Documentary

Question 1

Documentary filmmakers employ? I’m putting films together

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A wide variety of techniques

Question 2

Film writer Bill Nichols has identified different types of documentary film?

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Expository, observational , reflexive , interactive, performative

Question 3

The expository documentary features a ?

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Bodiless authoritative voice-over commentary combined with images that are descriptive and informative

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The voice over (voice-of-God commentary) addresses?

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The spectator directly

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And offers ? that are illustrated by?

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A series of facts/ arguments, image track

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The voiceover provides?

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A summary of info that the image cannot carry / comments on those actions and events in the image that are unfamiliar or require explanation for the audience

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The aim of expository documentary Is to be?

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Descriptive and informative/ provide a particular argument

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Expository is the ? mode of documentary , which is now more commonly used in?

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Classic ,TV documentaries

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Expository documentary is where? Via ?

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A summary of info is conveyed

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The overall effect of the expository documentary is one of?

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Objectivity (conveys info from omniscient POV; there’s no emotional emphasis on a character’s perspective), direct and transparent representation.

Question 11

The observational mode of the documentary is characterised by the?

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Non-intervention of the filmmaker in the filmed events

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The observational mode is more notable for?

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What it doesn’t contain; interviews, inter titles, voice of God commentary , archive footage

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The emphasis is to present a?

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Slice of life, or direct representation of the filmed events

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The observational documentary film- maker therefore aims to simply ?

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Observe unfolding events

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For this reason emphasis is placed on recording events as they?

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Unfold in real time

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This is why observational documentary is also called?

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Direct cinema

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In technical terms, the observational documentary tends on occasions to use?

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Long takes

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Sound is also? and was simply recorded while?

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Direct , the camera was rolling.

Question 19

The observational mode establishes a?

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Close relationship to the filmed events and establishes a sense of place by not manipulating or distorting the events

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The observational documentary is therefore attempting to persuade the viewer that the film is? That what is filmed is a?

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An accurate slice of life, clear record of what took place in front of the camera.

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In other words it’s meant to be?

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Neutral and non judgemental

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Terminus is an example of?

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Observational documentary

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Bill Nichols writes, “ an observational mode of representation allowed the filmmaker to?

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Record (without attracting attention) of what people did when they were not obviously addressing the camera.

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But the observational mode limited the filmmaker to the? And required a?

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present mode, disciplined distance from the events themselves

Question 25

Analysis of extract from terminus- in the early 1960s tech innovation made possible a new style of documentary filmmaking-?

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Lightweight cameras, portable sound equipment and film stock that could be used in lower light conditions

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These advances in film technology made possible a revolutionary new method of filmmaking employing? That came to be known as?

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Handheld cameras and live synchronous sound, direct cinema in America

Question 27

Observational documentary highlights the? In its purest form direct cinema refuses any use of?

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Non-intervention of the filmmaker, voice over commentary, non diegetic music, interviews, re-enactments and inter titles.

Question 28

This extract from terminus follows most of these rules and can therefore be identified as an example of?

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Direct cinema

Question 29

Richard Leacock and the pioneers of direct cinema believed that the advancements in film equipment would enable documentary to achieve? and also enable them to? As the cameras would become “?”.

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authenticity, collapse the distance between reality and representation, just a window someone peeps through

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The central idea of observational documentary is therefore to make the? To convince the viewer that what is taking place on screen is an? And a? record of what took place in front of the camera.

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camera disappear, authentic slice of life, transparent.

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The light weight hand-held camera enables the filmmaker to ?

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move freely around

Question 32

The ‘fly on the wall style’ takes us where? And makes us feel?

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‘Under the skin’, the wide variety of feelings and emotions

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The constantly moving camera , unusual framing and quick editing establishes both? with the passengers.
A sudden zoom communicates the?

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Intimacy and empathy.
Impatience and anxiety of a women

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Direct cinema does what?

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Observes a subject without interacting with it

Question 35

The “fly on the wall” observational documentary attempts to?, whereas the interactive documentary makes the filmmaker’s presence? As he/she interacts with the people or events being filmed.

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hide the presence of the film-maker from the viewer, noticeable.

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The content of the interactive documentary is based generally on?
Which draw out? And ? from those who are filmed

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Interviews, specific comments and responses

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Am interactive documentary that is well made will allow the filmed people to? And the filmmaker may? therefore offering the viewer a?

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express their opinions and views, contrast one opinion with a contrary opinion, balanced view

Question 38

Sometimes the filmmaker is the main person on screen which may serve to? This can be compared to the expository documentary in which the? holds the film together.
And the observational documentary where the ? have to hold the film together. With a little help from the ? Who?

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Hold the documentary together, bodiless voice of the narrator, events themselves, film-maker, edits the shots and scenes together.

Question 39

There are a no. of ways in which the filmmaker may interact with the people he/she is filming with.
For example they might? Or?

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Appear on screen and formally/ informally ask the interviewee questions.
They may remain off screen, where we may or may not hear the questions.

Question 40

Interactive documentaries show the?
Unlike expos or observ, the interactive documentary shows the?

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Process of interaction taking place, process by which it is made.

Question 41

In interactive documentary mode, the film can become?

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Part of the story

Question 42

Reflexive attempts to? Rather than? the reflexive documentary focuses on?
The effect is that the reflexive doc ?

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expose to the viewer the conventions (characters, props , themes , plot lines) of documentary representation.
Focus on the events and people filmed, how they are filmed.
Challenges the documentary’s apparent ability to reveal the truth.

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Reflexive doc reminds us that what we see in these films is a?

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Reconstructed reality conveyed through film

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Performative documentary? It aims to represent the world?

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Deflects attention away from the world and towards the expressive and poetic dimensions of film, secondarily.

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The performative doc evokes? It aims to present its subject matter in a?
The result is that the subject matter is expressed in a? way that encourages the viewer to?
But we have to ask ourselves whether the events become distorted as a result of?
Finally performative documentaries use?

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Mood or atmosphere traditionally found in fiction films.
Personal, expressive, unique, evocative and emotional manner.
Realistic, experience and feel them.
The way they are represented.
Re-enactments, highly stylised images (when images are in a natural state due to altering colours, shapes and lines and features, while also looking more dramatic and abstract) and soundtrack.