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oral presentation documentaries Documentary is the creative interpretation of reality according to British film maker John Grierson. Reality in its natural form
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Documentary is the creative interpretation of reality according to British film maker John Grierson. Reality in its natural form is too complex to be re-created and therefore documentaries offer a particular version of reality. The creators own personal values, attitudes and judgments influence this reconstructed form of reality and use symbolic, written, technical and audio codes to help persuade it's audience to accept their version. This occurred in the documentary Born into Brothels' directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman.
Born into Brothels documents the lives of eight local children for a on and off period of two years. Zana Briski initially went to India to photograph the prostitutes but when meeting their children came to feel that the children might be saved or given hope by giving them cameras and teaching them to capture their surroundings. One of the children, Gour, spoke about photography, "I want to show in my pictures how people live in this city. I want to put across the behavior of man." The photograph's of the children's lives from their point of view were extremely successful, being sold by Ms. Briski to fund their education.
Throughout the documentary Born into Brothels' the viewer is able to understand the difficulties in making their own lives better than their ancestors, even with outside help. This event can be explained with reference to the saying "a leopard cannot change it's spots" however, within the documentary more than one generation is concerned and it is not impossible, just significantly harder.
The main relationship between the two statements can be described using specific examples from the documentary. The photos these children took were sold to the public with the aim of using the profits to pay for their education. For any poverty stricken family one of the main reasons that children are unable to attend school is because they don't have enough money to send them to...
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