Documentary key words

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  • Created on: 06-04-18 10:27

1. what is REALISM?

  • The process of filtering and changing a media text.
  • The filmmakers to decision to change all elements of a true story.
  • It is the artistic attempt to re-create life as accurately as possbile.
  • To make something that appears to be real and trustworthy.
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2. what is Authenticity?

  • A technique where the filmmaker uses close ups and music to allow the audience to connect with the film.
  • Where the audience believes that a person in right in a documentary because they do the most talking.
  • Something that appears to be believable and trustworthy.
  • It is the artistic attempt to re-create life as accurately and honestly as possible.

3. what is REPRESENTATION?

  • The way in which the media portrays a particular group, community, topic, idea or experience.
  • The appearance of something being real or true.
  • The way in wich we see people in TV and film.
  • The process of filtering/ adpating or changing a media text to produce a message.

4. what is MEDIATION?

  • Where one media text has no one true meaning, the audience's opinions create the meaning of the text.
  • The process of filtering, adapting or changing a media text to produce a mesage. It suggests the 'real' has undergone change.
  • The power to meditate and levitate at the same time.
  • The appearance of something being real or true.

5. what is VERISIMILITUDE?

  • The appearance of something being real or true.
  • When filmmakers change the original story.
  • When something which is wrong appears to be real or true.
  • A technique used by Steven Speilberg in all his films.

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