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Radio
News, Reporting and Production
MCM515
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LESSON
38
RADIO
DOCUMENTARY
Documentary
Documentary
is a radio or television format that
gives facts & evidences
about something artistically.
Documentary
is a combination of two words
which are: Document and
Commentary.
Document
Word
document is derived from Latin word
Docere
that
means Proof,
Evidence, an attested piece
of
paper
with words.
So
Document
is an
official paper or book that
gives information about something
and can be used as an
evidence
or proof of something.
Commentary
Commentary
is a spoken description of
something.
Documentary
Documentary
is a presentation of evidences of a person,
place, or thing which can
hardly be denied.
Purpose
of documentary
The
purpose of documentary is to provide
people with the information about a
person, thing,
phenomenon,
event, etc., with the help
of facts, figures and
evidences. A documentary attempts to
offer
authentication
of what is otherwise speculation through
the recordings of the informants,
witnesses,
participants,
etc.
History
the
word document
became
more active as verb that
means the
act of furnishing
In
1711 AD
evidence
such
as court records, school
reports, letters, journals, newspapers,
diaries, etc with
words.
word
documentary
report emerged
as a description of evidence coupled with
imagination.
In
1802 AD
the
present day use of the word
documentary
emerged.
In
1935 AD
Topics
of documentary
There
is an unlimited range of topics
that can be treated as
documentaries. Some of them are as
under:
Topics
about tangibles
Topics
about intangibles
Topics
about Tangibles
Topics
about tangibles can further
be categorized as under:
Persons
o
Things
o
Persons
The
life of a personality that may
come from national heroes,
leaders, scientists, scholars,
players, actors,
singers,
etc. can be depicted through
a documentary.
Things
Documentary
can be planned and produced on anything
such as bazaars, streets,
life in dark slums, life
in
big
cities, countries, culture, traditions, fashion,
books, the life and culture of animals,
etc.
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Topics
about Intangibles
The
topics about intangible things
can further be distributed
amongst the following
categories:
Phenomena
Abstract
topics
Social
topics
Phenomena
Documentarily
can be produced on different phenomena
such as:
The
blooming of a bud
The
functioning of heart
The
making of a missile
Discoveries,
inventions
Historical
facts, wars, riots
The
galaxies
Abstract
topics
Some
of the abstract topics are:
anger, insomnia, fears and
phobias, habits, attitudes, children's
psychology
etc.
Social
topics
Pollution
Population
Child
labour
Women's
issues
Price
hike
Smoking
Narcotics
Illiteracy
Essentials
of Radio Documentary
The
following are the essentials of
radio documentary.
Script
Narrator
Sound
effects
Interviews
of concerned persons to authenticate the
information
The
more the interviews, the more
authenticated the documentary will
be.
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