Cinema Verite Vs Direct Cinema

Cinéma vérité is a style of filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques that originated in documentary filmmaking, with the storytelling elements typical of a scripted film. It is also known for taking a provocative stance toward its topics. The name is French and means, roughly, "cinema of truth".

Cinéma vérité aims for an extreme naturalism, using non-professional actors, nonintrusive filming techniques, hand-held camera, genuine locations rather than sound stages, and naturalistic sound without substantial post-production mixing or voiceovers.Cinema Verité uses the power of the camera to provoke and reveal. Direct Cinema, on the other hand, is more strictly observational. It relies on an agreement among the filmmaker, subjects, and audience to act as if the presence of the camera does not (substantially) alter the recorded event. In Direct Cinema, the filmmaker aims to be a fly-on-the-wall capturing life as it unfolds, although such claims of non-intervention have been severely criticized.

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