Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos

"Author Barry Hampe traces the two main approaches to documentary - recording behaviour and recreating past events" It is evident from this line that documentary, in its own right, is a medium that reserves its share of methodology, which in the purest forms, of course, means that mediation and agenda-specific commentary will play a role in their creation. Given the fact that 'recreating past events' is imperative to documentary creation, as seen in Catfish (insert shots of phone calls), it proves that documentaries must follow their own narrative, which in some way will blend with fictitious content. The blurb continues to list items that will be discussed, including; "why reality is not enough." Inline with the aforementioned, this allows us to infer that, in terms of entertainment value, realism is not the primary selling point for documentaries - in lieu, it is entertainment through glorified and dramatised events that were real some time ago. (A reviewer even comments; "I found the book informative, insightful and useful - the same qualities lacking in many documentaries today.")