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Charlee Fordyce and Alex Dunk

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Enclosed is the Presentation shown in the seminar on Friday 27th November

Notes:

Presentation notes.

· Any use of narrative or dramatisation is somehow equal to fictionalising. · Bill Nichols (1994) would describe the relationship between fiction and nonfiction as a ‘blurred boudry’. · Re-enactment- not out of bounds for the document artist. · Derek Paget-Dramatised documentary/drama documentary/dramatic reconstruction · Dramatic forms-reconstruction/re-enactments · Due to: no direct record of events (no cameras) / Problems to access to documentation · Catherine Bennett (2000) claimed that reconstruction are ‘inferior to the truth.’ Or ‘inferior’. · ‘Representing apparently real world events but do so by using dramatised forms of reconstruction and performance,’ · Not a documentary if people are ‘acting’-not playing themselves. · ‘Some documentaries ‘document’ a real, social reality in an utterly compelling way, and reveal things about their response social contexts and characters that a ‘conventional’ documentary would arguably never be able to. · The difficulty if that if these films are rejected out of hand as unable to usefully ‘document’ an aspect of reality then certain aspects of reality will never adequately be represented. · Sometimes actors take the place of real people for sensitivity issues-instead of using ‘silhouette techniques’. · Taking as documentary something that is performed by actors-based on real experiences of real people. · Risk of reconstruction-if the use of reconstruction becomes too obvious then the doc loses some of its effectiveness. · Jeffry Kuehl-‘Drama doc are completely unable to make any kind of truth claims’ · Steven Lipkins-‘Ask questions about truthfulness and the viewers interpretation of what they see.’ · Lipkin-‘warranting’- strategies by which docudramas forms draw together data into an argumentative framework making assertions about ‘what really happened’. · Film makers assert moral positions that ultimately became claims made by the films narrative and warrant these claims through formal strategies that bring together re-creation and actuality. · Effectiveness- Political spin?