Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Documentary Film Movement, Telephoto Lens, Raw Footage
15 Apr 2016
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Week 18 introduction to documentary and observational. Lonely boy (kroiter and koenig, canada, 1962, b/w) Reality tv ranges into the documentary range survivor (part game show and part documentary) the kardashians. Documentaries docere (lation) to teach: documentary a lesson or a warning, first applied to film by john grierson. Lead the documentary film movement in uk in 1930s. Left britain in 1939 to become a commissioner of the. Documentary is the creative treatment of reality. Supports to present factual information about the world: propaganda, approach information. How documentaries only have a pre-tense of objectivity. They are re-presentations and constructions of reality: the camera is not innocent or neutral (not the filmmaker either) The filmmaker controls the representations through the choices she/he makes: choices about. How the raw footage is organized into a coherent formal system (sound and image) Sarris: all films are documents of someone, something, sometime, someplace. Subject matter: most basic convention of documentaries deals with fact vs. fiction.
