage and make the
audience as interested in the documentary subject as they are with everything
else. Some examples that use this technique are documentaries made by people
such as Louis Theroux and nick broom field who are for making these type of documentary
in which they would not hide the camera crew and act quite natural even when
interviewing people.
Performative
Documentaries
This type of
documentary incorporate the filmmaker as the main character as he is placed in
these places to set a scenario, in which is usually quite biased and somewhat exaggerated.
An example of this would be the Michael Moore documentary Bowling for Columbine
(2002) in which there is a scene where Michael Moore is in a bank and shows how
easy it is to just get a gun at a bank.
Conclusion
When it
comes to creating film you should always have to have some sort of moral to
forward the narrative, and documentary is no different as it is based on the
question or idea of the documentary. You should provide real evidence, and not exaggerate
like you would a Hollywood movie, as documentaries are not that its more having
an idea and trying to inform and get your own point across and showing reality,
as otherwise you get the wrong idea of a documentary and is more like propaganda.
The characters where intended to be as characteristic as possible to make up for the lack of speech, so this is why I decided to use toys, as they fit my idea of gathering a new audience due to the child like characteristics of the toys. I think the over 16's will appreciate this approach, as it applies to different types of people who will relate to the theme and style of the esting. The characters will b every dynamic in their movements so i can take advantage of the maneuverability of the the toys especially the action men how i can twist and turn them to move and stand how I want to. The action men have a rough exterior, and are portrayed that way in their movements with their arms crossed being hesitant, but at the end they will end up joining in on the fun the other toys are having. the other soft toys are portrayed how they are designed so they all move differently as the black creature will move around on his side because he struggles to stand up.
