I’m a Bristol based documentary filmmaker looking for a Presenter.

Please ask any of your drama group who are interested in Presenting to email me:

menekseozkutan@yahoo.co.uk

Many thanks!

Menekse Ozkutan

But I think you’re right to point out degrees of separation from reality in all media forms that attempt to portray life as it is. The journalistic film tries to bring its audience closer to a sense of ‘real’ than say a Hollywood block buster does, though both types of film were shot through a camera lens. Similar degrees of separation exist in theatre between a ‘verbatim’ type play for example and a fictional fantasy piece like The Lion King. That we hold one style more ‘real’ than another comes down to our way of seeing. After all it only takes the subtitle ‘based on a real story’ to change our entire perception of a film and the way in which we relate to its characters and subject matter. The sense of being ‘there’ is also an important factor. You may have noticed that during the recent war between Israel and Lebannon journalists were getting as close as possible to the fray, often showing shots of rockets and tanks firing, explosions, smoke etc in ‘real time’, the one thing that is still taboo in the media is showing blood and guts on camera. Similarly in theatre the experience of the ‘real’ is heightened when the wall between audience and performer is brought down, as in the case of participatory drama for example. Here the onus is on me as the audience having become part of the performance, part of a community, become human again, but still in a fictional space. The fictional space is the theatre, the artifice with its lights and sound and prescribed forms, that of film is the camera, the lens. Both spaces wield the double edged attibute of making the audience feel near and far at the same time.