Amy
- Film form
- Meaning and response
- Contexts
- CRITICAL DEBATES
- FILMMAKERS THEORIES
20 marks - 1 hour (+ 2.5 mins)
- Apply one filmmakers theory of documentary film you have studied to your chosen documentary. How far does this increase your understanding of the film.
The sound is the most important element to analyse in the documentary, in terms of how meaning is created.
Editing is also important.
What is a documentary?
- using pictures or interviews to create a factual report on a particular subject
Documentary: a dogmatic film without actors, commonly including footage and interviews, of a particular subject that investigates and informs a spectator on an intense and in depth level.
-non-fiction
-informative
-factual
-montage
-interview
-representation
Types of documentary
Expository: Speak directly to the viewer with voice-over. These films use explicitly rhetorical techniques in order to explore points of actuality. They use voice-over and have straightforward show and tell structure (with graphics/interviews/footage) where the viewer is guided through the material. Often television documentary falls into this category
Poetic: Shares a common terrain with the modernist avant-garde. This mode sacrifices the conventions of continually editing scenes of a specific location in time and place. These films are allusive and often surprise and challenge students in what they think documentary are. They use associative editing in order to create a mood or tone without making an explicit argument about a subject.
Observational: In this mode, the camera looks on as the participants in the film go on with their lives as though the camera wasn't present. The film-maker steps back from the material he/she is shooting taking a 'neutral' stance from the subject matter. Of course this may well (and should) open up debates about selection of material, lack of voiceover and editing devices.
Participatory: The filmmaker interacts with his or her participants. The relationship between the filmmaker and the person being filmed becomes more direct and complex. He or she directly participates in shaping what happens before the camera, especially in terms of conducting interviews.
Reflexive: This mode calls attention to the conventions of documentary filmmaking in terms of a direct acknowledgment of filmmaking process.
Performative: This mode emphasizes the expressive quality of the filmmaker's engagement with the subject of the film and addresses the audience in a vivid way. This is where the filmmaker is not aloof from the subject matter but who actively engages with t he material, where they are a seen participant.
The first scene in the film, the camera pans directly to Amy when she starts to monoplolise attention.
The filmmaker wants to show that Amy has a natural talent: a raw singing voice, the scene foreshadows her fame to come.
This scene was chosen to show her predigous talent. There are signs that she will be inviting papparazzi.
Has been meticulously edited together in order to display Amy as loving of the limelight.
Critical debates: The impact of technology and everything being documented
- Meaning and response
- Contexts
- CRITICAL DEBATES
- FILMMAKERS THEORIES
20 marks - 1 hour (+ 2.5 mins)
- Apply one filmmakers theory of documentary film you have studied to your chosen documentary. How far does this increase your understanding of the film.
The sound is the most important element to analyse in the documentary, in terms of how meaning is created.
Editing is also important.
What is a documentary?
- using pictures or interviews to create a factual report on a particular subject
Documentary: a dogmatic film without actors, commonly including footage and interviews, of a particular subject that investigates and informs a spectator on an intense and in depth level.
-non-fiction
-informative
-factual
-montage
-interview
-representation
Types of documentary
ØPoetic
ØExpository
ØParticipatory
ØObservational
ØReflexive
ØPerformative
Expository: Speak directly to the viewer with voice-over. These films use explicitly rhetorical techniques in order to explore points of actuality. They use voice-over and have straightforward show and tell structure (with graphics/interviews/footage) where the viewer is guided through the material. Often television documentary falls into this category
Poetic: Shares a common terrain with the modernist avant-garde. This mode sacrifices the conventions of continually editing scenes of a specific location in time and place. These films are allusive and often surprise and challenge students in what they think documentary are. They use associative editing in order to create a mood or tone without making an explicit argument about a subject.
Observational: In this mode, the camera looks on as the participants in the film go on with their lives as though the camera wasn't present. The film-maker steps back from the material he/she is shooting taking a 'neutral' stance from the subject matter. Of course this may well (and should) open up debates about selection of material, lack of voiceover and editing devices.
Participatory: The filmmaker interacts with his or her participants. The relationship between the filmmaker and the person being filmed becomes more direct and complex. He or she directly participates in shaping what happens before the camera, especially in terms of conducting interviews.
Reflexive: This mode calls attention to the conventions of documentary filmmaking in terms of a direct acknowledgment of filmmaking process.
Performative: This mode emphasizes the expressive quality of the filmmaker's engagement with the subject of the film and addresses the audience in a vivid way. This is where the filmmaker is not aloof from the subject matter but who actively engages with t he material, where they are a seen participant.
The first scene in the film, the camera pans directly to Amy when she starts to monoplolise attention.
The filmmaker wants to show that Amy has a natural talent: a raw singing voice, the scene foreshadows her fame to come.
This scene was chosen to show her predigous talent. There are signs that she will be inviting papparazzi.
Has been meticulously edited together in order to display Amy as loving of the limelight.
Critical debates: The impact of technology and everything being documented
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