This lecture made me leave feeling very confused. We were told to work out whether we thought that Spice Girls documentaries were actual real documetarys or more like reality tv. I had never really thought about this before, so i decided to just sit and listen to what other people thought.
Initially i thought that the documentaries we were shown of thr Spice Girls were documemtaries, they have all of conventions; interviews with the girls and their families, archive footage, talking about real people. I was so sure that i was a real documentary, however i didnt want to openly say it and embarrass myself so i kept my mouth shut.
Other people also agreed with this idea and were put in their place by others who argued that it was not a documentary. These people said that the Spice Girls werent being temselves, they were being characters and were acting their way through the “documentary” so in fact it cant be a documentay, because it is not about real lives. Also, even thought it is archive footage, it is archive footage of theme characters, not real people so again this disproves the idea that these programmes are real documentaries.
All of these arguments realky confused me, because initially i was sure that it was a documentary, and now my thoughts had been shaken up by some really good points. I do agree that they are characters on screen, however when they talk about their past and what they did in their lives before being a Spice Girl and during their carrer, they are talking about real life events, things that actually happened, so surely that counts as a documentary? However, i dont know what i think about whether it is or isnt a documentary and i cannot decide whether it is one or not, so i guess ill have to just remain confused until i make up my mind.
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