English Ext: Documentary allowed as related text? (1 Viewer)

[19840115]

Hey,
i'm in year 12, doing After the Bomb, and i'm considering using a Documentary on the cold war for a related text. Is this okay, or do i have to use a fictional text?

 

[ekoolish]

no, you can use that. Crime writing can also be true crime as well.

 

[19840115]

thankyou

 

[Falsey]

Would a doco and a film be considered the same textual form and thus I can't use both as supps?

 

[alex.leon]

Ooh, that's a toughy.

I guess not, because they'd both have the same techniques (kinda like an article and a short story would both use the same techniques, but are still different text types)

But I probably wouldn't do it anyway, just in case. They're both the same medium, really. Both cinematic.

 

[Absolutezero]

1. You are allowed to use texts of the same textual type (unless things have changed since last year). However, its not recommend.

2. A documentary is different to a movie. Just as an article is different to a novel. They have a different purpose, and usually a different bias. Techniques differ as well.