Investigating Documentary Form

Director Cinema vs Cinema Verite

Direct cinema is more truthful and captures evbents in their natural unprepared form (normal day to day). Direct cinema tries to show real life and a certain subject truthfully.

Cinema Verite is biased as the filmmaker/ interview mostly asked questions that are subjective and the audience are more aware and paying attention of the filming going on.

 Titicut Follies Banned for 20 years, filmmaker Frederick Wiseman exposes conditions at a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane. https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/cinema-verite-vs-direct-cinema-an-introduction/ Fredrick Wiseman Q and A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Vd-1qe0Dg The Thin Blue Line (1988)

A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas. The purpose of the film appears to be to show the audience the imperfections of the justice system and how the death penalty can cause innocent people to be killed.