Documentary film

When you look at movies they depict what people want to see. Some want to see tear jerker movies, or what some would call “girly movies. Some want to watch movies that have strong women roles likes, “Charlies Angels”. Some want to watch horror movies like, “Texas Change Saw Massacre”. Now the majority of people want to watch movies with guns, fast cars, sexy women or sexy men and violence. Within these type of movies there is always drugs or sex involved. When you get to these type of movies…

2015 film Movie Mind Machine. Directed by Maureen Bharoocha and written by Eric Cunningham. Here lays a film which serves viewers a little bit of satire, culture, and some questionable but funny science. The plot of a Movie Mind Machine (a machine that will erase one’s memory of a film so that they can re-experience it for the first time) is one so unique it carries the film through. Centered on Matt and Ron who built this machine and use it for enjoyment and dangerous experimentation, the film…

longer” and the “not yet,” I would like to turn to the other two films and to the notion of the ordinary, which, along with the virtual, is central to contemporary documentaries. Excavating the Ordinary Although Céu’s characters are unique, and in a sense extraordinary, we can also think of Sérgio Borges’s film as an immersion into the ordinary world of everyday life, a world in which the flow of time barely has any narrative momentum. The film adjusts its rhythm to the rhythms of ordinary time.…

hopes of warning people that sexual assault can happen to anyone. The film 's goal is to prevent sexual assault by enlightening people, knowledge is power. Working together we can end sexual assault. On Febuary 3rd, 2016 Tom Bondarenko JR was sexual assaulted at gunpoint by two men. Feeling empty and unsatisfied after a failed police investigation to catch the criminals, he decided the way to find peace is to make a documentary…

Scholar R.J. Raack is for “film as history” by arguing that the traditional written history is too narrow to focus on the complexity of it. Raack states that film is the most appropriate medium for because, “Only film can provide an adequate "empathetic reconstruction to convey how historical people witnessed, understood, and lived their lives." Only film can "recover all the past 's liveliness” (1176). Furthermore, he believes this because of film’s ability to juxtapose images and sound and the…

Isabela Esteves Romazini 10/19/15 2:20 PM The documentary was excellent. I was fascinated by how all of our senses are intertwined and they work together as one and not individually. The part of the video with the "ba" vs "fa" sound experiment was very cool. I watched it several times and even though I knew the sound was "ba" all the time, when I looked at the movements of the man lips I heard "fa". Very interesting how our brains interpret the senses. The interview with a woman with synesthesia…

different to what appears on screen. In cinema, the sounds of monsters or futuristic technology, for instance, have been created using every from envelopes to breezeblocks and biplane motors. It’s not just for fictional TV or movies either. In a radio documentary, The Sound of Sports, Dennis Baxter describes how sounds are added to sporting events, from rowing to athletics. In horse racing, for example, it would be impossible to lay microphones around an entire course, so a pre-recorded track is…

perception –what and how we see and hear all help create our experiences. Throughout the ages, storytelling been an art practiced by many and has taken several forms in order to appeal to these senses through such media as books, paintings, music, and film. When filmmaking first became an artistic medium capable of producing compelling stories, it took over one hundred years to reach the point technological advances the industry has reached today. It has expanded vastly to quickly become the…

The documentary ‘Zombie: Haiti’s Longstanding Tradition’ (Zombie: Haiti’s Longstanding Tradition, 2005) contained information regarding the original Haitian version of Zombies and how they are created. Some other things also featured in this film include how “zombie powder” is made, how people are brought back from the brink of death, and how people are forced to become these “zombies” so that people may use them as slaves. The idea of zombies has been a part of our world since the 8th century.…

The documentary ‘Central Park Five’ was told in such a captivating, vivid way, which really allows the viewer to feel the emotional realism and angst in the story. It was so devastating to watch these young men go through this time distressing time of injustice. In the 1980’s there were many issues present within society surrounding race and economic status, which brought a tremendous amount of violent crime. In the documentary you were given an insiders view of the life each of these boys lived…