Documentary Mini-Task

A documentary is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality.

Expository documentaries speak directly to the viewer, often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voice-over or titles. The material is tightly scripted and often accompanied by a voice-over narration - which is delivered by either an expert or an actor.

Observational documentaries involves emphasizing the documentary filmmaker’s engagement in observing the subject’s daily life and circumstances and documenting them with an unobtrusive camera.

Interactive documentaries are different to film documentaries as in interactive documentaries the user has to interact with, or navigate through the story.

Reflexive documentaries is usually associated with experimental documentaries, where the viewer is just as interested about how the film is constructed as they are the actual content.

Performative documentaries emphasizes the filmmaker’s own involvement with the subject.

A documentary is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality.

Expository documentaries speak directly to the viewer, often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voiceover or titles. The material is tightly scripted and often accompanied by a voice-over narration - which is delivered by either an expert or an actor.

Observational documentaries involves emphasizing the documentary filmmaker’s engagement in observing the subject’s daily life and circumstances and documenting them with an unobtrusive camera.

Interactive documentaries are different to film documentaries as in interactive documentaries the user has to interact with, or navigate through the story.

Reflexive documentaries is usually associated with experimental documentaries, where the viewer is just as interested about how the film is constructed as they are the actual content.

Performative documentaries emphasizes the filmmaker’s own involvement with the subject.

An Introduction To The News

Nightly News Broadcast (full) – May 20, 2018 | NBC Nightly News

Stories covered

Ø  Santa Fe High School shooting

Ø  Kilauea volcano

Ø  Political science

Ø  #MeToo

Ø  Penpals

The starting sequence begins with a woman saying about what will be shown on the episode. It shows different pictures and videos of the topic she’s talking about, I feel as though this is so people can get a quick insight to what they will be watching and so they can see if they would like to watch the whole video. The audio that is being used is just the woman talking about what will happen in the episode as well as dramatic music playing in the background.

The first newsreader/presenter is a woman who’s around 30-40 years old, and her role is to start the news off and deliver the script in a professional and clear tone of voice so people can understand her.
The skills that are necessary are that they need to be clear in their speech as well as be able to deliver the news with a professional sounding voice (not dull or monotone). Also they have to make sure that they don’t move around a lot of fidget.

News ordering describes the act of what news stories go when in the finished video

The story that is shown first is usually the one that has the most impact and the one that the audience would want to see the most.