A link to an article from the Tate regarding documentaries,
which is titled ‘the aesthetics of documentary’. Key points include:
- The job of the documentarist is to let reality direct the documentarist by using unobtrusive equipment, being alert to what is going on and being patient.
- Documentary is an art and is as much about shots, cuts, structure and rhythm as fiction film.
- The greatest national documentary cultures have been those of japan, America, Russia, Britain and France but Britain has been the most interesting with the relationship between reality and art and with a key figure being John Grierson.
- By 1975, the means of capturing reality, and editing it had become radically simplified and cheap and the trend grew.
- By the early 1990s television documentaries were less likely to be one offs and more likely to have run of six or twelve films with a common title such as True Stories or Wife Swap.
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