Documente Academic
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Examples
Can We Make a Star on Earth?
Brian Cox from Manchester University discuses the possibility of making a star here on earth, a process known as nuclear fusion. Creating fusion on Earth was done a lot of times, in the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, however it is an uncontrolled process , therefore extremely destructive, controlled fusion is a different story all together. If successful, a controlled nuclear fusion would solve most of our energy problems as it provides massive quantities of energy from an extremely cheap and abundant fuel, hydrogen. Brian Cox is the new genius of the modern age and with this knowledge he has produced a lot of exploratory documentary particularly on Space and the Solar System. These documentaries teach the audience about what is out there and answers questions they may have about the subject in hand, this is exploratory documentary.
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The most well known exploratory documentary is Planet Earth commentated by David Attenborough. His works has been the greatest wildlife documentaries party due to his memorising voice and also due to the award winning footage that takes months and years to capture.
This documentary explores how marijuana effects the human body at middle age and fits into the interactive or participatory documentary because of how the comedian is the presenter and involved in the experiment.
REFLECTIVE DOCUMENTARY
Reflexive Mode: calls attention to the assumptions and conventions that govern documentary filmmaking. Increases our awareness of the constructedness of the film's representation of reality. 'the processes of negotiation between filmmaker and viewer become the focus of attention for the reflexive mode . . . we now attend to the filmmaker's engagement with us, speaking not only about the historical world but about the problems and issue of representing it as well.' 'The reflexive mode is the most self-conscious and self-questioning mode of representation . . . Reflexive documentary sets out to readjust the assumptions and expectations of the audience, not add new knowledge to existing categories . . . (it) relies on techniques that jar us, . . . "alienation effects" . . . or "making strange".
PERFORMATIVE DOCUMENTARY
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer is a documentary on the famous first American serial killer. Aileen Wuornos has been called America's first female serial killer, but that's not exactly accurate. She wasn't the first. However, she's among the few murderous females who seemed to act like a true predator, targeting strangers rather than someone closer to home, and using a gun to murder them. Wuornos has been the subject of countless books, articles, and movies even an opera and while awaiting her execution on death row, she claimed in August 2001 that she wanted it to be done and over with. She had killed people and deserved to die, she stated. "I have hate crawling through my system." She said that were she released, she would kill again, and that she had robbed and killed her victims in the first degree. However, that hasn't always been her story. On a documentary made for A&E's American Justice, footage of her indicates that her mood changes from one moment to the next, and while she might admit to killing her seven male victims, she claimed during her confession and trial that it was in self-defense. Yet the pattern and the background of some of the victims indicates otherwise. This documentary tells her story and gives all the facts about the death row sentence and Aileens confessions. This allows the viewer to make their own judgments about the killer although you can tell that the director of the documentary liked and pitted her.