Documentary Film

The documentary is the result of a storyteller (narrator), the witnesses of an event interviews from experts, recording public opinion polls. So also with the atmosphere, the scene that looked real, both pieces of the picture of an event either directly or indirectly, and the ingredients come from the archives found. Everything that has a typical element and has a history in the development and expansion of the documentary as a form of cinematic.

        All this must be arranged, recycled, and also arranged presentation. Sometimes structure in documentary filmmaking have to determine the point of view, lighting, shot size (type of shot), etc., in order to get the final achievement of the desired.

        Documentary films are often overlooked and considered art because it tends to be 'news' (journalism) in the world of television, documentary film began questioned, modified, and overturned yng aspect refers to the aesthetic approach to documentary films and non-fiction other.

According to Richard Barsam of 'non-fiction film' indicates the kinds of films regarded as a documentary, which has ideas and code of ethics of the same documentary that is:

• documentary

• exploration films

• factual films

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• Movies etnografik

• exploration films

• propaganda film

• direct cinema

        Richard Barsam also put the elements of a category in determining the interpretation of the material and the kinds of films are far more unique and diverse elements of verbal and visual commonly used in the documentary are:

Visual elements:

• Observasionalisme reactive; material taken directly from the filmed subjects. Related to the observation, the accuracy by steering the camera or the director.

• proactive Observasionalisme; materials selected by selecting a specific material, communicate with the previous observations by the director or the director camera.

• Mode illustrative; describe direct approach to a documentary about what was said by the narrator (who recorded his voice as a voice over).

• Mode associative; trying to use pieces of documentary images in a variety of ways. The approach is expected in terms of metaphor and symbolic information that is in the movie literally, can be represented.