Fiction and Non-Fiction : The Great Divide

Two point from this reading that interested me:

1. Re-enaching the real: the Performing of real-life scenarios

It is difficult to find the line between fictional and non fictional moments when re-creation is involved. The difference between ‘based on a true story’ and re-enactments of moments that happened in the past is extremely hard to define. There are many different classifications of these moments, such as documentary, drama-documentary and documentary-drama. Where the classification between fictional and non-fictional is drawn in relations to these situations, I am still not entirely sure!

2. Rights and Wrongs

I have always know that you must have the rights to fictional story in order to crate a film about it, however I have never considered an event or occurs that actually happened ‘belonging’ to someone and that person or com pay having power to make money off and do whatever they wish to with it.

Fiction and nonfiction : the great divide? In Ward, Paul. Documentary : the margins of reality, (p. 31-48). London : Wallflower, 2005.