Here are 7 steps on how to write a documentary script:

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A docudrama focuses on one real-life situation (either historical, or of current interest) and tells it in story-like fashion. The purpose is inform, as well as entertain. COPS is not fictional at all; it is footage of real life.

1. Finding the Story You’re Meant to Tell. Why documentary?
2. Research, Research, Research.
3. Blueprint Your Documentary.
4. Writing the Script.
5. Compel Your Viewer.
6. Declare Your Point Of View.
7. Finesse Your Project.

is that docudrama is a type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events while documentary is a film, tv program, publication etc which presents a social.

The Best Docudramas of All Time

• Dog Day Afternoon 1975, 125 min.
• All the President’s Men 1976, 138 min.
• The Battle of Algiers 1966, 121 min.
• A Man Escaped 1956, 99 min.
• Band of Brothers 2001, 705 min.
• Apollo 13 1995, 140 min.
• 12 Years a Slave 2013, 133 min.
• The Right Stuff 1983, 193 min.

verbatim theatre

Recorded delivery is one way of creating Verbatim Theatre. Instead of transcribing the interviews into a script, the interviews are edited into audio tracks. Performers then listen to the tracks through headphones live onstage and simply speak the words as they hear them.

Give them space instead of taking their words. The moment verbatim theatre forgets that it’s theatre, the issues with the form – the editorial hand, the interviewer-interviewee imbalance, the violence of appropriating the voices of others – become all the more apparent for going unacknowledged.

Verbatim theatre is theatre made from real people’s words. A form of documentary theatre, it allows theatre makers to explore events and themes through the words of people at the heart of them, and was hugely influential in the revival of political theatre at the beginning of the 21st Century.

Theatre has an incredible reach, and for me, verbatim theatre has the added punch being able to engage with people on a human level. Verbatim plays can break down complex social issues and promote change, by presenting a digestible, authentic piece of theatre, with clear messages to take-home.

Strictly, verbatim theatre-makers use real people’s words exclusively, and take this testimony from recorded interviews. Documentary theatre by contrast encompasses other found sources such as newspaper articles and diaries.

Brecht was a Marxist and made his theatre highly political. To do this he invented a range of theatrical devices known as epic theatre. Epic theatre is a type of political theatre that addresses contemporary issues, although later in Brecht’s life he preferred to call it dialectal theatre.

Didactic Theatre is a type of theatre used to teach. Its purpose is to send a message to the audience.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdi‧dac‧tic /daɪˈdæktɪk, də-/ adjective 1 speech or writing that is didactic is intended to teach people a moral lesson His novel has a didactic tone.

Didacticism is all about teaching and educating and the word didactic comes from a Greek term meaning the same. The term didacticism, when referring to writing, describes literature serving as a means to teach the reader something, whether that be morals or how to make stew.

Pedantic means “like a pedant,” someone who’s too concerned with literal accuracy or formality. It’s a negative term that implies someone is showing off book learning or trivia, especially in a tiresome way.

Noun. tarnation (countable and uncountable, plural tarnations) (archaic) The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.