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An Introduction to Documentary »
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Documentary means different things to different people. A documentary aims to be concerned with truthful reporting. Documentaries have a reputation for being serious, reliable and objective in their reporting, with a commitment to truthfulness. There are documentary programmes with elements of comedy, or drama, and the modern documentary uses elements from entertainment programming to attract an audience and be entertaining.
The British...
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Century Films
Century Films create innovative, hard-hitting documentaries and dramas for all the major UK broadcasters, with sales to many international channels. Their work is distinctive, challenging and inventive - and above all, compelling.
They are renowned for producing award-winning work that gives a fresh angle on difficult subjects.
By applying an innovative approach to our films, they push the boundaries of documentary and drama...
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In Andre Bazin’s “Ontology of the Photographic Image” from What is Cinema? He announces his belief in Cinema as True Realism:
“The quarrel over realism in art stems from a misunderstanding, from a confusion between the aesthetic and psychological; between true realism, the need that is given significant expression to the world both concretely and its essence, and the pseudorealism of a deception aimed a fooling the eye (or the mind for that...
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