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Documentary

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  • narrative, categorical, or rhetorical
  • “creative treatment of actuality.”
  • implicit contract that exists between those who produce and distribute documentaries and those who watch them, both of whom regard documentary as fundamentally truthful
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documentary style

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  • contributes substantially to our experience, perception + response
  • historically to be associated with truthfulness
  • expository, observational, participatory
  • conventions used to elicit trust
  • detachment makes us feel like they are objective
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Expository

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-characterized by verbal commentary and a presentational mode

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Observational

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  • characterized by an invisible camera and a world that “speaks itself”
  • 1950s: direct cinema wanted world to speak for itself
  • ppl don’t look at camera, invisible spectators
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Participatory

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  • characterized by the filmmaker’s presence on camera and a frank acknowledgement of the filmmaking process
  • calls attention to conventions of documentary
  • relationship betw. filmmaker + subject
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reflexive

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  • most truthful: lay bare process + relationship with subject
  • becomes part of movie
  • investigatory process
  • no way to be an invisible spectator
  • calls attention assumptions + conventions that govern documentary filmmaking
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evidentiary editing

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  • allows for creation of rhetoric
  • organized in a way that is around logic
  • not concerned with space + time, but in logic
  • expository
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categorical

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  • provide info
  • convey categorized info
  • groupings to organize knowledge of world
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rhetorical

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-persuade viewer
-make argument
1)adresses viewer openly
2)matter of opinion: presents evidence+arguments, expression of ideology
3)appeals to our emotions
4persuade you to make a choice

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cinema verite

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  • filmmaker is more involved, provokes action
  • 180s-present, Michael Moore
  • reflexivity
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actuality

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-social reality

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creative treatment

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  • transforms raw data creatively

- choices on film stock, lens, framing, sound shapes view actuality

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Re-presentation + Representation

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  • re-presentation: index, semiotics-material bond to something else
  • cinema can preserve world + re-present it
  • represent: shaping of what is presented, dictated by technical choices + view of filmmakers/idea of the world
  • re-presentation supported by representation
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August + Louis Lumiere

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  • founded cinema
  • 1895 started screening short mundane films
  • filmed around the world + screened it
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actualite

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-film real life, little staging, taking slice of life

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voice-over narration

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  • never appears on screen=voice of God narration

- on screen=expert

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direct

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-records ongoing events as it happens

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interview

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-testimonies about events/social movements

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compilation

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-assembling images from archival sources

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rhetorical: types of argument

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1) from source: relies on reliable sources of info
- present experts+knowledgable testimonies
2) subject centred: appeals to beliefs common at the time
- relies on evidence: stats, research, polls, usually through footage
- enthymemes: rely on widespread opinion+conceal crucial assumptions
3) viewer-centred: taps into emotion