INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARIES

INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY An interactive documentary is a documentary production that is different compared to the more traditional forms of video, audio, photographic—by using different multimedia tools in the film.

Interactive documentaries provides a unique medium to create non-linear productions that combine photography, text, audio, video, animation, info graphics and other media forms. Making them stand out against the traditional type of documentaries produced.

INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY

Many documentaries feature ‘interactive mode’. Scenes involve those who are being filmed responding to questions they are asked form an internal producer or members of the public. In these interviews questions asked by the film maker may be left in/edited out. The use of the answers from the interviewees could be so that they can tell their side of a story or give their opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBJZ8iy407o This mode can also belittle the interviewees, which it could be

designed to make them look foolish, childish or stupid. Also this mode makes aware of the presence from the camera crew.

The opinion of the interviewee could be seen as trustworthy/untrustworthy depending on the context that it is applying to, also if the surrounding shots/nature of the statements being made in their own right.

INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY Interactive Documentaries are commonly an investigation/research type

of documentary.

Interactive Documentaries reflect the way in which the world we live in is presented.

The audience is talked to directly, through direct address, in this type of documentary. Talking directly to the camera makes the audience feel more involved and subsequently, more engaged.

Interviews tend to be informal, using long takes throughout.

Location shooting includes hand-held camera filming, but could also move on to a whole crew using techniques such as a track to film.

There is usually a voiceover during the documentary that gives extra and additional information about the content that the viewers are watching.

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