How have they constructed our conceptualisation of reality (or at least what we recognise as being real at the visual level)?
This kind of reality TV has variety of styles and techniques associated to construct our conceptualisation of reality, such as non-professional actors, unscripted dialogue, surveillance footage, hand-held cameras, seeing events unfold as they are happening in front of the camera.
How has the documentary genre influenced reality TV and how it presents the ‘real’?
The documentary genre, which under the categories of new factual television structure, has its own director and creative head of programming. The department of Popular Factual Television commissions formats, celebrity profiles and entertaining documentaries. The department of Leisure, also subsumed under Documentaries and contemporary Factual, commissions lifestyle, history, relationships and popular documentaries. This documentary genre also includes a features department that commissions popular crime, and consumer affairs programmes. Even current affairs and investigations commissions popular formatted series, and also docu-dramas.
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