Below shows a powerpoint presentation I created on SlideRocket showing the history of film since the 1890s. This shows the progression of both ideas and digital technologies since the 1890s to present day films.
Docudrama Feature Films
"Docudrama is a hybrid of documentary and drama genres which brings real events to life on the film or television screen."
Features of docudrama:
Within the social sciences, social forces produce significant change, which is represented in graphs and population trends. Causes and effects are shown in these types of formats. In relation to docudrama feature films, these forces are shown through the codes and conventions of the visual language. Cause and effect, accuracy and truth are each expressed in the docudrama through the elements of character, plot, setting and exposition.
Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics:
- Focus on the facts of the event, as they are known;
- Use of literary and narrative techniques to flesh out the bare facts of an event in history to tell a story;
- Some degree of license may be taken with minor historical facts for the sake of enhancing the drama.
Examples of contemporary docudramas include:
The King's Speech (2010)
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