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Entrance Activity
YOU MUST select and recall the key elements associated to this mode of documentary film making – DON’T RUB THIS LIST OUT!
Extension – YOU COULD talk about HOW they’re represented in the text.
Observational Mode (Nichols – 2001) of Documentary
Title:
9/11 – Key Scene Overview
Tuesday 24th February 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.
• Your knowledge and understanding of the observational Mode will be developed.
• YOU WILL also consider the cross-pollination of other modes within the examples we analyse today.
• 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.
HOW have Jules & Gedeon Naudet constructed this documentary?
Are there other enigma clues (Roland Barthes – 1975) like this in the lead up to September 11th?
FM4 – Section B
‘9/11’ (2002 – Jules & Gedeon Naudet)• “The accidental documentary”• 2 French Brothers filming a ‘Probie’ (Rookie) firefighter Tony Benetatos• September 11th 2001 – The shift in the focus of the documentary changed.
"They always say there is always a witness for history. I guess that day, we were chosen to be the witness."
- Jules Naudet
Task 1) – 10 minutes
YOU MUST watch the 2 key scenes and complete the Questions on the worksheet provided.
Task 2) - 5 minutes Go onto the Public Drive and YOU MUST find a defining example of the Observational Mode of Documentary from the text:
WHY?HOW
YOU SHOULD establish what scene it is and – through picking out relevant micro feature(s) establish WHY and HOW by recording them into your exercise books.
FEEDBACK
FM4 – Section BEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS
What does Jules Naudet’s Voice of god commentary ‘expose’ to the spectator in the lead up to the first plane hitting the WTC?
What have you learnt?
Revisit the list – YOU MUST add x2 new areas you have learnt today and x1 that you need to investigate further to extend your understanding.
Observational Mode (Nichols – 2001) of Documentary
HomeworkAO4
Observational Mode – the recording of events as they happen through an unobtrusive camera.
Find x2 examples from the documentary – ONE FOR – ONE AGAINST – This Observational Mode convention
Due: Next Lesson – Thursday 26th February