According to Bill Nichols, the reality of documentary is always controversial because what is reality? what we see is reality or what we are told is reality? We might have a long way to figure it out.

In Nichols’s documentary taxonomy, Poetic mode, Expository mode, Observational mode, Reflexive mode and Performative mode are main five documentary modes. Different modes have different functions for the documentary storytelling. For example, expository mode features a voice-over to tell the story meanwhile the advocacy of observational mode ‘no interrupting on the reality’ At this point, Adrian’s philosophy of taxonomy (Week 3 Lecture) inspires me. Taxonomy does not really matter but what it does matter is what they do and how you gonna use. In fact, documentary is telling what filmmakers believe that is truth whether is really true or not. The use of different mode is the best way to con vin audience to believe what filmmakers believe.

Okay, Here is my question. Is any chance to use the conventional documentary modes in Korsakow?  Korsakow is kind of documentary, a new documentary exists in Networked technologies. I found it couldn’t tell a story as same as traditional documentary does. Mainly, conventional documentary tells a story in a linear way rather than fragmentary. However, there is no such circuit in Korsakow. It is really hard to convince audience to understand what we wanna tell…