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- O processo de omissão na construção da narrativa no filme documentário : análise de um caso de estudoPublication . Carmona, Carlos Ruiz; Espiña, Yolanda; Campos, JorgeThis thesis presents original research with regard to narrative construction and event representation in documentary. The thesis incorporates selected bibliographical research and a case study of a documentary shot and edited by myself. The principal objective has been to research the process of narrative construction from the point of view of that who represents the event, the filmmaker: the only individual who has access to all the decisions and justifications involved in representing an event. The focus of the research lies on the concept of “omission” as a fundamental aspect in documentary making for representing the historical world. Omission refers to the process of removing visual or sound event information during the act of filming and during narrative construction in order to represent an event. The case study incorporates the construction of two different narrative versions of the same event and from the same raw material so as to undertake a comparative research analysis on narrative construction, in terms of omission and structure, between both narrative versions. This case study was only possible to implement from the point of view of the filmmaker. This means having complete access to all the raw material and to all the decisions involved in constructing the narrative to represent the event as the filmmaker intended . The research has established that documentary narratives, independently of the mode or strategy used by the filmmaker when representing the historical world, unlike in fiction, emerges from the process of omission. This process consists of organising the filmmaker's experience of the event into a narrative form. During the act of filming, the filmmaker must implement partial and total omission simultaneously from the historical event. This incorporates acquiring images and sounds which offer an indexical relationship with the event's past existence. During the act of narrative construction, filmmakers implement partial and total omission from the raw material. Subsequently, they organised non-omitted raw material into a specific structure. Through the research undertaken I have established that representing an event in documentary consists of organising, via partial and total omission, a limitless source of non-organised event information, the historical event, into an organised limited volume of images and sounds: an audiovisual narrative representing the filmmaker's personal experience. The concept of partial and total omission outlines documentary's fundamental technical restrictions and creative possibilities for representing the historical world. Omission represents a crucial element in documentary making to understand, organise and communicate the filmmaker's experience of the historical event through narrative forms.