Even the current protests taking place at COP26 will be the stuff of documentaries in 2022.
The same can be said of other major events of modern history – the Manchester terror attack, the Hong Kong protests, the death of George Floyd, and so on. This UGV not only provided news organisations with real-time access to the action as it unfolded, but as we approach the first anniversary of this milestone event in democratic history, UGV is now also helping documentary and factual producers reconstruct the event through multiple viewpoints, and perhaps even provides an opportunity to shine a light on under-reported aspects of the story or bring to audiences previously unreported first-hand accounts.
The confusion results from a misinterpretation of the Dutch word ‘wijde’ (meaning wide, not white), used to describe the rhino’s mouth. White rhinos are not actually white, but grey. User-generated video (UGV) of how the mob overran police to gain entry to the building provided dramatic on-the-scene footage as the event unfolded. The white rhino is the third largest African animal (after the elephant and hippo) and weighs between 1,700 and 2,400 kg. Take for example the January 2021 Capitol riots in Washington. Everyone is a participant in a global shared anthropology, capturing moments in time and posting them for all to see.
He believed that giving the subjects of his documentaries a voice in the production would enhance, or more fully reflect, that which he was endeavouring to represent on screen.įilmmaking and TV production techniques may be significantly different today compared to back in the 50s, but with almost everybody armed with a smartphone, nowadays nothing goes undocumented. From the blog Monumental Moments in History: Six Reasons Documentary and Factual Producers Need to Stop Using Stock FootageĪudience participation in documentary and factual show making may have a longer heritage than you think…īack in the 1950s, French filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch advocated what he coined “a shared anthropology”.