example:
"A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record."
"The creative treatment of actuality"
"The use of film medium to interpret creatively and in social terms, the life of people as it exists in reality"
From a personal point of view, I think documentary is a TV or film genre which is used to show certain parts of reality. Documentaries often seem to show all of something, but I believe that they only show the parts that they want to show, in order to make the audience think a certain way and believe certain things.
There are also many types of documentary. Firstly there is campaigning, which is when a film-maker captures footage of things that might get an audience interested in a particular topic/campaign. For example, using a documentary style to show that a charity needs more help and more money. A documentary showing young children starving to death, and their parents struggling to get food for the family every day, would be a campaigning style.
There is also a type of documentary called mockumentary. This is when a serious documentary style filming is done, but with a less serious subject. For example; the film Borat. The style of filming and editing used for Borat, makes the audience feel as if it is a serious documentary, being made to show and inform you of the life of the character, when it's actually just a parody, and is a comedy rather than a real documentary.
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