What is difference between a documentary film and a feature film?

Question

i m studentof journalism and so want to know differencd between these two.

Answer 1

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Documentary is a depiction or direct filming ("cinema verité") of a real life situation rather than a fictional story. Feature is a reduction of the term "main feature" from the days when not only the main movie would be shown but also some news real footage and/or cartoons. Now we just say "feature-length" to mean a full-length or standard-length film presentation. Some authorites suggest that this must be over 70 minutes else it should be classified as a "short feature" or just "a short".

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Answer 2

By mere definition a distinctive line is drawn between a documentary and fiction. Fiction is said to be a transitory world of make believe. Where transitory suggests the reenactment of reality. John Grieson defines documentary at the other hand as a creative treatment of actuality. Where actuality is given much reference.By contrats with documentary we asumme that a fiction film presents imaginary beings, places or events.

Answer 3

feature film is a story made for the purpose of entertainment, whereas documentary films are educational and informative based on social, cultural, and historical issues.

Answer 4

Even though I am not an expert on this field , my understanding is as follows:
A Documentary Film is a Video Film that focusses on a particular Topic or a Group of Topics of National or International Relevance. A topic can be Poaching of Tigers in a Wildlife Sanctuary, or Employment of under age children in Hazardous Industry . It can also be an International Topic like Israel-Palestine Conflict.

A Feature film on the other hand is more geared towards showing a Fictional Story to viewers . It can also be based on True Life figures but uses Movie male and Female Actors.
It can have songs ( more so in Bollywood !) , Fight Scenes, Special Animations , other Digital Effects . It can also be a science fiction -like Star Wars or Comic based movies like Batman series , Superman Series ; totally cut off from Real Life and so on .

Answer 5

A lot of difference.. a documentary is meant to visualize some real life event in a movie form.. it is meant to propagate the reality amoongst the audience.. for an example a documtary on wildlife protection.. may user any state.. as a theme.. or any place where trees are felled indiscriminately.. or having low total area being green.a feature film as and when begins.. clearl indicated that the story line and characters are PURELY A WORK OF FICTION.. and any resemblance to any character living or dead is PRELY CO INCIDENTAL..that is my opinion..

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Answer 6

Feature films are about 2 hours long and generally fictitious.