Below are notes that I have taken from a reading by Bill Nichols called 'Representing Reality. They explain different types of documentaries which represent the subject of the film in different ways. However, my documentary has to be either observational or interactive (participatory).
-Situations and events, actions and issues may be represented in a variety of ways, there are a range of strategies that have arisen to represent text
-In documentary 4 modes of representation stand out as the dominant organisational patterns around which texts are structured: expository, observational, interactive (participatory) and reflexive
-The expository text addresses the viewer directly, with titles or voices that advance an argument about the historical world
-Observational documentaries stress the nonintervention of the filmmaker. They rely on editing to enhance the impression of lived or real time
-Interactive documentaries are where the filmmaker intervenes and interacts with the subject being filmed and illusory absence is shorn away
-Reflexive Documentaries work similarly to interactive but instead of hearing the filmmaker engage solely in an interactive fashion with the subject, we can now see or hear the filmmaker engage in commentary
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