Documentary Analysis

Running head: DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS
DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS
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Abstract
Documentaries are synonymous with non-fiction form of story telling in film studies. The
fact that it is widely reckoned as the only form of visual story telling which does not take any
external intervention to manipulate the raw truth of the story which is being portrayed by the
director, makes it difficult for him to make the story appealing and interesting to the eyes of
the audience. This report takes into account two iconic documentaries and analyzes them on
the basis of how much each of the documentaries are able to align with the notion of
delivering unmediated truth in story telling. The report summarizes that Nanook of The North
incorporates some elements of fictionakl story telling, such as incorporating staged customs
and reported instructions to Nanook about the expressions which he is required to provide in
specific scenes of the film. This, according to film experts, blurs the lines between fiction and
non fiction, but some believe that the film could be spared of that criticism, since it had been
produced at a time when notions and conventions of documentary film making had not
conceptualized in the industry, with the film itself being officially the first of its kind.

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