A documentary is a non - fiction film in where filmmakers are documenting an individual, a place or a thing in order to represent an aspect of the world. That’s what makes a documentary film unique because they are not producing a fictional world, but an insight of reality in which we tend to dismiss.
Documentary films use a mixture of techniques to entertain and convince the audience that the images that are shown in the documentary are true. In order to make documentaries, there are four different methods are applied: institutional, practitioners, text, and audience.
Institutional framework is when organizations and institutions impose what types of documentary should be created. At the same it gives them the cue if a given documentary can be considered as a documentary. “Harvest of Shame” falls in this category. CBS network sent Edward Murrow, a television reporter to investigate how life of a migrant worker was in the 1960’s. Foremost, they are sponsoring migrant workers by humanized them by giving chance to utilize their voice. Second, exhibit how the sales of agricultural produce affects farm workers and how they struggle to survive. Lastly, they distribute the main issue of poverty that is rising in America.
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This group of individuals goes to film festivals and talk with other filmmakers to contribute info, for example journals, articles and interviews. “13TH” by Ave DuVerna is a great example she interviewed a range of expert’s politicians, activists and citizens throughout the film. Like other professionals, they all speak a common language, and share distinct and common problems. In the case of DuVerna she argues how American criminal justice systems effecting minority ethnic groups and how do we create a change to our justice
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.
Recommended by Jennifer, I went to go see the documentary, Bending the Arc, presented by UGA division of Partners in Health. Before the movie started, we the audience got an honor to talk (via SKype) to Dr. Joia Mukherjee about her field of work, her passion, her membership with Partners in Health, and just her life in general. The incredible yet heartbreaking story of Dr. Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, and Jim Yong Kim and their journey with Partners in Health begins with the snap shots of Haiti in ruins and the terrible conditions the natives were facing due to lack of basic healthcare. It all begin with the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 where the world leaders came together and decided to have health care for all, starting with the poorest.
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?
Through the analysis of the films, The Pianist, Pleasantville, Crash, American History X and Cry Freedom, the dynamics within societies are shown. These dynamics can be viewed according to anthropology, sociology and psychology. Each film emphasizes the effect social change. The themes displayed in every film including discrimination, family structure and breaking social barriers are all a part of social change. Furthermore, social change displayed in American History X, the Pianist, Cry Freedom, Pleasantville and Crash all deals with revolution and movement towards change.
This documentary as nominated for the Best Feature Documentary Academy Award. It showed the world the actual crimes and events that were happening in society that otherwise would have been overlooked after the initial shock. The moral, values and importance of these events being spread by mass communication can lead to awareness and hopefully avoidance of familiar events in the
The documentary is structured in a way that presents the factual information first, and uses
Analysis Of Two Documentaries I will be analysing two very different types of documentary, 'Dogtown and the Z-Boys', which takes the role of being a full length movie type documentary, and 'Teenage Transsexuals' which was recently shown on Channel 4. 'Dogtown and the Z-Boys' is a documentary which takes a look at the transformation of surfing into skateboarding. The film follows the evolution of skating through it's heyday in the 70's, to it's decline in the 80's, and then back upto it's popular return in the 90's. It also follows the Zephyr team, a high profile surf/skate club which revolutionised the skating industry right upto the present day.
Documentary has been heavily associated as a representation of the truth and reality due to its absence of fictional elements and control by the filmmaker (Chapman, 2009). It aims to entice the audience perception of the information presented as fundamental and legitimate (Beattie, 2004). With today's technology, the question of manipulated facts and proclaimed evidences presented in documentaries has heightened concerns in providing the audience with the truth and the real. Hence, with reference to the documentary on "Biggie and Tupac" (2002) directed by Nick Broomfield, we will explore how the documentary has managed to capture the real in terms of structure, style and modes of documentary.
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
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.
... history and the thoughts they evoke for Marker. It goes beyond documentary to create an essay-film.
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
In the film Shame, Brandon represents a successful middle class man working in Manhattan, but is constantly trapped within his addiction to sex and compulsive thoughts to oppress the dirty thoughts when his sister Sissy comes into his life. How does Brandon’s sister Sissy reverse the predator and victim role on a psychological perspective? And what sexual subjectivities does Sissy impose on Brandon that ultimately drives the monstrosity as sexual pathology?
The ideation of objectivity remains a highly debatable subject among philosophical elites. Some philosophers may argue that human’s understanding of objectivity is subject to the scope of understanding of the term and exposure (Livingstone & Plantinga 10). When the term objectivity is entwined with realism, it yields a complex ideation that remains highly debatable and less agreeable among erudite authors (Livingstone & Plantinga 23). However, to understand and appreciate the concept of realism and objectivity in film, it becomes critical to adopt a definite definition. First, the term reality in film is used to describe concepts that are visible in nature as experienced on a daily life by one or more individuals (Livingstone & Plantinga 24). The term objectivity in this case is used to define a set of ideations or perspectives that are incorporated in the film (Livingstone & Plantinga 24). Documentaries are used to create a form of reality, an experience or ideation of the person or group of person experiencing an event or phenomenon. The argument in this analysis is that it is impossible for documentary films to objectively capture reality.