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Documentary and Reality Media Flashcards

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What is a subgenre?

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A genre within a genre e.g a fly on the wall documentary.

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What is factual media?

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It’s about real life people and real events. It is a representation of reality.

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What is documentary defined as?

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A text that presents a social, political, historical or scientific subject in a factual or informative manner.

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What is the issue with documentaries?

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Although they are concerned with actuality (what actually happens), it isn’t real life. Its a representation of reality.

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What are a documentary’s three main functions?

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Educate
Inform
Entertain

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What are a documentary’s four minor functions?

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Give insight
Provoke thought and action
Campaign
Highlight an injustice

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Give 9 conventions of a documentary.

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Actuality footage
Archive footage
Talking heads
Interviews
Use of experts
Witness testimony
Reconstruction
Voice-over narration
Graphical information
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What are 5 different types of documentary?

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Fly on the wall
Docu-drama
Docu-soap
Investigative documentary
Personal
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What was the first documentary to ever be filmed?

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John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It was aired live on TV.

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What is the expository mode of documentary?

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The ‘voice of god’ documentary. This is the most frequent mode of documentary used. It uses a narrator and assumes a logical argument, using direct address and offering a preferred meaning.

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What is the poetic mode of documentary?

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This is the subjective and artistic expression documentary. This documentary allows its audience to grasp an ‘inner truth’.

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What is the observational mode of documentary?

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The ‘window on the world’ documentary. It gives its audience an unbiased view of its subject matter.

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What is the participatory mode of documentary?

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This type of documentary allows direct engagement between the filmmaker and the participants. The filmmaker becomes a part of the events being recorded.

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What is the reflexive mode of documentary?

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This documentary emphasises that the version of events being displayed is ‘a’ truth, but not ‘the’ truth. It acknowledges that it is just a representation of reality.

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What is the performative mode of documentary?

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This documentary allows the filmmaker to be a participant and a performer. It acknowledges the emotional and social impact on the audience.

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What did Eisenstein say about his use of montage editing?

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He used it as an attempt to provoke an emotional response from his audience.

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Who is the director of 4 of the highest grossing documentaries of all time and what are they?

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Michael Moore (director)

  • Roger and Me
  • Bowling for Columbine
  • Fahrenheit 9/11
  • Capitalism: A Love Story
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Why is reality TV popular among media companies?

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It’s cheap and profitable. There’s a need to fill airtime and reality TV is a cheap way to fill that time. It can also be licensed and sold around the world for profit. To format globally, structure and content needs to be simple, easily understood, direct and adaptable. There’s a variety of subgenres to appeal to modern, niche audiences.

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What are some of the features of reality TV?

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  • Use of recognisable faces: ‘ordinary people’
  • Easily understood by audiences: simple formats and subject matter
  • Voyeuristic: audiences gain pleasure from looking into other people’s lives
  • Spin-offs in other media: gossip magazines and online content
  • Interactivity: voting systems and online discussions
  • New media platform friendly
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Explain the origins of the ‘fly on the wall’ documentary

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It originated in the 1960/70s and was used to describe a style of documentary used in the US and UK (sometimes known as Direct Cinema in the US). It’s now more of a technique than a style of documentary.

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What is the style of the ‘fly on the wall’ documentary?

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Represents the world as truthfully and realistically as possible. This allows the subjects to completely narrate themselves with little interface from the filmmaker. These documentaries are simply observational - like a fly on the wall.

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What are the technical codes of the ‘fly on the wall’ documentary?

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Handheld cameras
Natural lighting
High shooting ratio
Uneven zooms and jump cuts

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What is the subject matter of the fly on the wall documentary?

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Often institutions such as prisons, hospitals, schools etc. These subjects attract the curiosity of audiences.

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