genre analysis and themes
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Genre Analysis and Themes
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�John Grierson was the person who came up
with the term ‘Documentary’ in 1928.
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• The purpose of documentaries is to document something that was factual and actually happened. The documentary can be shown using real footage or a reconstruction. It can use a narrators voice over to anchor the intended meaning or rely on the participants of the event with perhaps an occasional interjection by the narrator.
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• Documentaries are not just about facts instead facts can be used to create socially critical arguments, inviting the audience to come to their own conclusions.
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Central to documentaries are that they focus on and question real people and events mainly in a social context placing the audience in a position to form an opinion about who or what we are viewing.