Documentary Journalism - TV
04/03/19 POST ONE Modes of Documentary In the past, I believed that documentary was a narrow, easily defined medium that offered very little in the way of creative expression. Once, I even thought that documentary filmmaking involved merely pointing a camera at something vaguely interesting and then clicking play and hoping for the best. I was wrong. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Documentaries are a hugely diverse medium, that offers creatives plenty of opportunities to express themselves artistically and challenge themselves narratively. Most importantly, it’s an inclusive medium, and through the various ‘modes’ of documentaries, any filmmaker can find a niche within the practice. For the more artistically inclined, there is the ‘poetic mode’ which allows documentarians the opportunity to dispense with narrative convention and be m...