Naook Of The North Documentary Analysis

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With documentaries, there are usually 100% true to the audience. But if you think about it, it’s not really true. If you think about any other genre that is in the film industry, why would you accept them to be genuine? There is always a dilemma when it comes down to documentaries to be considered not truthful or not due to parts from documentaries to be actual documentaries. This is why now a day that Nanook of the North has a lot of criticism that can be harsh. Sometimes we believe that films that are considered documentaries are staged, which doesn’t mean anything. Even if it could possibly be staged, it doesn’t mean that the film crew members aren’t telling the truth behind the documentary. They can even do a film about a real event that …show more content…
Since its in first person view, it gives the audience a sense of being in the story itself and the sense of reality. The way that the camera is, it makes you feel that you’re that person in the film and feel how they feel every time they turn the camera like in the Blair Witch Project. The way that the camera moves and how the environment is, it makes the audience feel more scared like they are actually in that forest. You usually see this camera views in action but mostly in the horror films because the audience are more attracted to those. If you think about it, horror films tend to make it more believable and then not really relatable when it comes to their stories. Like we live in reality, and we hope nothing from horror films like The Purge. We hope that nothing from that movie comes out into this world because it be very dangerous and who knows what would even happen. Now lastly with the documentaries, they can make it more relatable and make more believable when it comes down to the audience. Even if the story isn’t even true, usually documentaries can bend it and make it believable for the audience to attend the

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