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  1. 1What are the 3 functions of Documentary Modes?1. Establish a loose framework within which individuals may work
    2. Set up conventions that a given film may adopt
    3. Provide specific expectations viewers anticipate having been fulfilled
  2. 2What are the 6 Documentary MODES?Poetic, Expository, Observational, Participatory, Reflexive, Performative
  3. 3What is Evidentiary Editing, and in what documentary mode does this practice usually occur?Editing that provides historical or thematic links between images
    Expository Mode
  4. 4What documentary mode recalls the work of the Italian Neo-realists?Observational Documentary
  5. 5Which documentary mode addressed issues of realism, and is considered the most Brechtian of documentary modes?Reflexive Mode
  6. 6Which documentary mode places emphasis on the subjective qualities of experience, and fosters the free combination of the actual and imagined?Performative
  7. 7What are the First Principles of Documentary, according to Greirson?1. Cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form.
    2. Original (or native) actor and the original (or native) scene are better guides to a screen interpretation of the modern world
    3. Materials and the stories thus taken from the raw can be finer than the acted article
  8. 8What are the First Principles of Documentary according to Flaherty?1. It must master its material on the spot and come in intimacy to ordering it
    2. It must follow him in his distinction between description and drama
    3. You are liable to abandon the story form and seek a matter and method more satisfactory to the mind and spirit of the time
  9. 9Provide 2 disctinctions of the Symphonic Form1. Concerned with the orchestration of movement
    2. Object presented as the integration of many activities
  10. 10What is a Documentary?A documentary film purports to present factual information about the world outside the film
  11. 11What is Cinema Verite as a style documentary?Style of documentary filmmaking combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camera work, staged set-ups and the use of the camera to provoke subject
  12. 12What is the main difference between cinema verite and direct cinema?Aim of cinema verite was to explore reaction between camera and subject, not to deny camera's existence entirely
  13. 13What are the 3 forms of Documentary filmmaking?1. Narrative Form
    2. Categorical Form
    3. Rhetorical Form
  14. 14The biggest challenge for categorical form is that it risks boring the spectator. What are 3 ways in which documentary filmmakers can maintain the interest of its spectators?1. Introduce variations and thereby make the audience adjust their expectations
    2. Patterned use of film techniques
    3. Blending other kinds of form or introducing small-scale narratives
  15. 15What are the four basic attributes of Rhetorical Form?1. Addressed the viewer openly, trying to move him/her to a new intellectual conviction, to a new emotional attitude, or to action.
    2. Subject of the film will not be an issue of scientific truth but a matter of opinion, toward which a person may take a number of equally plausible attitudes.
    3. If the conclusion cannot be proven beyond question, the filmmaker often will appeal to our emotions rather than presenting only factual evidence.
    4. The film will often attempt to persuade the viewer to make a choice that will have an effect on his or her every day life
  16. 16What are the three types of arguments used in film?1. Arguments from the source
    2. Subject-centered Arguments
    3. Viewer-centered Arguments
  17. 17What is a standard descrption of rhetorical form?Begins with an introduction of the situation, goes on to a discussion of the relevant facts, then presents proof that a given solution fits those facts and ends with an epilogue that summarises what has come before
  18. 18What is the difference in function between Categorical and Rhetorical inform?The purpose of categorical form is to inform. Rhetorical form attempts to convey a particular idea, and persuade the viewer to think a certain way.
  19. 19What are the reasons for the 'crisis in representation' in postmodern documentary film?1. End of colonial rule and emergence of capitalism brought about the realisation that cultural identity is not eternally fixed but something that has to be regularly renegotitated
    2. Recognition that scientific inquiry consists of hypothesiis testing rather than the search for eternal truths caused some philosophers of science to argue that the progress of scientific knowledge can be understood as a dialectic process. Among factors directly contributing to an undermining of traditional assumptions are the concepts of cultural relativism, acceptanace of the idea that reality is a social construction and the impact of academic Marxism
    3. Development of literary or "new" journalism, non-fiction novels, docudramas and other dentres blurred distinction between fiction and non-fiction.
  20. 20Francois Verster's The Dream of Shahrazad is considered a 'manifold' film. What are the four main elements of the film's narrative?1. Collective consciousness composed of all individual fantasies of all the film's characters and extras
    2. International concert featuring music, songs and tales of a new Arabian generation
    3. Ancient infinity of 1001 Nights themselves dissolving and reemerging throughout history
    3. Enframed dream that is cinematic reality, presenting sound, word and image in increasingly unpredictable ways
  21. 21What are the three types of footage used in the twin crescendos of the 2nd and 4th movement in Verster's Dream of Shahrazad?1. Tense concert performance (Turkish Youth Orchestra, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul)
    2. Wild, concatenated video recorded by news media and protesters themselves
    3. Phantasmal silhouette animation of Lotte Reigniger's The Adventures of Prince Ahmed (1926)
  22. 22What is the name of the suite and composer of the 'narrative score' used in Verster's work?Scheherezade Suite, composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  23. 23How can Verster's narrative technique in Dream of Shahrazad best be described?anti-linear narrative of philosophical drift
  24. 24How can one define the 'narrative self'?Individuals form an identity by integrating their life experiences into an internalised evolving story of the self that provides the individual with a sense of unity or purpose in life
  25. 25What is meant by an/the "objective correlative" of the narrative?- A quintessentially modernist device and a kind of contextual metonymy, the objective corretalive is the object in the story that either serves a symbolic purpose or is the object, event or character that is turned into a kind of translating mechanism
  26. 26What are the two streams of social documentary?Committed Documentary and Griersonian Documentary
  27. 27What are the key characteristics of the committed documentary?1. Film as a tool for social change
    2. Subject-agency
    3. Use-value
    4. Active audience response
    5. Clearly biased
  28. 28What are the key characteristics of the Griersonian documentary?1. Documentary as art - focus on film form
    2. Valorise the 'working man'
    3. Passive audience
    4. Voice-of-God narration
  29. 29What does Verster's film suggest, besides a new potential for creative and political self-consciousness?An intersubjective record of unique moments in the history of the world
  30. 30What are the three central features of Sarah Polley's narrative style in Stories We Tell?Her film process augments:
    1. the constructed nature of the self
    2. demonstrates the elusiveness of truth
    3. enhances the self-reflective element necessary to memoir
  31. 31How does Polley complicate our understanding of the memoir genre in Stories We Tell (2013)?Film is a collaborative affair, which seems antithetical to the singular author in the memoir tradition, and yet here it is actually conducive to the plural - We versus I - and the open-ended nature of Polley's documemoir. The lack of a single "I" perspective complicates our expectations and understanding of the memoir genre which typically relies on the memory and consioucness of a single remember-er. This collapsed boundary may suggest that memoir's borders have become entirely too flexible. On the other hand, it may we reveal another frontier in our understanding of self as well as of memoir.
  32. 32What is the form of Shahrazad?Rhetorical
  33. 33What are the techniques used in Shahrazad?Handheld observational footage; news footage; interviews (formal and vox pops); archival footage and montage
  34. 34What is the form of Stories We Tell?Narrative
  35. 35What are some of the techniques used in Stories We Tell?Interview; archival footage; renacted video; observational and interactive footage
  36. 36What is the mode of Miner's Shot Down?Hybrid - primarily expository; aspects of interactive; moments of reflexivity

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