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Is there a name for this style of documentary?
I have been doing documentary type projects for years. Several years ago I started to eliminate the old voice over and basically wrapped the story around interviews only. This seems to be a trend that is continuing and I love it for the most part.
I teach production as a college and for the life of me never hear of what you would call that kind of style…I saw only one reference to it and its called Bridging. Am I missing something..
If you know what this style is technically called I would love to know so I can use the correct term in my classes.
Thanks.
David
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First-person narrative?
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In Film School we studied the six types of documentary modes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_mode
It sounds like this one would be the ‘Observative Mode’ type.
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I call it letting them tell the story and writing nothing.
Voice overs are to tell the story due to missing links. It’s not a style. Voice overs are saying “we didn’t have enough in the can to tell you the story so we hired this chain-smoking’ dude.”
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