Documentary films have become very important ways of bringing in edutainment, that is they are used as a tool to not only inform but educate people. These forms of edutainment could also be used to help change the world into a better place while enlightening the world as to what is going on around them as is one of the objectives of the Growing documentary. The growing documentary even gives the audience a chance to contribute to the story being told and to sharpen their film production skills.
Growing documentary is a unique concept of producing a documentary film. The content from one film can continue to develop and lead to another documentary film within the same path. Growing documentary involves many people from different background as crowd resources personnel to provide data, which could help to build the documentary itself. One of its main aims is to facilitate user collaboration in documentary film production that can grow depending on the audience's feedback and crowd sourcing. The author and her team were involved in the grand design and on the production. From the testing of the production by the the filmmaker and the audience, it shows that growing documentary has a possibility to have its own market and grow as it was able to produce high quality production/film despite the limited amount of time and resources. This research also revealed that it generated the effectiveness of the production work flow and networking between the collaborators.
The novelty of this research is to show how film production can be used as a sociotechnology medium to gather resources and act as one of the messengers.

修士学位論文. 2012年度メディアデザイン学 第210号