According to the article “The Documentary Film and the New Media” states that a traditional classification of documentaries is related to the ratio in which the publishing material and cinematic substance of the film occur. (The Documentary Film and the New Media) Documentaries are usually shown as a one-way communication receptor to the audience, meaning that there is no interaction between what is being display and the audience. Documentary attempts to portray the impartial truth but instead take a partisan viewpoint and present the truth to the audiences, which ultimately results in social and emotional manipulations. (JFK Reloaded) Documentaries are like movies where is a story being told in a cinematic way. Taking this into account documentaries are sub grouped into three different category documentary movie, documentary theme, and news documentary. A documentary movie relies heavily on the expressive principles and merits of the creative cinematic image. This type of documentary …show more content…
Robert Flaherty’s 1922 documentary Nanook of the North struggles between reality and fiction. Nanook of the North is a documentary that follows an Inuit family and their constant battles to survive the harsh artic climate. Before Robert Flaherty had started filming and capturing footage of the family he studied their actions and daily routines to arrange activities of relevance to the overall narrative to be re-enacted on film and to fake certain scenes to get certain camera shots. And when it came time to edit the film Robert Flaherty would make the illusion that everything was filmed in real-time and not temporarily fixed in order to get a certain emotional reaction. While Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North claims to be a documentary that has a genuine true story, this in fact contradicts itself by proving it’s a misrepresentation of the truthful and objective form. (JFK
In this documentary, the conventions and techniques included are; real footage, recorded audio, written codes, montages, use of authority figures/experts, facts and statistics, interviews, bystanders, animation, background music etc. The four conventions/techniques that I will be discussing in this essay will be real footage, use of authority figures/experts, sound and bystanders.
"Genre: A group of films having recognizably similar plots, character types, settings, filmic techniques, and themes." (Konigsberg:165) The Genre of this film is difficult to define because it is not composed of a single agenda. The director makes a point of talking about Tosh’s life, but because of the cinematic themes and the film’s style it is not solely a documentary. This film is also a multimedia film because elements of music and concert footage are added to the essential plot. This film is avant-garde in it’s nature. "Avant-garde [refers to films that] deny the traditional narrative structure and techniques of commercial films by seeking to explore new modes of visual and emotional experience." (Konigsberg:25) It could be considered an anthology film, because of the various concert footage that is woven throughout the movie. "An Anthology film is a full length film made up of excerpts from other films which are related by some theme [or] the appearance of the same performer." (Konigsberg:16)
JFK's vice president, Lyndon Johnson, all had some sort of motive to have JFK dead (Goertzel
This report aims to make light of certain elements of documentary making that are perhaps more susceptible to influence on the director’s part, and once again explore the effect of these decisions on the audience’s reaction to the information presented.
Media. The main means of mass communication regarded collectively. It comes in the form of t.v., radio, newspapers, magazines etc. The media has a way of portraying a story in a way that they want it to be seen by audiences. In other words, the media only tells us only what they want us to hear; which, may or may not be the truth or include the entire story. The media is always looking for the next best story and the competition to be the first one on the scene can be intense. A documentary by 9.14 Productions tells the story of a man and his art collection; The Barnes Foundation.
The film illuminates the life of the Wampanoag language and cultural meanings. How there had been threats posed to both since the times of European colonization, when the Wampanoag people had put up little resistance. The film is not a recap of the Wampanoag
The documentary is structured in a way that presents the factual information first, and uses
King, Thomas. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Print.
Kennedy, J. F. (1962, December 14). JFK Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved from Address to the Economic Club of New York: www
The genre of the film is how we know what kind of film it is. Genre is a French word which literally means type; it shows what category a film comes under. There are certain factors in a genre which will identify it. Things like settings, characters and themes can all be similar in one specific genre.
The entire film is spoken in Inuktitut to show how the language is very crucial in telling the story and explain the importance language plays in their culture and everyday lives, from hunting for food to taking care of the elders. The tribes in Atanarjuat consider themselves tribes that have to fight and survive on their land. This characteristic represents visual sovereignty as it is a trait the elders telling the story have also passed down through generations. They are using the methods of visual storytelling to explain actual occurrences within a Native American tribe or family. “Igloolik Isuma Productions, Inc., the company that produced this film, employs ethnographic film conventions to serve didactic purposes within the Inuit communities of Canada, forging much-needed economic opportunities in depressed markets, educating younger generations alienated from community elders and tribal epistemologies through diasporic conditions, and addressing the lingering effects of colonization, natural environments in immediate peril, and high mortality, substance abuse, and incarceration rates in order to expand to future children and the unknowledgeable public” (Raheja 201). Some of the ways that visual sovereignty is seen is by describing the power women have in the Inuit culture, allowing the audience to see how the different gender roles are played out in Native American culture. The filmmakers also pay attention to detail by panning through landscapes slowly and holding on to specific scenes that enable the audience to gather the intensity of the situation. We see different shots from the characters’ daily lives, showing the methodology behind cooking and preparing meat, and the disputes that occur on the ice between the tribes for food or marriage. The filmmaker deliberately took incredibly long shots of people
As a result, both films represent Natives Americans under the point of view of non-Native directors. Despite the fact that they made use of the fabricated stereotypes in their illustrations of the indigenous people, their portrayal was revolutionary in its own times. Each of the films add in their own way a new approach to the representation of indigenous people, their stories unfold partly unlike. These differences make one look at the indigenous not only as one dimensional beings but as multifaceted beings, as Dunbar say, “they are just like us.” This is finally a sense of fairness and respect by the non-native populations to the Native Indians.
There are three major types of movies: narrative (a fiction story being told), documentary (nonfiction recording of reality, educating of the audience, or political and social analyses) and experimental
Film genres are categories, classifications or groups of films that have a similar, familiar or instantly recognizable patterns, techniques or conventions that include one or more of the following: setting, content, themes, plot, motifs, styles, structures, situations, characters, and stars (filmsite.org and notes). There are many categories of film genre. These categories can cover practically any film ever made by man, although film categories can never be precise. By isolating the various elements in a film and categorizing them in genres, it is possible to easily evaluate a film within its genre and allow for meaningful comparisons and some judgements on greatness. Some genres are considered period-specific, occurring primarily in one time period. One such example is film noir (filmsite.org).
2. Nichols, Bill. ‘Documentary Modes of Representation (The Observational Mode).’ Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary. Bloomington & Indianapolis; Indiana University Press. 1991. 38-44