Production Production stage, filming! This part of the process lasted between the months of Spring and Summer 2016. All the interviews took place in Texas. For the most part, everything went well and according to planed. However, if something can go wrong, paraphrasing Murphy's law, sooner or later it will. For example, one of the interview took place in a location outside, and we didn’t have the correct sound equipment for it, so the sound became a piece of work for post-production. A dead cat microphone cover should always be included in the list of equipment for a documentary, because its nature of uncertainty even the most controlled types of interviews like this one where there wasn’t so much pressure like in other documentaries. In …show more content…
(2002) indicates “Interviews are a distinct form of social encounter. They differ from ordinary conversation and the more coercive process of interrogation by dint of the institutional framework in which they occur and the specific protocols or guidelines that structure them.” (p. 120) This statement couldn’t be any truer, in a regular conversation you can debate your own opinions, but the way it works in an interview, for your interviewed to trust you and share their thoughts with you, the formulation of questions must be well thought out. In Michael Moore’s 13 Rules for Making Documentary Films rule number 10 is “As much as possible, try to film only the people who disagree with you.” This couldn’t be more effective, if as a filmmaker I agreed to everything being said by all the interviewees, what would be the controversy? It really isn’t about my personal opinion, but it kind of is as long as I can justify any point of view either by stats or by contrasting the …show more content…
I know that most documentary films stay away from that, most don’t like narration, they just put up a couple of cards to explain what’s going on, but the audience is wondering, who is saying this to me? After I came to peace with the idea of using narration, I figured out a way of having that element without actually doing the narration myself. My voice is not really meant to be a voice over and even less in English, but I knew the accent was actually a plus for this documentary, so I asked a journalist friend of mine, who lives in New York, speaks perfect English and still has a little accent, to do the voice over of the documentary. Documentary Storytelling, Weight, J. (2012) describes it
Bridge to Freedom provides the historical documentary behind the events that served as the narrative for Selma. Instead of a drama, the viewers receive an actual documentary that shows the confrontations between the marchers and the government. Like Selma, it highlights the violence, the deaths, and the beatings, but also goes further back in time to show society’s treatment of African Americans.
This can make the topic more interesting especially when you can hear how excited the person is. In the video you could hear how excited she was about her job. Kari Bruwelheide sounded passionate about her job by, how happy enthusiastic she was and how In a paper you can not show any emotions unless you put in exclamation marks but even some times emotions can get loss or misunderstood in a paper, but in a video emotions can be heard clearly. Not only is it easier to hear she uses descriptive words that may not be known of a young reader so know people can clearly hear the right pronunciation. “The bones are like a time capsule. The will preserve the evidence for as long as that bones last. You have to know what to read them, but once you do, you can tell a whole bunch.”, stated Kari Bruwelheide. When you read this you may not be able to tell that she was excited or happy, but if you listen to the video you can tell that she was excited and happy. Forensic anthropology is not a good paper because it gives no facts and is not very interesting. The book Forensic Anthropology has no visuals or audios like a video might have. In forensic anthropology, only has facts about forensic anthropology there is no pictures or audio to be
When interviewing subjects for the film, Moore is often mocking or heavily interrogation people, he is very forceful with his approach to reaching the truth. It’s this influence on interviews that poses ethical questions about the role the filmmaker plays with in documentary film. When Moore is interviewing
...he interviewers were trained to ensure that interviews were conducted in a fully confidential and relaxed mode, free from any consequence to the respondent.
Over the past decade, historians have gained a new respect for the value of oral
According to Montgomery (2001), authenticity in talk can be determined by certain features. Firstly, spontaneous and uncontrived talk, also known as ‘fresh’ talk, is considered authentic. Talk which captures or presents the speaker’s experiences as well as projects his core self and values also fits the criteria of authenticity. In this paper, it follows that if the talk is deemed to be authentic by Montgomery’s definition, the persona portrayed by the speaker as he spe...
Interviewing is a procedure which recounts to a controlled situation in which one person asks a chain of questions to another person, relating to a specific field (Sommers-Flanagan and Sommers-Flanagan, 2008, p. 18). Interviewing skills are pivotal in making an interview more effective, as it is an overall judgement of candidate’s capabilities (Interviewing skills, 2002, p. 8). The process of Interviewing is divided into five phases i.e. Introduction, opening, body, closing, and termination (Sommers-Flanagan and Sommers-Flanagan, 2008, p. 144). According to Sommers-Flanagan and Sommers-Flanagan (2008, p. 145-154), introduction also named “initiation”, is the initial phase in which the interviewer explains his role, confidentiality policy, rules and regulations, and the purpose of the meeting. Also a person is put at ease and a short informal talk, develops a therapeutical relationship. Then the opening commences with the first question which is more about the person’s current concern (Sommers-Flanagan and Sommers-Flanagan, 2008, p. 154-160). The body or “exploration” phase is the main section of interview as major information regarding the ...
