Documentary film

been interested in the visual arts for a long time. I have worked on various animations in the past but something I have just come across that I love is cinematography. I was the cinematographer for a documentary recently and I captured the b-roll footage to put throughout the movie. The documentary was a group project that I did for a video production class. The footage I got was meant to be small interesting clips to cut into an interview. I have provided an edited version of my footage that…

climate fiction has come into fruition ever since scientist have brought to our attention the occurrence of a human induced climate change. Climate fiction has been a hard film category to define, and an even harder genre to critique. A historical analysis of climate fiction is legitimate though the time period climate fiction in film covers is only 40 years. Its legitimacy spurs from climate fiction being a public response to a problem and also the fact that it drives others to make a societal…

The two documentaries ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ by Michael Moore and ‘Manufacturing Dissent’ by Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine have a similar theme, but are different in many ways. The reasons why these films are not alike is because of the different directors; there is a Canadian director and an American director which makes the film styles different from each other. ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ uses propaganda to try and convince the viewers that they are right. These documentaries were very hard to follow for…

While walking into the Gershwin Theater in New York City, people flow past quickly going to their seats to wait for the play to begin. As the lights dim in the large room, many people erupt into loud cheers and claps of excitement. The play begins with a soft string instrument, and is joined by the melodious sound of drums, flutes, and trumpets. The actors appear on stage swiftly as the life of the Wicked Witch of the West is portrayed on the slanted platform in front. Theater has allowed people…

1) This film can partially be viewed as a study of humankind. What new discoveries were the scientists who work at the caves making? How were they able to speculate about the possible lives that the original painters might have lived? The chauvet cave was founded by the three local cave hunters which is one of the most significant prehistory of art. The painting in the cave are the oldest painting in the world (32,000 years) as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. Through the…

Successful Triumph of the Will up the Stairs of Global Recognition The increase of equipment quality and availability of facilities nowadays has noticeably aided film makers produce more successful films without requiring much effort, however it wasn’t the case back in the day. In 1935, Leni Riefenstahl produced Triumph of the Will, a documentary which got universal recognition and appreciation. Triumph of the Will revolves around the 1934 Nazi party in Nuremberg and portrays all the important…

The protagonists Watanabe and Locke both undergo personal transformations in their respective films, Ikiru and The Passenger, in search of their own meaning of life. Though Watanabe and Locke are both undergoing personal transformations, the philosophical significance of their experiences differs. When the film introduces Watanabe the audience learns he has spent over twenty-five years of his life as a bureaucrat dedicating his time to City Hall. Watanabe has never missed a single day of work;…

Evaluative Essay : Criticism of a Film Human trafficking is the ownership of people with the end goal of drawing in them in subjugation and prostitution through the method for power and compulsion. Sort is vigorously reflected inside the Bilheimer film , Not My Life. Crucial criteria improvement as starting desire thought to have been a noisy weep for underserved consideration without enough significant subplot meat of instating issue as opposed to being seen as issue. 2004s University of…

start of XX century cinematography was only to bring joy and hilarity to hundreds of people. Now it is made to do something else like educating by films. Learning a new foreign language by watching untranslated film or TV series is a really popular way. The words used in movies are mostly the words use often by the native speakers. So a student watching a film, TV series has a chance to hear how native speakers of this language speak, what kind of words they use. Thanks to movies and television…

Could you imagine your favorite childhood movie is a lie? Most people remember that The Disney film Pocahontas was about the Native American young girl with long brown hair named Pocahontas who fell in love with an English settler named John Smith. However, the film was ultimately based off of the events in Jamestown, Virginia. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in the Americas and is known to be one of the biggest struggles known to man. Nevertheless, it was the spark that ignited…