Below are notes from a reading by Rabiger called 'What is Documentary'. These notes will help me over the course of my project as I keep in mind what documentaries, especially successful ones, consist of.
-Documentary is a rare medium in which the common person takes on large, important issues and shakes up society
-Directing a documentary involves handling a certain amount of power which brings ethical issues and moral responsibility to the director
-The notions of documentaries explore the mysteries of actual people in actual situations
-Documentary always seems concerned with uncovering further dimensions to actuality and at the same time implying social criticism
-Concern for quality and justice of human life lifts the documentary from a factual world and attempts to put emphasis on moral and ethical issues, scrutinizing organisation of human life and developing a humane conscience in its audience
-Successful documentaries tell a good story, have engaging characters, narrative tension and an integrated point of view (much like fiction) whilst still displaying real life
-Successful documentaries also seem to centre around some aspect of human development, no matter how minimal, this is done to leave audiences with some degree of hope
-Filmmaking is a series of significant choices: 1) What to shoot? 2) How to shoot it 3)What to use in the film? 4)How most effectively to use it
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