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Documentary

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employed_by Documentary narrator
other YouTube Canada
member_of Defunctland
member_of Herzog
other Video Essay
other Authority comes from sourcing, attribution, evidence in documentaries.
other Documentary-Video-Essay
other Video Essay
other Defunctland
other True crime serial documentaries
other Frontline
other Bellingcat
Established facts
  • There are three valid close-forms for a documentary. ↗ · source
  • The attribution test, tense test, and 'what was actually going on' test can determine if prose is documentary register. ↗ · source
  • A documentary uses interviews two ways. ↗ · source
  • The system should encode this distinction: interview-as-evidence material should be deployed during the body/anatomy section to advance the case; interview-as-commentary material is appropriate during the frame, the competing-accounts section, and the synthesis. ↗ · source
  • The system should support two positions and let the operator pick: ↗ · source
  • In voice, attribution have to be sentence-shaped. ↗ · source
  • The documentary register has a small set of recurring attribution moves. ↗ · source
  • A documentary close typically does one of three things: (a) names what the investigation has changed about how we should see the topic, (b) names what is still unresolved and why that matters, or (c) reveals the larger meaning the narrow question turned out to be about. ↗ · source
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