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50 Media Studies - II ELECTRONIC MEDIA

b) The actor’s direction. Try to avoid these as much as possible.
Both the director and actor will appreciate it.

c) The speech.

STRUCTURE AND FORMAT

DOCUMENTARIES

Documentaries are classified according to the techniques used in
filming:

1. Raw footage

2. Expository
3. Observational

4. Interactive

5. Poetic - reflexive and performative

Iconistic and narrative films of fiction defines genre, but documentaries
are categorized by the way they are shot.

1. Raw Footage

It’s footage that has been shot, but not edited in any way; the film

that the film maker begins with.
Ways to structure raw footage:

# Narrative - telling a story.

# Argumentative - Michael Moore’s “9/11” makes an argument.

# Categorical - representing a category of reality; no argument, no
storytelling