Representation through Documentary: A Post-Modern Assessment (Online)

"The audience is drawn into an everyday reality that seemingly does not need questioning." This point is massively significant - it is, potentially, the main reason as to why we are less likely to question a documentary than we are the fictive reality of cinematic film. Mediation and representation, therefore, pass under the radar in this particular example. 

"If the representation is different from its object, how can it stand for it truly? (T. Bennett, L. Grossberg, and M. Morris. eds. ‘Everyday’, New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 307)"

"There is an art to documentary that obliges the filmmaker to choose camera angles, to string words together into sentences that are not just informative but that tell a story." - Documentary is not just black and white reality, it is a portrayal of a reality, but conducted in such a way that fiction, or fictional elements (such as voice of God V.O and camera angle choice, which is never accidental) plays a significant role. 

Edgar Morin wrote: "There are two ways to conceive of the cinema of the Real: the first is to pretend that you can present reality to be seen; the second is to pose the problem of reality. In the same way, there were two ways to conceive cinéma vérité. The first was to pretend that you brought truth. The second was to pose the problem of truth."