Life In Lock-down- Documentary Research
What is a documentary? is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record" - compare documentary theatre?
Types of documentaries. Explain what they are. Give examples of each.
Poetic Mode; Of documentary film tends toward subjective interpretations of its subject(s). Light on rhetoric, documentaries in the poetic mode forsake traditional narrative content: individual characters and events remain undeveloped, in favour of creating a particular mood or tone.
Expository Mode gives the narrator the role to explain or argue the film's rhetorical content. Stories and statements are given through voice-over with images to illustrate the tone of the film. Using this model, the filmmaker collects footage that functions to strengthen the spoken narrative.
Participatory Mode; the filmmaker does interact with his or her subjects rather than unobtrusively observe them." This interaction is present within the film; the film makes explicit that meaning is created by the collaboration or confrontation between filmmaker and contributor.
Observational Mode; involves emphasizing the documentary filmmaker's engagement in observing the subject's daily life and circumstances and documenting them with an unobtrusive camera.
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Reflective Mode; The reflexive mode of documentary promotes truth and calls the viewers attention to the film making process. Reflexive and participatory modes of documentary both seek to heighten awareness from the viewers' perspective so that they can gain an appreciation to the film making process
Performative Mode; Of documentary is the direct opposite of the observational mode. In Observational documentaries, unobtrusive observation of the subject is the director's aim. A Performative documentary emphasizes the filmmaker's own involvement with the subject
Features of a documentary.
Interviews is essentially a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers. In common parlance to a one-on-one conversation between an interviewer and an interviewee. The interviewer asks questions to which the interviewee responds
Cutaways in film and video, a cutaway is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually followed by a cut back to the first shot. A cutaway scene is the interruption of a scene with the insertion of another scene
Voice over Voice-over is a production technique where a voice that is not part of the narrative is used in a radio, television production, film making, theatre, or other presentations. The voice-over is read from a script and maybe spoken by someone who appears elsewhere in the production or by a specialist voice talent
Piece to camera In television and film, a piece to camera is when a television presenter or a character speaks directly to the viewing audience through the camera.
Graphics are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data
Structure of a Documentary Is the is made up of the beginning, the middle and the end, sometimes referred to as the three-act structure. this is very key to attract the audience to keep them hooked on what you want to talk about.
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