Hill(2005) has defined that “there are a variety of styles and techniques associated with reality TV, such as non-professional actors, unscripted dialogue, surveillance footage, hand-held cameras, seeing events unfold as they are happening in front of the camera.” Reality TV is based on reality and fact in people’s life to film or tell something to the audience. The examples of reality TV in New Zealand could be Big Brother and The Real World (Wikipedia).
How has the documentary genre influenced reality TV and how it presents the “real”?
Grierson has defined documentary as “the creative treatment of actuality”. Documentary is based on the fact, it is real. Directors make documentaries in order to tell audience what happened to one thing. Documentary has a very strong facticity. As a result, people can believe documentary more than TV shows or programs. Reality is also not a very drama genre, so it can follow some ways of documentary. Because of the facticity of documentary, you can say it is mostly real. Directors use real situation, real things and ordinary people not actors and actresses to film, it makes the documentary easier to believe.
Reality Television in Wikipedia, Retrieved 21th, October, 2010, fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television
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