Entrance Activity

1) Voice of God is a convention of the Performative mode

2) “The documentarist, like any communicator in any medium, makes endless choices” - Erik Barnouw (1993)

3) “To make a documentary is therefore to persuade the viewer that what appears to be is” (Nichols – 2001)

FALSE - Expository

TRUE

FALSE - Vaughan (1999)

REVISE - Section A and B

Purchase a copy of ‘Fight Club’ and……

Homework

Title:

Exam Paper Practice – Revisit Question

Monday 23rd March 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section B Specialist Study 2: Spectatorship Topics – Spectatorship

and Documentary

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• YOU WILL revisit the exam question from Lesson 16 to develop your understanding of what IS the most effective technique.

• Review the learning.

AO1

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together and

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films.

Which documentary techniques are most effective in presenting spectators with ‘the real’? Refer to at least two documentaries you have studied.

Complete this question again, however YOU MUST primarily focus on ‘Bowling For Columbine’.

Pairs – 10 minutes

Identify x2 scenes whereby they present some techniques that help present “the real”.

FeedbackWhich documentary techniques are most effective in presenting spectators with ‘the real’? Refer to at least two documentaries you have studied.

Task - 10 minutes By using x1 of these scenes, YOU MUST write a PEA Paragraph explaining their reasons in a clear prose answer.

Observational vs. ‘Bowling For Columbine’

How does this text challenge the expectations of an Observational Documentary?

YOU SHOULD refer to examples from the texts to support your argument.

What have you learnt?

What IS the most effective technique in presenting the spectator with “the real”? YOU MUST write down your answer in no more than x3 words.

Homework

Revise for Exam Due: Tomorrow – 2 Lessons time