A documentary on how to make a documentary?
Unesco has come out with a documentary to teach how documentaries should be produced.
The 30-minute film called “Documenting Reality”, is available online and is second part of the Unesco Video Training Basics series. The UN agency brought the series in partnership with the New Delhi-based Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), a non-governmental organisation.
What is the ‘reality’ we see on our screens? Who created it and why? This 30-minute documentary raises these questions and focuses on how ‘reality’ is created by the camera, while exploring the “constructedness” of reality itself.
Unesco announced that the film delves into why and how certain ‘truths’ are legitimised. It aims to provide a tool for critical thinking and analysis of contemporary mediated societies.
Said Unesco: “Through this series of training modules, Unesco and PSBT aim to support the communication process in democratic societies, particularly in developing media environments.”
They are doing this by providing basic and easily comprehensible self-training materials that can be inexpensively distributed to potential content creators as well as to audiences.
Unesco argues that though the media is the strongest tool of modern societies for cultural expression and transmission, the audio-visual industry is increasingly dominated by powerful, commercially oriented conglomerates that account for the majority of productions seen by audiences worldwide.
— IANS
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