Bill Nichols
*An American film critic and theoretician.
*Most known for being the founder of the contemporary study of documentary film.
*He wrote a book published in 1991 called 'Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary'. This book applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film.
*In Nichols schema he identifies 6 documentary 'modes'; poetic, expository, performative, participatory, observational and reflexive.
*He offered a conceptual framework for the production and study of documentary film.
John Grierson
*A school headmaster who studied Philosophy at University.
*He began filmmaking due to a post-graduate study in the US.
*Grierson created a documentary called 'Creative Treatment of Actuality'.
*He had a great influence on factual filmmaking, he established the National Film Board of Canada. He was also UNESCO's first Director of mass communications and public information.
*Finally, throughout his career he he produced over 1000 film and TV programmes.
7. An extract from an original documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with the following two options; a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary, and a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.
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