Verisimilitude In Documentary

Verisimilitude is useful in a fictional setting or re-creation, to provide a look of realism for a scene that might be the truth, but is not real, its a reenactment. Making a documentary requires meticulous attention to what will ultimately be shown to an audience. The verifiable truth of a documentary depends on the honestly of the documentarian in presenting an accurate analog of the situation as e or she understands it. If you're filming a cold, winter scene in a studio and you take care that the actor's breath is visible.  Using verisimilitude in the editing can mean trying to get into the heads of your audience to see how a sequence will appear to them.