Title:Participatory Mode –Pros & Cons in (re)presenting the “real”

Date

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section B Specialist Study 2: Spectatorship Topics – Spectatorship

and Documentary

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.• YOU WILL weigh up the pros and

cons of this mode of documentary film making based on your prior knowledge of the text.

• YOU WILL establish how a key scene conforms to an important ideology YOU MUST learn for the exam.

• Review the learning.

AO1

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together and

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films.

Starter –Re-cap Prior Learning

Complete the Entrance Activity!

FEEDBACK

FM4 – Section BEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS

Exam Board Expectations HERE

FM4 – Section B

Using the handout provided and the notes made during the screening, YOU MUST establish x3 pros and x3 consassociated to the Participatory Mode of Documentary film-making.

E.g. Pro = Active engagement with the subject matter – or is this a con?

Pair Up – YOU SHOULD then compare your findings with the person next to you.

Task 1)

FEEDBACK

FM4 – Section B

Task 2)

Dziga Vertov Ideology:

“My mission is the creation of a new perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way a World unknown to you”

You are going to watch 2 key scenes from the text to establish HOW our perception of this World is changed by the views of others and the participation/immersion of Morgan Spurlock.

YOU SHOULD complete the handout provided and be prepared to share your views with the rest of the class.

FEEDBACK

FM4 – Section B

Task 3) –Conclusion Task

Performative mode –

Bill Nichols (2001) stated that documentary “is our port entry to the political” –

Does Spurlocks performance in the documentary interfere with the mission or add to it?

YOU MUST write down your opinions/views and support this with one example from the text.

FEEDBACK

What have you learnt?

Write down x3 things you have learnt in the lesson today.

Homework

YOU MUST research an example of a documentary that YOU feel is most effective in presenting the real OR challenges this view.

Present your findings on 2-sides of your exercise book.

Due:

Next Lesson – L15