3. ๏ The purpose of documentaries is to
document something that actually
happened. It can be shown using real
footage or a reconstruction. It can use a
narrators voice over to anchor the
meaning or rely on the participants
themselves with perhaps an occasional
interjection by the narrator.
4. ๏ Documentaries are not just about facts
instead facts can be used to create
socially critical arguements, inviting the
audience to draw their own conclusions.
5. ๏ Central to documentaries are that they
focus on and question actual people and
events often in a social context placing
the audience in a position to form an
opinion about who or what we are seeing.
