Dat Journalism
Elementary, my dear Documentary
Docu-Vision
Bro do you even Document
Miscellaneous
100
Who What When Why and How
What is the 5 essential questions
100
The voice or text that lets you know what is going on in the documentary.
What is the Narrator
100
The viewer get to follow along and the subject may not even notice
What is observational footage
100
Regardless of the topic documentaries will often get a bigger this. Just ask the makers of "Planet Earth"
What is audience
100
The title of the first documentary we watched in class
What is Exit Through the Gift Shop
200
People may sometimes call them "Titles" but news people know them as this
What is a Headline
200
Film clips, pictures, and old news footage, that end up being shown by the Director of a Documentary
What is Stock, historical, or archival footage
200
When the viewer sees this shot in the documentary, they know exactly where they are
What is a location shot
200
The viewers spends so much time with the subject they begin to care about what they do. Just like the director on the all McDonald's diet, for the viewer, the subject's isses become this
What is personal
200
The soundtrack for "Trinity and Beyond" was made by the symphony orcestra from this Russia city
What is Moscow
300
The feeling of trust in the journalism. Without it, sources don't talk and readers goto the next paper or website
What is credibility
300
The lead role in a documentary
What is the subject
300
When the director wants a really dramatic or tense moment, they usually use this "bullet time" camera effect
What is slow motion
300
Articles don't come with 3-D glasses. But documentaries can. You can read about a topic, or watch a news clip, but a good documentary will make you feel this
What is immersed / strongly connected
300
How much weight did the director of Super-Size Me gain during his 30 day experiment
What is 24 pounds
400
A journalist's favorite Amendment
What is the 1st Amendment
400
Journalists stay away from having this in their work, but a documentary has no problem with using the whole film to give the viewer this
What is the message
400
This camera shot lets you sit back and take it all in
What is a wide angle shot
400
Atomic bomb explosions while haunting dramatic symphony music is playing, or a wall with the subject's "art" on it being knocked down - these are examples of the director using an artistic scene to tell us this
What is message
400
The clip of the documentary "Bowling for Columbine" takes place mostly in what state?
What is Michigan
500
This might be the only rule photo journalists follow
What is the rule of thirds
500
How the documentary directors "talks" without saying a thing
What is artistic expression
500
Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon for the first time, government video records of nuclear bomb tests, the unknown protestor standing in the way of tanks in Tiananmen Square, and Antoine Dodson's first news interview telling people to "hide their kids"
What stock, archival and historical footage
500
Documentaries are never this, but journalism needs to be this all the time
What is unbiased
500
The creator of the famous Obama picture as well as the Andre the Giant "Obey" icon
Who is Shepard Fairy
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