What's the difference between documentary and narrator?

Documentary


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called “Homeward bound”, Putin openly discusses Moscow’s controversial grabbing of Crimea a year ago.
  • (2) The solar hypothesis was championed publicly in March by the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.
  • (3) Many drugs have been proposed although the documentary proof of their efficacy varies.
  • (4) The documentary was cleared of breaching Ofcom's broadcasting code.
  • (5) It means that I want to set a good example,” he told Swedish channel TV4, according to business daily Dagens Industri which viewed the documentary.
  • (6) Long before anyone had heard of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, she planned to make a low-budget documentary about oil and climate change.
  • (7) His decision to be filmed has echoes of the death of Guernsey-based hotelier Peter Smedley, whose assisted death in 2011 was screened in a documentary by the late Sir Terry Pratchett for the BBC .
  • (8) But if there's a piece you particularly enjoyed, or found interesting or useful, please add a comment below or tweet us: @GdnSocialCare At the start of the year, the BBC screened fly-on-the-wall documentary series Protecting Our Children , an authentic portrayal of the difficult decisions and situations social workers face every day.
  • (9) The German journalist whose documentary lifted the lid on claims of systematic doping in Russian athletics has said he is prepared to make a follow-up after receiving more evidence.
  • (10) Whereas a film documentary might piece together the sweatshop story through footage and anecdote, the game allows players to experience the system from the inside with all its cat's cradle of pressures and temptations.
  • (11) Years later, when Atkins' "Countrypolitan" touch was no longer fashionable, he was often asked by journalists and documentary-makers whether he and his fellow Svengalis had gone too far.
  • (12) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
  • (13) "I changed the names of the characters because I didn't want to make them more famous," she said, adding that it was "not a documentary" and that she was "not too concerned with the reactions" of the people on whom the story is based.
  • (14) Robert De Niro has appeared on US TV to defend documentary Vaxxed, which was pulled from this year’s Tribeca film festival after causing controversy.
  • (15) The documentary has its lighter moments, too – not all of them intentional.
  • (16) But he will also have seen Michael Cockerell's savage documentary on Saturday on How to be a Tory leader.
  • (17) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
  • (18) We’re prepared to inform international society about the steps we’re taking, the investigation, the decisions.” Pound’s report, commissioned in the wake of a devastating documentary by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt for ARD in December last year, outlined systemic cheating on a grand scale including a second “shadow lab” that was used to screen samples, anti-doping labs infiltrated by secret service agents and positive tests covered up for cash.
  • (19) Prior to BBC4 Hadlow was head of specialist factual at Channel 4, commissioning shows such as The 1940s House and acclaimed documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off .
  • (20) A piece in the New York Times claimed that pressure from the league might have led ESPN to end their association with Frontline, a TV documentary series which was a few weeks away from airing two pieces looking at the NFL's handling of head injuries.

Narrator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
  • (2) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
  • (3) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (4) Although the collection was one of Winehouse's major projects over the past year, it was also part of her narrative of relapse and decline.
  • (5) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
  • (6) The Russian channel has the specific mission to counter the narrative of the so-called “mainstream media” and often does not even attempt balanced coverage of global events.
  • (7) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
  • (8) The review received more than 2,200 documents, the report said, to generate a “narrative” of events.
  • (9) Narratives of illness in medical records and case presentations in teaching hospitals say surprisingly little about an important matter: what patients understand and feel.
  • (10) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
  • (11) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
  • (12) Because her achievements chime with bigger narratives.
  • (13) Events had to be shoehorned into a wider narrative.
  • (14) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
  • (15) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
  • (16) All subjects expressed at least some story content, but only the right hemidecorticate narratives conveyed suggestion and implication as well as explicit statement.
  • (17) The old narrative is that of segregation, leading to confined form of space and time.
  • (18) This study examines the use of the co-temporal connectives when, while and as in the elicited narratives of 71 children between 4;10 and 11;11.
  • (19) He suggested it formed part of a political narrative, justifying Bo's removal because he and his associates were "bad" people.
  • (20) In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan.