Sentence examples for documentary conventions from inspiring English sources
Alternately entertaining and exasperating, "The Ambassador" plays with the limits of documentary conventions.
This sort of project combined traditional documentary conventions with postmodern concepts about typologies.
Employing elements of self-representation, participation and collaboration, Ms. Ewald departs from standard documentary conventions in which the artist is at arm's length from the subject.
"Tchoupitoulas," by Bill Ross and Turner Ross, is more recognizably grounded in documentary conventions, but it shares a spirit of youthful adventure (as well as several producers and crew members) with Mr. Zeitlin's film.
It turns out that the literary genre least likely to get in the way of this story is poetry, which, despite its reputation for gilt and taffeta, comfortably veers close to "documentary" conventions.
These are questions one could ask when viewing any number of "nonfiction" films made with longitudinal strategies, but, nevertheless, the elegant mix of documentary conventions deployed throughout "Strong Island" distills the weight of grief this black family bares with aplomb.
When it was released, Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line went radically against the grain of documentary convention.
It will be a platform for very short work — snippets of street life, brief observations and interviews, clips from experimental and artistic nonfiction videos — that follow less traditional documentary narrative conventions.
What many of the clips in "Cameraperson" show is the opposite — the documentary-industrial conventions that reduce the complex and personal experiences that go into documentary films into impersonal, processed audiovisual fodder.
In 1996, Mr. McDonough produced four hourlong documentaries, "When Conventions Were Conventions, With Robert Trout," for Public Radio International.
During that visit Mr. Lee, one of the movie's six executive producers, invited Mr. Spurlock to make a documentary about the convention.
