Taxonomy of Animated Documentary:
- has been recorded or created frame by frame
- is about the world rather than a world wholly imagined by its creator
- has been presented as a documentary by its producers and/or received as a documentary by audiences, festivals or critics
‘Animation, in part through its material differences from live-action film, shifts and broadens the limits of what and how we can show about reality by offering new or alternative ways of seeing the world. It can present the conventional subject matter of documentary (the ‘world out there’ of observable events) in non-conventional subjective, conscious experience – subject matters traditionally outside of the documentary purview’ (Annabelle Honess Roe, 2013: 1)
Authenticity:
The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’ (Honess Roe 2013, 3)