Images recreated in historical documentaries. An analysis of Con mi corazón en yambo and La muerte de Jaime Roldós. DOI: 10.37785/nw.v2n2.a2

Abstract

Documentaries record real events, however, sometimes recreated images are used to construct the narrative of events. Some positions disagree that the documentary should be fully adjusted to reality and not rely on fiction. In historical documentaries fictional resources are used in order to tell relevant facts of which archival images are not available. This work analyzes the images recreated in ecuadorian documentaries Con mi corazón en Yambo and La muerte de Jaime Roldós and how these scenes enrich the narrative without disentangling with the aesthetics raised in the rest of the documentary.