Some are like tabloid newspapers meaning that they are created to cause emotion, or are in some way sensationalised. Others give both sides to a story - this is in order to allow the audience to make their own mind up on the conclusion rather than making one for them.
British documentaries are renowned for their investagitive ways, which is not something that is always popular with other countries due to this being something that often goes against what the Goverment may approve, therefore making it controversial.
It is essential that documentaries create some form of drama - this could be the music that is chosen to go along side it, or the footage that is used. This then asks the question 'How creative should a documentary be?'. This is an argument throughout the documentary making world due to the more creative it is made, the less it seems realistic, and the further it is taken away from reality.
Many film makers argue that everything is faked because it is impossible to capture every authentic event, and any attempt to record reality is bound to suffer by the presence of a film crew. And like most events, there is always more than one side to a story, for example, catching a crash on tape may look different from the perspective of behind the car, to being in front of the car which is also different to the perspective within the car, which is different to the above perspective - all of which cannot be record at the same time, therefore the factual events of a crash does not neccissarily mean that it provides the truth due to the angle.
"Everybody who makes a film is putting their own truth on the screen." - Diane Tannes.
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