The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’
Horness Roe. A. (2013) Animated Documentary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
I see documentary as a record of a true story. It distinguishes itself from an idealistic existence. Documentaries record what happens with a camera, capturing the story of what happens in each moment. Film records the fictional stories that people write about. A documentary is a record of what is happening in the moment, or a story that really happened in a series of pictures.