Existe algum nome para “documentários falsos” que se apresentam como programação educacional?

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Nos últimos anos, redes como o The Discovery Channel veicularam os chamados documentários que têm pessoas acreditando que o que estão vendo não é apenas educacional, mas que os eventos realmente aconteceram.

Um exemplo disso seria o polêmico "documentário" de 2 horas originalmente foi ao ar em 2013 durante a popular Semana do Tubarão do Discovery Channel intitulada Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives :

"Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives," convinced 70% of viewers that the giant prehistoric shark still existed even as outraged scientists insisted that the show was ludicrous and almost entirely fictional. It didn't help that Discovery made coy comments about the documentary being a legitimate contribution to scientific debate.

Outro exemplo foi originalmente veiculado pelo Animal Planet em 2012 intitulado Sereias: a nova evidência :

Discovery-owned channel Animal Planet has aired two other fake documentaries in recent years — replete with actors, fabricated events, CGI, and faked footage — which explore the apparently scientific evidence for mermaids.

Although Animal Planet admitted in a subsequent press release that its "documentary" was science-fiction, the show presented itself as rigorously scientific.

Many viewers seem to take them at their word, with children being especially vulnerable to deception.

O Discovery Channel e o Animal Planet afirmam que são "dramatizações". Várias agências de notícias chamam esses "documentários falsos". Existe um nome dado aceito para esses tipos especiais de televisão? Alguns podem chamar esses especiais de televisão a Mockumentary . Sempre foi meu entendimento que uma paródia deve ser alcançada para classificar um Mockumentary. Estes "documentários falsos" são considerados Mockumentaries?

    
por steelersquirrel 23.06.2016 / 08:59

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2 termos diferentes cobrem isso. Docufiction :

is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film.

It is a film genre which attempts to capture reality such as it is (as direct cinema or cinéma vérité) and which simultaneously introduces unreal elements or fictional situations in narrative in order to strengthen the representation of reality using some kind of artistic expression.

E Docudrama :

a genre of radio and television programming, feature film, and staged theatre, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. On stage, it is sometimes known as documentary theatre.

In the core elements of its story a docudrama strives to adhere to known historical facts, while allowing a greater or lesser degree of dramatic license in peripheral details, and where there are gaps in the historical record. Dialogue may include the actual words of real-life persons, as recorded in historical documents. Docudrama producers sometimes choose to film their reconstructed events in the actual locations in which the historical events occurred.

A docudrama, in which historical fidelity is the keynote, is generally distinguished from a film merely "based on true events", a term which implies a greater degree of dramatic license; and from the concept of "historical drama", a broader category which may also encompass largely fictionalized action taking place in historical settings or against the backdrop of historical events.

Os documentários da Semana do Tubarão seriam mais do último. Eles não são Mockumentaries, pois não tentam ridicularizar, satirizar ou parodiar documentários reais. Ele se apresenta como honestamente real, ou pelo menos, como plausível que ifs.

While the shows contained brief on-screen warning about events depicted in the show being “dramatized,” they didn’t mention that the stories were completely fabricated. Many viewers, in fact, believed them to be real.

Last August 6, Fox News reported that Michael Sorensen, executive producer of Shark Week, defended Megladon and told FOX411 in a statement: “With a whole week of Shark Week programming ahead of us, we wanted to explore the possibilities of Megalodon. It’s one of the most debated shark discussions of all time, can Megalodon exist today? It’s Ultimate Shark Week fantasy. The stories have been out there for years and with 95% of the ocean unexplored, who really knows?”

Porque alguns [desclassificados, discrepantes] cientistas acreditam [contra evidências esmagadoras ou falta de evidência ou o que eles pensam são evidências] de que os assuntos podem existir. Lá em cima com a maioria dos criptozoólogos que acreditam que o Chupacabra e Bigfoot existem . Não é falso, apenas estúpido honestamente mantinha crenças.

Mas o novo presidente da Discovery prometeu parar essas falsificações.

President Rich Ross, who joined the network on January 5, says he’ll expand the network’s slate of scripted programming, particularly history-based dramas. Notably, he said he would not continue the network’s trend of telecasting the fake stuff. Under criticism for some of Discovery Channel’s programming choices, Ross fielded questions about that ... in January.

Ross explained that he’d made a very strong statement at the network as to the direction in which he’s taking Discovery Channel ... “This was not just a signal, it was a message that it’s very important to us, and to me, that when people are telling stories and they’re delivering information that it is true and can be entertaining as well, which is mandatory.”

    
23.06.2016 / 09:33

Paródia?

Orson Wells começou com a transmissão de notícias que os marcianos haviam desembarcado nos EUA.

Apenas pense - contar mentiras para as pessoas é entretenimento potencialmente aceitável para a maioria, mas teve efeitos terríveis em alguns indivíduos.

    
23.06.2016 / 22:13