The main interviews and narrations were from were mostly projected by the people of Attawapiskat. This is credibly because this documentary was based off of their story and their education. So it is basically their point of view or their experience.
natural sounds, voices of character) and non-diegetic (which are added during editing and the characters in the film are unaware about it) are also used for rhetorical purpose (79). Thus, spoken word, sound effect, music and silent shots are considered as a pertinent text in documentary film rhetoric. Context of using the sound bears a significant role in generating the meaning. Emphasising on the spoken word as a meaning clarifier, Plantinga says that the ideological function or effect of photography and sound recording in the nonfiction film is varied and can be superficial or informative, veridical or misleading, depending on their specific use and context (81). Plantinga in his artcle What a Documentary Film is, After All deals with the question of defining documentary films and how to distinguish it from non-fictions and other videos. He categorises all classical documentries as Documentaries as Indexical Record (DIR) and Documentaries as Assertion (DA) accounts and shows how these accounts fail to satisfy traditional definition of documentary (105). He suggests an alternative account ‘asserted veridical representation’, representation that is ‘in case of implicitly or directly asserted propositions truthful; and in the case of images, sound or combinations thereof, a reliable guide to relevant elements of the scenes’
Distinctive voices of individuals is far much greater than just one’s spoken words; Isn’t it? Voices hold so much more meaning! It can be said to be one’s expression of their attitudes or perspective through body language or a series of actions. We can see that one’s unique opinion towards a subject is inevitably articulated through their unique expression which draws others into viewing the expressed perspective.
Throughout this investigation I will analyse two transcripts, these are: a job interview and a court room interview. The job interview was part of the, well know, television show ‘The Apprentice’ in a large office. During the show Ruth Badger is being interviewed by Claude (a business partner of Lord A. Sugar). Whereas, during the court room interview the setting seems to be in a localised court room, around a month after the incident. Mr Neill has seemingly caused a problem and been taken to court to find out the final verdict. Both events capture examinations occurring between two people one usually with more power than another. Within the job interview transcript, it clearly shows how interviews contain an authoritative figure; also, generally, many interviews in everyday life occur to be able to find out whether the company thinks the candidate is the correct person for the job. Unlike the interview case, where Claude is finding out if Ruth is suitable for the job, the court room case shows a formal and civilised attitude, wantin...
In this paper I used outside sources such as Hurley’s book, Gawthrop’s, Jacobson and Moakley articles to clarify and develop deeper thinking about Coles’ ideas in “The Tradition: Fact and Fiction,” with focal points being: human actuality, the interiority of a photograph, and the emotional impact of cropping. Throughout Coles’ essay he portrays a documentarian as one who creates their work to meet their own standards based on personal opinion, values, interest and their audience. He also shows, in correlation to the title, that there is no line between fact or fiction in documentary work; they are loosely mingled, overlapping and only seen separately from a biased standpoint.
An interview is a qualitative methodology that is commonly used with qualitative studies to collect data to explain the existence of phenomenon or occurrence of something or scenario. Oates (2006) posits that an interview involves individuals or a group of people in an expository conversation. Researchers use interviews to collect additional information- first-hand information about a particular topic- to supplement information gathered from secondary sources. Therefore, interviews are very important tools that help researchers to seek clarity by asking open-ended questions. The
Documentaries, as a type of media, is a film or television or radio program that provides a factual report on a particular subject. In my opinions, filmmakers of documentaries shouldn’t partial not include some facts or include more scenes on a specific sub-topic, instead, they should include everything in an objective way. By the above definition of documentary, it apparently shows there is a need for documentaries to be factually accurate. If a “documentary” is not factually accurate, it no longer would be a documentary. Alternatively, it is just a film or simply, it is a TV program.
This is a critique of" Roger And Me", a documentary by Michael Moore. This is a film about a city that at one time had a great economy. The working class people lived the American dream. The majority of people in this town worked at the large GM factory. The factory is what gave these people security in their middle working class home life. Life in the city of Flint was good until Roger Smith the CEO of GM decided to close the factory. This destroyed the city. Violent crime became the highest in the nation, businesses went bankrupt, people were evicted from their rented homes. There were no jobs and no opportunity. Life was so bad that Money magazine named Flint the worst place to live in the entire nation. When news of the factory closing first broke, Michael Moore a native of flint decided to search for Roger Smith and bring him to Flint.