PPT-An Introduction to Documentary Film

M odes of Documentary What makes a Documentary A documentary should meet the following criteria The events being filmed must not be staged the events must exist above and beyond the activity of filming them. Explicit. Generalizations included in a text about one or more of its subjects. Explicit meanings are sometimes thought as flawed in Western storytelling, because these audiences like meanings to be suggested and not explained. and styles . of documentaries. Types of documentaries. There are nine different types of documentaries with which you should be familiar. They are:. News. Travel. Social. Research. Scientific. History. Reflexive and . Performative. Modes of Documentary Films. Table of Contents. 1) Reflexive Mode of Documentary Representation. 2) . Dziga. . Vertov. and . Man with a Movie Camera. 3) . Performative. D. ocumentary. : . a non-fiction . film or TV . program which presents information, ideas or issues constructed for a variety of purposes. Documentaries focus on the real world and usually aim to instruct or to reveal some factual truth about it.. By Megan Northcote. Ashe County Public Library . program proposal. Project Overview. The Centennial Oral . H. istory . D. ocumentary . p. roject is an intergenerational, summer program where teens interview and film local adults and senior citizens as they share their stories and remembrances of West Jefferson over the last 100 years. . Europe’s Immigration Disaster . (UK, Zed Nelson, 2014). Rick Instrell. Deep Learning. 4 June 2016, Stirling. Version 2.0. Defining documentary. Scots-born . John Grierson . (1898-1972) defined documentary as “the creative treatment of actuality”. . Documentaries. t. ake us where we often do not, cannot, or even do not want to go; they present the lives of people or subjects with whom we may have little in common, knowledge about, or interest in.. Types of documentary . THE EXPOSITORY MODE OF DOCUMENTARY. The expository mode addresses the viewer directly, with titles or voices that propose a perspective, advance and argument, or recount history. . By Eoin Kenny. What are codes and conventions. These are rules that media organisations must follow when making factual programmes.. Visual codes, for example, how the presenter looks, this will include that they must have a suit, shaved and neat haircut. They must have good communications skills, knowledge of the topic being reported and have a string sense of professional ethics.. The Documentary Genre. Origins & Style. Types . and styles . of documentaries. Origins. John Grierson, a key figure in the British documentary school, is thought to have been the first to use the term to describe a film by Robert Flaherty in 1926, which he described as having “documentary value.”. Elize. S van . Eeden. 21. st. SASHT Conference. (celebrating the SASHT's 30. th. year). 6 October 2016 (Port Elizabeth). Managing. . Editor. Seamus Reynolds (. eNCA. ). Meg Rickards (. Director-writer. End of the Line : Documentary and Zine Graham Scholars: Rachel Beglin, Claire Gregory, Noah Rothstein, Sarah Jernigan, Sarah Schachner, Maria Redoutey, Elena Essa, Eva Antebi-Lerman, Lou Finazzo, Maddy Schmitter and Renzi Wise Documentary Film The 39-minute documentary film The Imam and the Pastor brings to life the astonishing reconciliation between Imam Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye, who were able to end the ethni [New Spec 2017/18]. Component 1: Varieties. of film and filmmaking . Exam – 2 ½ hours (35%). Section A: Hollywood 1930-1990 (comparative. study). Section B: American film since 2005 (two-film study).