(will probably change alot!!)
Documentaries today are getting bigger releases and bigger audiences than in the past. Now why would that be? It could be argued that today's documentaries are ‘better’, more dramatic films than those of the past. Filmmakers are bringing narrative techniques to truth-telling.
My research hopes to answer the following questions.
1.Are the boundaries that mark out the factual genre becoming increasingly blurred as film and program makers come under ever-greater commercial pressure?
2.What do the new developments in the documentary genre mean for the future of documentary?
3. With the narrative shift in the documentary form can such films truly be called documentaries? Or are they just "docu-ganda”?
4. How, in today's media environment, can documentary preserve some of its fundamental ambitions to give us insights into contemporary and historical realities?
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That sounds really interesting. I often wonder if people aren't more media savvy now and looking for a platform that is mogul and politically less controlled. There was a Cultural Studies lecturer when I did CUL302 Genre Writing (Jennifer Rutherford) whose 2002 Caroline Chisolm Lecture at La Trobe University outlined her experiences in documentary making (about Pauline Hanson). What I found really interesting was that once her material was delivered into the hands of the ABC she basically lost control of the story and how it was told. I don't know if that will be helpful to your direction, but it does address documentary production. It might have some relevance to your first, third and fourth points - and if not, you might simply find it interesting.
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