Representing Facts:

Mediation – Camera person getting between the viewer and the subject.

Distortion – twisting/changing footage to change/ alter the message/ reality.

Hyperreality – an artificially created copy that is perceived as somehow more real than the real thing, or too real to be real: modelled on reality but with an exaggerated intensity.

Verisimilitude –  verisimilitude means basically “similarity to the truth“. Most fiction writers and filmmakers aim at some kind of verisimilitude to give their stories an air of reality. 

Bias – challenges us to confront our hidden biases and understand what we risk when we follow our gut. Producer having an agender, how that alters the spectators perception.

Objectivity – a documentary of people who agree in some measurements about the terms and conditions that underscore this distanced presence, although different communities will assign different meanings and definition.

Selection/ Electing –

In David Attenborough’s ‘Blue Planet’ the producer/ narrator holds an environmental bias; being that of the detrimental effects of global warming and pollution. This is then emphasized to create sympathy through the use of narrated mediation, encouraging the spectator to have a more immersive and directed relationship with the subjects of the documentary.