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Direct Cinema aimed for objectivity in the 1960s by simply filming events without narration or interviews, leaving conclusions up to audiences. Cinema Verite used handheld cameras to make scenes feel realistic and expressed filmmakers' opinions. Documentaries since have taken varied forms like fly-on-the-wall insights into institutions, public affairs programs investigating topics, and docu-soaps that entertain through fast editing and cliffhangers while focusing on ordinary people's lives.
Styles and influences pp
- 2. Direct Cinema Documentary produced in the 1960’s aimed at objectivity: No narrator, simply fly on the wall filming of events and people, leaving it up to the audience to draw conclusions. It contrasts to ‘authored documentary’. Rules: • - No interviews • - No rehearsals • - No staged events or commentary • - No film lights • - No dissolve edits to be used
- 3. Cinema Verite Institutional European film making in 1960’s, uses hand held camera to make scenes realistic, CV believed film makers opinions should be expressed. Documentaries Fly on the wall, insights into institutions such as; hospitals and airlines. Public Affair For example; ‘Panorama’ ‘Dispatches’. PSB = Public Service Broadcast.
- 4. Docu Soaps  Look through eyes of the public  Fast Editing  Multi-Stranded narratives  Often end on a cliff hanger  Emphasis on the entertainment