Documentary film

A post-interview reflection is anticipated to be informal, more like an email than an essay. For some applicants, this lack of limitation can be freeing. For others, it can cause extensive anxiety, particularly in the pressing aftermath of an already nerve-racking interview. To lessen that anxiety, you can always look back and consider just a few key points that will ensure a better interview in the next point in time. Within the interview, while discussing your interests and aspirations, you…

The featured documentary ‘Side by Side’ was an enjoyable, informative documentary that discussed the history of the film industries use of emulsion film and the cautionary switch-over to the new digital movie format. Beginning in the late 1800’s with continued development of emulsion roll film by Eastman and the pioneering photography work of Edweard Muybridge and Louis Le Prince the advent of capturing and projecting moving images was at hand. The documentary covers the important developments…

subcategory a film belongs to (based on various personal factors), a film categorized as one of higher quality and values will affect the way the audience will perceive it. In other words: a serious, informative documentary that addresses issues of society will have more credibility and impact than a rather entertaining genre such as Reality TV for example (Hill, 2007: p.58). But the operation of arranging…

In Documentaries, Directors often use modes of persuasion to convince the viewer of an idea. In the Salesman, the director uses the mode of Pathos to have the viewer experience emotions that wouldn’t typically be associated with a traveling salesman. Certain film techniques like the use of close up shots help create this emotional appeal. Without emotions, this film would be a boring film about traveling salesman. I think the empathy evoked by the director is critical in staying true to the…

Film in our world today is something we use to portray our imagination. We use films to put ourselves in dangerous and thrilling scenarios that we would never really want to be in. Why do people like to watch horror movies if they get scared? People like feeling like they are actually in the movie entering that dark, creepy room with the squeaky floorboards and the terrifying silhouettes. My major happens to be Film Making and Television Production and I chose this career because I enjoy the…

1) The title of this documentary is Miss Representation. What is the significance of the title? In other words, what argument about women in the media is the documentary making? Identify and then discuss five pieces of "evidence" that are presented in the documentary to support the argument. The title Miss Representation is significant because the documentary focuses on how women are portrayed in the media and society. The irony in the title is that how the media portrays women as these weak,…

I decided to do my documentary review on the movie “Hoop Dreams”, a 1994 American documentary film directed by Steve James. Hoop Dreams focuses on the daily lives Arthur Agee, William Gates and their families. These families are usually invisible in the mass media but this movie brings their situation to light. I am going to give you a quick synopsis of the movie Hoop Dreams, expand on how this movie uses the rhetorical appeals, identify what claim is being made, provide you with some bias I…

a shopkeeper to an amateur film maker and finally to a known street artist. The film makes the audience think about the authenticity of art, the purpose of street art and the process of becoming an artist. The most important argument, however, is that street art is not about the money. Throughout the film, we follow various street artists, from Space Invader to Shepard Fairey, and finally to Banksy. We are also introduced to Mr. Brainwash, or Thierry Guetta. In the film, one of the most…

would stick to the reflexive mode as the central mode for Forbidden Lies$ because, the other Nichols’ mode of documentaries are not suitable to represent a documentary like Forbidden Lie$. But, I would include participatory mode as a sub-mode to compliment the reflexive mode in this documentary. Reflexive documentary is when a filmmaker constructs the representation of reality in a documentary and allow the viewers to question the actuality of the representation. Reflexive mode is the best mode…

When I watched this documentary, The Chernobyl Disaster, through a formal lense, the producer organized this documentary in chronological order. The medium in which this non-live performance was made is a digital narrative and was an 11 minute documentary on YouTube. The colors of this film were cool tone, mostly black and white photos, and a lot of grays and dark blue. These colors, to me, are associated with sadness. For example, dark gloomy days are associated with gray stormy rain clouds.…