Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

Documentaries...

What is the purpose???

•To record, reveal or preserve

•To persuade or promote

•To analyse or interrogate

•To express views or opinions

An analysis and exposition of a person or topic –For example Michael Moore exposes society to forms or political corruption

The participatory mode welcomes direct engagement between filmmaker and subject(s) - the filmmaker becomes part of the events being recorded

Participatory:

Reflexive:

To aid the audience in their understanding of the process of construction in film so that they could develop a sophisticated and critical attitude.

The film maker becomes directly involved with the issue being addressed; he becomes a character in the film; his impact on the events in the film are shown.

In which the film-maker acknowledges their presence –they are in front of the camera and give some narrative guidance

Expository:

Poetic:

The poetic mode of documentary film tends toward subjective interpretations of its subject(s). Light on exaggeration, documentaries in the poetic mode forsake traditional narrative content.

The expositional mode’s emphasis is on rhetorical content, and its goal of persuasion.

Narration is a distinct innovation of the expositional mode of documentary - it holds the weight of explaining and arguing a film’s rhetorical content. The expositional mode collects footage that functions to strengthen the spoken narrative.

In which an artistic narrative is constructed – sometimes the topic is more human interest rather than current affairs led.

Observational:

Being there as events unfold – these documentaries tend to follow a person or event and document their journey as it occurs. The camera remains as unobtrusive as possible, allowing the audience to make up their own mind.

“new, light equipment made possible an intimacy of observation new to documentary, and this involved sound as well as image” (Barnouw 1993). The move to lighter 16mm equipment and shoulder mounted cameras allowed documentarians to leave the anchored point of the tripod.

Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi