Friday, 24 January 2014

In class notes 24/01/2014.

what is a documentary?
- informative / factual style.
- a representation of real life.
- visual.
- report.
- exploring.
- recording evidence.
documentation (footage of lecture)

and that leads to the question of modes of documentary and unpack the modes.
'creative treatment of actuality'.
viewing of <king of laughter>, 1 style 2 engaging content and form 3 how do we know it's a documentary? because the familiarity of the public scene, filming location. 
-because of the voice over.
- fact…it was not acted up.
- General public <erics' secret>.
1 representing the historical world by making an indexical record of it.
2 represents the historical world by shaping this record from a distinct point of view.

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