Filmmakers
This filmmaker made a documentary about her search for her real father.
Who is Sarah Polley?
A “behind the scenes” sequence would likely be included in a film of this mode.
What is the reflexive mode?
This documentary includes reenactments that are meant to look like real home movie footage.
What is Stories We Tell?
Bill Nichols says documentary is not a reproduction of reality, but this other “r” word.
What is a representation?
Composition, lighting, color, resolution and frame rate are all aspects of this element of filmmaking.
This filmmaker was filmed at Camp Jened as a young person and later licensed that footage to make his documentary.
Who is Jim Lebrecht?
Interviews are the hallmark of this mode.
What is the participatory mode?
This film includes sequences apparently filmed without the director's knowledge.
What is Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One?
The state of being un-biased, neutral, and without an agenda.
What is objectivity?
Sounds that are part of the world of the film, like a radio playing in a shot, are these kinds of sounds.
What are diegetic sounds?
Doc scholar Brian Winston said this Scottish filmmaker was responsible for the "tradition of the victim" in documentary.
Who is John Grierson?
This mode, often seen in nature documentaries, is characterized by "voice of God" voice-over that provides a didactic argument.
What is the expository mode?
This documentary makes use of interview audio, while the interview video is never shown.
What is The Tiniest Place?
This aspect of documentary filmmaking describes how two films can explore the same subject/argument, but in different ways.
What is Voice?
What is ethos?
This filmmaker has been making observational documentaries since the 1960s and his last film was made when he was 93 years old.
Who is Frederick Wiseman?
This mode transforms documentary material in distinctive ways by breaking up time and space, stressing mood and tone over logic and continuity.
What is the poetic mode?
This feature length film we watched is a good example of observational filmmaking.
What is High School?
It’s been referred to as persuasive speech and the art of discourse. Bill Nichols says it’s present in all documentaries.
What is rhetoric?
This aspect of sound is written and performed rather than recorded as part of an interview.
What is narration?
These brothers were some of the biggest proponents of the Direct Cinema movement.
Who are Albert and David Maysles?
This mode of documentary is closely associated with the Direct Cinema movement.
What is the observational mode?
This feature film is the best example of poetic mode that we've watched.
What is małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore?
Making sure subjects in a film know what the film is, where it will be shown, and that they have the right to back out is this ethical concept.
What is informed consent?
When shooting a documentary interview, one must consider this “P” word: what other imagery will be edited with the interview.
What is pictorial context?