Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Documentary Genre

A documentary is documenting something that has happened

It provides the audience with an insight into a topic they may not know about

Does inform and can educate an audience about a topic

This must be done in an entertaining way, to sustain the interest of the audience, becayse nowadyas the audience has more choice because of Audience Fragmentation due to digital and satelite television.There are specific channels devoted to documentary Eg- Eden, this is an example of Narrowcasting

John Grierson came up with the term 'documentary' in 1926

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