2. Source
Based
on the concepts used for film
documentaries
Bill Nichols books
◦ Introduction to Documentary (2001)
◦ Representing Reality (1991)
http://alexburtonjournal.blogspot.com/20
07/11/documentary-form.html
4. When You Listen …
reality
is edited, sometimes re-sequenced
and artificially framed
identify podcaster’s purpose to decode
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possibly a moral or political perspective?
maybe just an event recorded?
share information, demonstrate authority?
sales pitch?
types – Bill Nichols
8. Observational Documentaries
Record
lived life with minimum
intervention
immediacy, intimacy
revelation of individual human character
in ordinary life situations
little or no music, sound effects, or
technical alterations
9. Participatory Documentaries
emulate
approach of anthropologists
participant-observation
recorder part of the recording
get a sense of how situations affected or
altered by recorder’s presence.
“truth of the encounter”