July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
16h 43m
English
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CHAPTER 25
As discussed in Chapters 7, realism is the basis of the documentary. When a documentary is edited, the footage of an event is made to conform to an interpretation of the event that, within the parameters of sponsorship, is truthful. The greatest expression of this characteristic of the documentary is found in cinéma vérité works.
What if the filmmaker’s goal is to reveal an insight or an interpretation that wouldn’t be available from a straightforward editing of the footage? What if the filmmaker wishes to deconstruct a wrestling match so it can be viewed as a struggle of good against evil? This isn’t quite the interpretation we would derive from straight documentary footage of a wrestling match, but with ...