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Modes of Documentary and Theoretical Approaches to Documentary Film Making

Thursday 5th February 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• YOU WILL gain a better understanding of what is expected of your for this section of the exam and what you are assessed against.

• The lesson will introduce and establish each of the Modes you need to be familiar with.

• Review the learning.

AO1 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the film industry.

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films and when evaluating their own creative projects to show how meanings and responses are generated.

FM4 – Section B

YOU MUST write a PEA Paragraph based on the sequence we watched last lesson to determine HOW we have been manipulated by the film makers.

YOU SHOULD support your POINT with EVIDENCE (Verbal, Non-Verbal, Technical) from the scene.

Extension – YOU COULD give more than one example to support your point.

Task 1) - 4 minutes

FEEDBACK

Modes of Documentary

Modes of Documentary

Task 2) - 5 minutes

YOU MUST visit the Section B Blog Page and make notes/identify features associated to EACH of the 4 Modes we have just gone through.

Extension – YOU COULD investigate the other modes – Reflexive and Poetic – and establish if there is any cross over between these modes and the modes we will be covering.

FEEDBACK

Mini-Plenary

YOU MUST write down a characteristic that defines EACH mode of documentary we have just covered and state WHO and the YEAR in which the modes were devised.

The Bridge (2006 – Dir. Eric Steel)

'The Bridge' Trailer

• Individual characters and events remain undeveloped, in favor of creating a particular mood or tone.

• Stresses the emotional aspect of the World being recorded.

Task 3) - 5 minutes

YOU MUST watch the trailer and consider:

•WHAT the mood and tone of this text is going to be?•WHAT emotions are going to occur amongst the viewers?

Poetic Mode – Nichols (2001)

FEEDBACK

What mode is going to be most effective in presenting the spectator with “the real”?

What have you learnt?

YOU MUST produce a x2 Question Quiz to ask the person next to you on WHAT we have covered in the lesson today regarding the Modes of Documentary.

Extension – YOU COULD provide an example of where the “real” is challenged in this genre of film making.

Homework

Revise for a Quiz on the Topic areas/Approaches we have covered so far for the Section.