Documentry

Question 1

What are the types of documentaries?

Answer 1

Poetic, expository, participatory, observational, reflexive, performative

Question 2

What is Poetic mode?

Answer 2

Linear continuity in favor of mood, tone, or the juxtaposition of imagery. Little to no narrative

Question 3

What is expository mode?

Answer 3

Set up a specific point of view or argument .

Collecting and editing footage to support the argument

Question 4

What it is participatory mode?

Answer 4

Interaction between the documentarian and the subject.

Film makers version of the truth as “the truth”

Question 5

What is observational mode?

Answer 5

Attempt to discover the ultimate truth of their subject by acting as a fly on the wall

Question 6

What is reflexive?

Answer 6

Focuses on the relationship between the film maker and the audience
Behind the scene style footage of the entire film production processes

Question 7

What is performative mode?

Answer 7

Focus on the film makers involvement with their subject using their experience
Exploring larger subjective truths about politics, history or groups of people

Question 8

Who is Longinotto?

Answer 8

A British director who works in observational documentary
Primary focus on women
Uniquely personal and focuses on society’s outsiders

Question 9

Crack cocaine scene

Answer 9

Captions (kapadias style)
Voice over of Blake
Close up on Amy
Eden project- with captions
Paparazzi shots- pleonastic

Question 10

Back to Black scene

Answer 10

Captions (kapadia)
Interview with Mark Ronson
Orchestration enhances the melody
“It’s a bit upsetting at the end”
Medium close up on Amy

Question 11

Amy’s death scene

Answer 11

Aerial location shot- verisimilitude 
Juliette interview- talking head
Freeze frames and slow motion
Bodyguard talking about how he found her
Shots of fans at a private funeral
Ends with Valerie and montage