Chapter 6: Documentaries

• Media projects such as movies or television shows that provide a factual record or report.

• Narrative Films

• Documentaries

• Westerns

• Found Footage Film

• The study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture

• Anthropology

• Psychology

• Sociology

• Archaeology

• The goal of this type of media project is to report, or to make complicated stories involving multiple points of view easier for the general audience to understand, and to educate viewers about the facts of their world.

• Narrative Films

• Entertainment

• News

• Propoganda

This type of media will put out information used out of context to try to mislead and influence thinking.

• Narrative Films

• Entertainment

• News

• Propoganda

A fictionalized version of a supposedly true story that may adhere to the stylistic parameters of a documentary.

• Docudrama

• Newsreel

• Metafiction

• Propoganda

• Fiction that is self-reflexive, commenting on its own existence,

• or where characters seem aware they are in a movie or book.

• Surrealism

• Found footage Film

• Metafiction

• Expressionism

• A style of storytelling that visualizes the workings of the subconscious mind.

• Surrealism

• Found footage Film

• Metafiction

• Expressionism

• A style of media creation that attempts to reflect how the world feels more than to document it realistically.

• Surrealism

• Found footage Film

• Metafiction

• Expressionism

• Finished fictional works such as "The Blair Witch Project" that are presented as if documentaries.

• Docudrama

• Found footage Film

• Metafiction

• Propoganda

• New and experimental work that challenges the status quo or the way things are done.

• Cinema vérité

• Mise-en-scène

• Avant-garde

• Old-gaurd