The definition of documentary varies between the personal opinions of filmmakers and critics. The term was first devised in 1926 by “The Moviegoer” a.k.a. John Grierson, a Scottish filmmaker and film critic when describing the film Moana as having “documentary value”. Grierson defined the term documentary as “creative treatment of reality”. His approach to documentary film was that the “original” actor and scene are superior to those that are fictitious. Another film critic, Pare Lorentz described the term documentary as “a factual film which is dramatic”, a viewpoint parallel to that of Grierson’s. A dissimilar stance on documentary came from Dziga Vertov, a Soviet filmmaker who described the term as “life as it is”. All three perspectives …show more content…
Moore personifies his documentary by using humour, music and witty commentary to enrich its reality. Furthermore, Moore presses on the reality by the visual style of the film. An example of this is during the scene of the Twin Towers’ crash, when there was a moment where the camera filmed the sky as the ashes from the Towers were falling. Visually, it was beautiful, but the use of slow-motion and of the sorrowful reactions of the surrounding community, made the scene (which, in reality, was genuinely heart-breaking) more dramatic. Another way Moore is creative with reality is during the scene where Iraq is shown as a serene nation, whose people are happy and fulfilled, and then suddenly, it was completely demolished by the U.S. invasion. Factually, that is true, to a certain extent. Nonetheless, the audience knows that Saddam Hussein was a threat to his own nation, which makes the depiction of the first part of the scene in Iraq questionable. More importantly, Moore uses the reality he chooses to display to gain people’s sympathies, which at times was contradictory and
Having a very effective way to get his point across both to the audience and the interviewees. Does this by dressing like any average everyday citizen you’d see on the streets. Another way Moore goes about having an effective way of using rhetoric is by appealing to logos. Going about this in such a way that he can back up his logic with true facts about shootings and gun sales. Finally, to tie it all together he went about a way of getting to peoples feeling within the interview and audience in ways to touch the person. One way he showed this was by attacking interviewees with question that it took them out of there comfort zone or to where he was able to get more information. Michael Moore having a very effective way of getting his point across to both the audience and the people in which he interviewed throughout the
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.
As documentary by its very nature introduces itself as factual, concerns exist as to where the boundary between the truth of subject and the fiction produced by its creator emerges. As anything that has been edited has by definition removed certain aspects and enhanced others, there must be at best an innocent naturally occurring bias formed from individual perception, and at worst purposefully manipulated misinformation. Through researching various sources, I intend to discover the difference (if any) between these two methods making factually based programmes, to determine any variables that lie in the ‘grey area’ between the two extremes, and to ascertain the diverse forms of conduct in which truth (and in turn documentary) can be presented to an audience, and to what effect?
But Moore's movie isn't just an anti-war movie. Part of the movie is an attempt to question and expose the political images being projected. This starts off with a dreamy sequence of Al Gore celebrating victory in Florida that, Moore says, was manipulated by Fox television into a Bush vict...
Which is hard to accept without feeling slightly contradicted by Moores own American nationality. Moore talks briefly about America’s history with war. He shows the damage that America has inflicted on countries through the years with graphic images of ‘5000 dead Chilliens’ and the three billion pound given to Osama Bin Laden and expert training and how that then led to the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. He also says of how on the day of the Columbine shooting the ‘President bombed another country we couldn’t pronounce’. This documentary is definitely an attack on America, there is no doubt that they are the enemy, at least for the films running time of 120 minutes.
The Bolshevik Revolution was a defining turning point in Russian history. This overall revolution consisted of two individual revolutions in 1917 which resulted in the overthrow of the Tsarist government and the formation of a socialist society led by Vladimir Lenin’s radical Bolsheviks. For a moment with such enormous weight like the Bolshevik Revolution, there will be various interpretations on the true results of that moment and the meaning and value of these results. The film Man with a Movie Camera deals with the results of the Bolshevik Revolution and the early Soviet Society it birthed as it utilizes footage of one day in this early Soviet Union, thus making it worthy of examination. In the film Man With a Movie Camera, Vertov impressively
Human beings are fascinated by heroes. Joseph Campbell believes that throughout history heroes have followed a hero’s journey model or monomyth. This means that there are common patterns that can be found in many hero stories. Time after time, people have read about heroes leaving the ordinary world to complete the quest that will change mankind and better the hero. While many tasks and challenges may lie in the hero’s way they always return victorious. The Hero serves a dual purpose. Heroes are smart, brave and resilient. They show the world what is possible through hard work and perseverance. Heroes also reflect the fears and limitations that people are faced with. Heros inspires people to be the best versions of themselves. Chihiro the main character in Hayao Miyazaki’s film Spiri
As a viewer, the documentary’s intention to inform is more completely fulfilled by research conducted beyond the scope of the camera lens. Had I never written this paper, for instance, the reason for all the violence embedded within the subject matter would remain as enigmatic as the documentary itself.
In the 21st centuries take on the fairytale Rapunzel, the movie “Tangled” depicts the troubled life of an adolescent that is raised by a woman whom is not her mother. Rapunzel is abducted from her crib as an infant by an evil witch, Gothel, for the sole purpose of using her magical hair to enhance her beauty to make her young again. As an eager Rapunzel ages, she soon wants to be set free into a world that she has yet to see.
Michael Moore brilliantly manipulates the conventions of film to make the audience see and feel these political and moral issues the way he does. Moore, an outspoken loather of the President has shaped his film like a cinematic bullet, with character assassination as his priority. “Fahrenheit 9/11” shows a series of solemn images and sound bites, arranged as a critical history of the President’s actions since he took office, including the abuse of power and use of fear tactics that have been employed for his monetary and narcissistic gains. Regardless of personal political leanings, “Fahrenheit 9/11” is an amazing accomplishment of individual expression and anti-government aggression.
Society is built of many different cultures which is used to identify a person with their customs, moral beliefs, and behavioral patterns. Culture is a significant root to society. Traditions that are passed down from generations to generations is accustomed from Cultures. The accuracy of Disney’s animated movie Moana of the Polynesian culture and traditions was extensively research by John Musker and Ron Clements throughout the native tribes in Polynesia, which displays throughout the movie on its accuracy on fine details such as character design, songs/dances, prints, resource gathering, and many more examples. Disney effectively uses rhetorical appeals of doxa, logos, kairos, and pathos that provides their audience knowledge on the Polynesian
The story begins when they moved in to the castle. Coraline´s parents already had their work and had to write a book catalog for a garden store. Coraline seemed to be bored so she told her mother she was but instead of telling her what to do she shouted to her to go and look for something to herself. She went to her father who was also working on the book catalog and told him. He told her to explore the castle and look how many windows and door it had.
Traditional ideations of film and documentaries have been to create scripts that are structures to fulfill a set idea. The challenge with scripting an idea is that the script writer(s) have a subjective view of the documentary. The vastness of documenting a situation is restricted by the script making it impossible for a documentary film to capture objective realism in their work.
This movie came out in 2003 meaning that it was being written and filmed soon after 9/11 and the start of the war on terror and these aspects can be seen in underlying qualities throughout the movie. The plot of the movie revolves around
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