• components are gathered, sorted and assembled according to a type of logic of categorical process
• “the temporal ordering of elements is less important than the comparisons and associations the user is invited to make between the documentary’s elements”- Kate Nash
• mosaic struction (Nichols)- “a form where the whole thus tends toward poetry an al-at-once slice throguh an institutional matrix re-presented in time rather than narrative
• spaces between and around list elements give room for the audience to argue what is given
• the audience interprets their own meanings with exploratory intention
• lists can inspire thought that follows the structure of memory, impulse and flashes of association ( a mnemonic device)
• we have come to understand montage as a complex system of linking discrete objects
• montages simultaneously collect, create and understand
• documentaries can be regarded (Ross Gibson) as a process that grants you access to a clearer sense of the governing codes of an emerging actuality
• Phillip Rosen- the key role of the documentarian is to transform raw artefacts of the world into meaningful constructions
• organisation of complexity
• allows for critical engagement and experiential knowing

• web-based documentaries
• it allows a push for certain traditional media producers to explore alternative platforms and audiences
• establishment of faster technological (computer) networks for distributing higher quality video content
• easy-to-use and wide availability
• rapid expansion of “read-write” culture
• advancement of technology creates future scares for the shelf-life of such technologies

“”Story is an event or sequence of events, and narrative discourse is those events as represented”. Narrative, in this view, is the textual actualisation of story, while story is narrative in a virtual form.”

This highlighted section of the reading got me thinking- anything can be a story, but the representation of said story is what becomes a narrative. There are so many possibilities for potential narratives which forever simply remain story ideas. It’s sad there aren’t that many successful writers out there. Like, there are, but there are plenty more stories out there in the minds of people who would never think to just start the “textual actualisation of story”.