Introduction to Media Writing, Maryville University

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Sunday, April 5, 2009

A documentary film is a video that attempts, in some way, to document reality. Even though the scenes are carefully chosen and arranged, they are not scripted, and the people in a documentary film are not actors. Sometimes, a documentary film may rely on voice-over narration to describe what is happening in the footage; in other films, the footage will speak for itself. Often, a documentary film will include interviews with the people in the film.


Michael Moore has made a name for himself by doing these types of films. Fahrenheit 911 is a solid example of this.















But many other documentaries have become very well-known recently, including Super Size Me and An Inconvenient Truth.

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