The role of the filmmaker is important in analysing the various choices that are made to demarcate an interactive documentary from the linear documentary form. In this emergent medium, the filmmaker “chooses” to “interact” with reality and “mediate” it through “shooting, editing and showing” (Gaudenzi, 2013, p.13)
What is interesting about the documentary form is not so much its attempt to portray a reality of interest to the filmmaker.
Instead, we look at the way the filmmaker chooses to interact with reality; how they mediate it through shooting, editing and eventual broadcasting, is indicative of new ways of thinking about reality, and therefore of forging it.
References:
Gaudenzi, S 2013, The Living Documentary: From representing reality to co-creating reality in digital interactive documentary, doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies, London, viewed 7 August 2016, retrieved from:
http://research.gold.ac.uk/7997/1/Cultural_thesis_Gaudenzi.pdf