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Dziga Vertov was a pioneering Soviet documentary film and newsreel filmmaker as well as a cinema theorist. He was born in Russia, with the name David Abelevich Kaufman but he often went by the name Denis Kaufman. He was born on 2 January 1896 and died on 12 February 1954. His filming techniques and theories influenced the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking collective active from 1968 to 1972, as well as the cinéma vérité style of documentary filmmaking. His most famous film was Man with a Movie Camera (1929). This film portrays a day in a Russian city, however, it was filmed in several cities over 4 years. Vertov was heavily influenced by Eisenstein's use of montage and his aesthetic was driven by his political beliefs as a communist. Vertov believed that film truth should be captured, which is fragments of the actuality that, when organized together, have a deeper truth that cannot be seen by normal people. Vertov's Kino-Pravda focused on everyday experiences, eschewing ...

 Before documentaries (pre-1900) there were products that were called actual films. This portrayed their meaning which was to capture shortcuts of real actual events.  The first movies ever made were documentaries. They were also called newsreels. Actuality films lasted one minute or less During the 1920s in Russia, this could be described as the spirit of the documentary. The documentary started with the young poet and editor named Dziga Vertov. He created a series along with others called the Kino-Eye during the Russian Revolution. However, the first original documentary in the world was called Nanook of the North, by Robert Flaherty (1922). The film records the lives of a real Eskimo family. However, the first time that the word documentary was used was in 1926 by John Grierson, he defined the word as a word to describe a non-fiction film. During the 1930s and 1940s, documentaries became valuable propaganda tools for political purposes. Nazi Germany, America, and Britain we...

 Hello, I have now finished my AS-level media coursework and have moved on to the A-level coursework syllabus now. Over the summer I have been forecasting and brainstorming ideas and plans for this year's coursework; out of all the options I have for this year's coursework, I have decided to choose the documentary. I feel that with the documentary I can pose an issue or topic which is personal to me and can express awareness of this subject. I want to create a documentary around the area of mental health or inequality, however, mental health is in my favor at the moment. In summary, I will be consistently posting blogs on this page showing my progress, showing how I develop throughout the course.