FILE ON VIDEO ESSAYEntity
Video Essay
The attribution test, tense test, and 'what was actually going on' test can determine if prose is documentary register.1. Video essay is overwhelmingly first-person singular and present.2.
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The attribution test, tense test, and 'what was actually going on' test can determine if prose is documentary register.
The Documentary Voice: A Specification for Investigative/For
“Three diagnostics:”
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source
Video essay is overwhelmingly first-person singular and present.
The Documentary Voice: A Specification for Investigative/For
“Video essay, by contrast, is overwhelmingly first-person singular and present”
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source
Video essay is overwhelmingly present-tense
The Documentary Voice: A Specification for Investigative/For
“So this is what I think is going on…”
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source
Disputed — who says what, against what see standalone →
These are things people say about Video Essay that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
Disputed
"Authority comes from reasoning quality in video essays."
Unattributed assertion · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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