Chapters

Question 1

List the 4 interacting frameworks/forces that go into the making, formation, and evolution of films.

Answer 1

Institution
Practitioners (filmmakers)
Texts (films)
Audiences (assumptions, expectations, evidence…)

Question 2

What is a key ‘definition’ or the documentary form that the text offers?

Answer 2

I speak about them to you.

Question 3

What is meant by ‘voice’?

Answer 3

how the reasoning, analysis, feelings, and values in a documentary become conveyed to us.

Question 4

What are the means by which a filmmaker expresses his/her voice?

Answer 4

1 - cut, edit, juxtapose
2 - shot composition
3 - Sound (synchronous or otherwise)
4 - Chronology
5 - Footage selection (archive, photographs, etc)
6 - Modes of representation (expository, reflexive, performative, poetic, etc)

Question 5

What are three main forms of voice that prevail in the docu form?

Answer 5

Rhetorical
Narrative
Poetic

Question 6

What are the five departments of the Rhetorical doc form?

Answer 6

1. Invention (proofs)
2. Arrangement
3. Style
4. Memory
5. Delivery

Question 7

What are two types of evidence Aristotle refers to?

Answer 7

inartistic and nonartificial (facts of the matter)

artistic and artificial proofs (appeal to emotion)

Question 8

What are three types of artistic/artificial rhetorical techniques? (3 c’s, or EPL)

Answer 8

• Credible, ethical proof (ethos)
• Compelling, emotional proof (pathos)
• Convincing, demonstrative proof (logos)

Question 9

What is the ‘triangle of communication’ that filmmakers must keep in mind?

Answer 9

the filmmaker, the film itself, and the viewer.

Question 10

What sort of topics to documentary films typically address?

Answer 10

contested, debated ideas/issues.

Question 11

What are three ‘divisions’ of the rhetorical doc?

Answer 11

• deliberative (what to do)
• judicial and historical (what re-ally happened)
• commemorative/critical (what are they really like)