Stories We Tell Flashcards
Who is the filmmaker?
Sarah Polley
How is SWT partially expository?
It is the ANTITHESIS of expository, it explores the opposite
SWT is a ____ making it a reflexive documentary. Items in the ____ draw attention to the films construction. Making a larger point about that documentary is ____ and ____ and there is no ____ truth.
Meta-narrative, mise-en-scene, subjective, constructed, object
What is it called when we see images and therefore trust them to be truthful?
Indexical images
Who came up with this ‘theory’?
Bill Nichols
What does Bill Nichols fully explore / say?
He explains that in documentary images often function as evidence, because of their indexical relationship to something that exists in reality meaning documentary feels more objective to the audience as they believe it really happened.
What does polley do with this?
She asks the viewer to question their expectations of documentaries and their presentation of the truth. The film wants us to interpret indexical images rather than accept them as fact
What digital camera is used?
Sony CineAtta HDW-F900R
How is it edited?
Using non linear editing software (NLE)
What other digital technology is used?
Micro, wireless, multi directional microphones
What analogue camera is used?
Super 8 home movies (and canon 1014 AZ, Canon 1014XLS and Nikon R8)
What is the critical debate in SWT?
Significance of digital (and analogue) technology
What is the impact of mixing the 2?
Reconstructions look real; bend the truth
Digital tech can cut out footage and shape it to be how you want it to look
Digital looks cleaner and more official
Analogue gives that sense of truth
The mix adds both (in)authenticity as reconstructions look real but isn’t but also some vintage footage is real
Juxtaposition and nostalgia
Aesthetic of past and present
Cinema verité adds more emotion
Blur between real and fake, subjective and objective
Memory
Images function as indexical evidence
Who are our 2 filmmaker theories of?
Peter Watkins and nick Broomfield
Facts/What is Peter Watkins theory?
Mid 60s when revolution in cinema verité started, docudrama style, experimental provocative controversial and polemical cinema, stylistically and thematically intense, often a dramatic reconstruction
