Abstract
Abstract Chapter 6 details how documentaries manipulate the experience of time for the audience. Most documentaries speak in the present tense with narration and title cards, engaging in a subtle but important manipulation that encourages the audience to feel as though the action is happening right in front of them rather than in the past. When cuts are made, footage is often strung together out of sequence in order to reinforce this illusion; for instance, verité shots are manipulated to make it seem as though the film was shot with multiple cameras when in fact usually only one camera is employed. When a documentary wishes to provide a fast-moving experience, it may play things in a mode called accelerated verité. When interleaving is used, scenes are intermingled so that multiple strands of time are proceeding simultaneously.
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