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PURPOSE OF A

DOCUMENTARY
By Leah Gayle
Raise
To educate awareness To observe

To be factual Give information

What is the
Be subjective purpose of a Entertainment
documentary?

Be objective/To Persuade
make an argument
Investigate
issues To re-tell or
tell a story
Raise awareness Give information

This is when Documentaries tend to


documentaries try to inform people about
make people aware of things.
certain situations. So it could be informing
Whether its about global you about how polar
warming or about crime in bears have to survive or
the UK. about murderers in the
USA.
Entertainment To be factual

Some documentaries All documentaries should


want to also entertain the be factual because they
audience to make the are based around facts.
documentary more The facts that the
interesting and fun to audience are informed
watch for the audience. about are important to
Benefits Street is a know so the audience
docusoap and aims to know more about the
entertain the viewers. documentary.
Be objective / To make an
argument Be subjective

This is when the This is when the


documentary looks at documentary is biased
more than one side of an and only looks at one side
argument. of an argument.
They do this so the They do this to try and
audience can decide encode a message into
which side they are on. the audiences head.
Persuade Investigate issues

They might want to Certain documentaries


persuade the audience to want to investigate issues
think a certain way or to in the world to maybe
believe something that the spread the word.
editor wants you to
believe. This might generally be in
This could be a murder crime documentaries.
documentary that is trying
to persuade you to agree
with them about who the
murderer is.
To observe To educate

Documentaries may want They might want to try to


to observe people and educate the audience to
how they behave which further their knowledge of
may also be entertaining certain things.
for the audience. For example there may be
documentaries that
A documentary about a explore the history of the
social experiment would world, which could be
be observing people. used to educate historians
and students that are
studying history.
I like the idea of documentaries
being entertaining because I
find it more captivating and
enjoyable to watch. For
To re-tell or tell a story example, I find Benefits Street
entertaining because the
people that are on it are fun
Some documentaries like and interesting to watch.
to tell or re-tell a story Documentaries that investigate
because it may be issues also appeal to me
because I like solving issues
interesting to the and I find it interesting. For
audience. example, Casting Jon Bonet
investigates the death of Jon
For example it may be a Benet and looks at the
crime documentary talking possibilities of how she died
about how Madeline and who may have killed her.
I also like documentaries that
McCann went missing, or re-tell a story, as long as the
a history documentary story is intriguing and has an
about Hitler. element of surprise.

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