Cinema Verite

Cinema Verite films suggest that director just went with his camera to a family reunion and started to randomly record everyone's conversations from strange angles (I guess that's why there are a lot of mockumentaries about this). However, as in 'Mass Observation' project, the work done in Cinema Verite is much more than it seems; there's actually a control in the shooting of the scenes to make it look natural and fairly realistic. I think it would be a good challenge for an amateur filmmaker to make a Cinema Verite film!