Direct Cinema Flashcards
The observation technique of the ______ Cinema movement was paralleled in America during the early 1960s by a similar movement that became known as Direct Cinema.
Free.
The key technique of this movement was to use lightweight cameras and portable synchronised sound-recording equipment to get close to their subjects and let them _____.
Talk.
Up to this point documentaries had largely concentrated on action – seeing the subject doing rather than talking – but films of this movement, such as _______ (Drew Associates/Time Magazine, US, 1960, Dir: Robert Drew) allowed the subjects of the films (both events and people) to speak for themselves without mediation by an imposed narrator.
Primary.
In order to avoid the effect of the camera on the subject, the filmmakers in this movement gravitated towards subjects for whom the camera would not be an unusual object, such as the US Senators in Primary, Bob ______ in Don’t Look Back (Leacock-Pennebaker, US, 1966, Dir: D.A. Pennebaker) and Marlon Brando in Meet Marlon Brando (Mayasles Films, US, 1965, Dir: Albert and David Maysles).
Dylan.
A late arrival to the movement, Frederick __________, was to take it in a different direction by adopting an approach where his crew would spend enough time with the documentary subjects for them to become comfortable with, and eventually largely ignore, the camera.
Wiseman.
The technique worked and he produced the outstanding Titcut Folies (Frederick Wiseman, US, 1967) about a Massachusetts institution for the criminally ________.
Insane.
These films differed from movements that had gone before, as they were intended for __________, not cinematic release.
Television.
The style they adopted (__________ camerawork, ‘loose’ movement, simple composition) were all informed by the destination of the work, and so began an evolution in documentary form, away from the cinematic and towards the televisual.
Handheld.
In the 1970s these filmmakers largely turned to portable _______ cameras to continue their work.
Video.
The key technique of this movement was to use ___________ cameras and portable synchronised sound-recording equipment to get close to their subjects and let them talk.
Lightweight.
