The Authored Documentary Flashcards
With documentary’s resurgence has come a development in documentary form, giving rise to the authored documentary, whose parentage lies in the interactive mode and the contemporary focus on _________ documentary.
Personal.
In the authored documentary the documentary-maker is the ‘____’ of the documentary, leading the audience on an often idiosyncratic journey through a story of personal interest to them.
Star.
A subgenre of this form will often involve the documentary-maker undergoing elements of whatever it is they are investigating (such as Louis _______ auditioning for a job on a Norwegian cruise ship in Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Off-off Broadway (transmitted BBC 2, 9 June 1999), or Lisa Rodgers undergoing a consultation for plastic surgery in The Perfect Vagina (Channel Four, 17 August 2008).
Theroux.
This is a form that has proved popular with audiences, partly due to the reaction of the ‘author’ to what they are ‘discovering’ as the camera rolls, offering an implicit heightened sense of ‘the _____’, and a suggestion that there is lack of restriction editorially, key exponents of this form are Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock.
Real.
Both Moore’s and Spurlock’s successes have helped draw attention to an additional area of documentary exhibition, the _________, where there are countless sites now offering downloadable documentaries.
Internet.
Made using the technical advances offered by modern consumer or pro-sumer products, these documentaries are able to reach audiences that they would never have been able to reach through traditional distribution/exhibition methods, and spectators are opening themselves up to ______ markets rather than being limited to what is showing at the local cinema or broadcast television.
Global.
Michael Moore’s _______ Uprising (Dog Eat Dog Films, US, 2008) is one of the first major documentary features to be released as a completely and legally free online download.
Slacker.
Moore made it available for three weeks from 23 September _______, and it broke all download records in its first twenty-four hours.
2008.
This follows on from the significant online success in distributing documentaries such as Loose Change (Louder Than Words, US, 2005, 2nd edn, 2006, Final Cut, 2007) that achieved over _____-million viewings with the website getting over 100,000 hits a day.
Forty.
In the authored documentary the documentary-maker is the ‘star’ of the documentary, leading the audience on an often idiosyncratic ________ through a story of personal interest to them.
Journey.
