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Prof. Dr. Orhan HacıhasanoğluProf. Dr. Işıl Hacıhasanoğlu

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Documentary (adjective)

1. of, related to, or based on documents

2. that serves to document something

3. (of a film, book etc) presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter

documentary (noun)

1. a film, TV program, book etc that presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner

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The French used the term documentary to refer to any non-fiction film medium.

The earliest "moving pictures" were, by definition, documentary. They were single shots, moments captured on film; whether of a train entering a station, a boat docking, or a factory of people getting off work.

Early film (pre-1900) was dominated by the novelty of showing an event. These short films were called actuality films.

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Very little storytelling took place before the turn of the century, due mostly to technological limitations: cameras could hold only very small amounts of film; many of the first films are a minute or less in length.

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With Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North in 1922, documentary film embraced romanticism.

Some of Flaherty's staging, such as building a roofless igloo for interior shots, was done to accommodate the filming technology of the time.

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The newsreel tradition is an important tradition in documentary film; newsreels were also sometimes staged but were usually reenactments (replaying) of events that had already happened, not attempts to steer events as they were in the process of happening.

Dziga Vertov was involved with the Russian Kino-Pravda newsreel series ("Kino-Pravda" means literally, "film-truth," a term that was later translated literally into the French cinéma vérité).

Frank Capra's Why We Fight series was a newsreel series in the United States, commissioned by the government to convince the U.S. public that it was time to go to war.

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The continental, or realist, tradition focused on man within man-made environments, and included the so-called "city symphony" films such as Berlin, Symphony of a City, Rien que les Heures, and Man with the Movie Camera.

These films tended to feature people as products of their environment.

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Propagandist tradition

The propagandist tradition consisted of films made with the explicit purpose of persuading an audience of a point. One of the most known propaganda films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will.

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In his essays, Vertov argued for presenting "life as it is" (that is, life filmed surreptitiously) and "life caught unawares" (life provoked or surprised by the camera).

Cinema verite borrows from both Italian neorealism's character of shooting non-actors on location, and the French New Wave's use of largely unscripted action and improvised dialogue; the filmmakers took advantage of advances in technology allowing smaller, hand cameras and synchronized sound to film events on location as real cases.

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The fundamental character of the cinema verite include following a person during a crisis with a moving camera (not a tripod) to capture more personal reactions.

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documenting the efforts of 180 coal-miners on strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1974.

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There are no sit-down interviews, and the shooting ratio (the amount of film shot to the finished product) is very high, often reaching 80:1.

From there, editors find and sculpt the work into a film.

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In the 1960s and 1970s documentary film was often conceived as a political weapon against neocolonialism and capitalism in general

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The nature of documentary films has changed in the past 20 years from the cinema verité tradition.

Landmark films such as The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris, which incorporated stylized re-enactments,

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The commercial success of the documentaries mentioned above may owe something to this narrative shift in the documentary form, leading some critics to question whether such films can truly be called documentaries; critics usually refer to these works as "mondo films“ (a pseudo-documentary, usually depicting sensational topics and scenes).

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Visual inspection is the keyword for documentary films.

Documentray is a form is not a content.

Documentary is a form of the reality (content).

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The missions of documentary films:

1. Showing the public problems

2. Introducing the groups of the community each other, or introducing the community to other communities

3. Proposing new and more affective solutions to problems by using a large variety of inputs

4. Searching for the weaknesses

5. Introducing the events

6. Dramatizing the experiments

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Characteristics of the documentay:

• Director dramatizes the event and show with a creative presentation

• Time is generally 30 minutes

• Shooted in the real environment

• There isn’t any stage, costume

• Mostly shooted while an event, problem are realizing

• The aim is solving a specific problem

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• Music is the main part of the whole movie and composed for the specific movie.

• Voices generally are recorded in the site not in the studio.

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Types of documentaries

• News documentaries: Objective presentaions of everyday news.

• Travel documentaries: Presentation of the travels to well known or not known places.

• Social documentaries: The problems on the life and future of the community or gorups presented in this type of documentraies.

• Research documentary: Presentation of the researching subject in a very pure way.

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Types of documentaries

5. Scientific documentaries: Generally presenting the findings and results of a scientific research by using examples to make understandable.

6. History documentaries: The aim of history documentary is presenting the historical event as real as possible to make knowledge about the past.

7. Propogandist documentories: The propagandist films made to the explicit purpose of persuading an audience of a point.

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Types of documentaries

8. Edited documentaries: An edited documentary film presented the past events with composition made out of the other documents and especially old movies

9. Biographical documentaries: Presenting a special individual.

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UNTIL ETERNITY... (1988)

Directed by: SUHA ARIN

30 minutes 6 parts

Realized in Architect Sinan year (1988), to dedicate to big master.

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QUIZ- 04.04.2006

Question;

1. Which type of documentary film is Until Eternity?