What is the central idea governing the documentary study?

A documentary is a constructed text with a point of view

In the participatory mode, what happens?

The filmmaker appears and interacts with subjects

It foregrounds the film's own construction and methods

The maker's stated ideas about truth, ethics, purpose and method

Use it as a lens, reading specific moments of the film through it

How truthful a documentary can be

Weigh both sides and reach a reasoned judgement

It films real people, events, testimony and actuality

It selects, frames, edits, narrates and structures its material

Treating the documentary as the plain truth and summarising its subject

The use or absence of voice-over and the film's structure

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In which component is documentary film studied?
What is the central idea governing the documentary study?
Which documentary mode is driven by commentary or voice-over building a direct argument?
Which mode is best described as fly-on-the-wall, with minimal intervention?
In the participatory mode, what happens?
What characterises the reflexive mode?
Which mode foregrounds the filmmaker's subjective, personal experience?
What is a documentary filmmaker's theory?
How should you apply a filmmaker's theory in an answer?
What is the documentary critical debate about?
What does a critical-debate question require you to do?
Which is an argument that documentary can be truthful?
Which is an argument that documentary is constructed?
What is a common mistake when analysing a documentary in the exam?
Which formal feature is especially important to analyse in documentary?