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Modes of Documentary
Modes of Documentary
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Testing understanding of documentary conventions and modes
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Who interacts with the subject in a performative documentary?
No one
Everyone
The crew
The filmmaker
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Bill Nichols based his modes on the interpretation of...
The genres of fiction films
The history of documentary films
The genres of non-fiction films
French cinema
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Who was Nanook of the North?
Mr. Armstrong's grandmother in Broadmeadows
An analogy of how documentaries came into being
One of the earliest documentaries
Pioneered docudrama
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Bill Nichols' modes cannot be mixed?
No, usually a film sticks to one mode
Yes, often two or modes coexist in a documentary
A modes is like a recipe that must be followed completely
Usually a film consists of all six modes on equal terms
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Who is the focus of attention in a reflexive documentary?
The audience
The camera crew
The subject
The filmmaker
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Who is the man behind the theory of documentary modes?
Hitchcock
Bill Nichols
Robert Mckee
Syd Field
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Can the filmmaker be in an observational mode documentary?
No, so they cannot influence what is happening
No, because they will ruin the shot
Yes, because it is all scripted
Yes, as long as she/he does not talk
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What is a documentary?
A fictional representation of reality
A quiz show
A genre of film
A non-fictional representation of reality
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Propaganda is...
a way to describe mass media
Information of a biased nature, used to persuade the public
Information from the government used to persuade the public
the role given to he/she who organizes the props in films
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What does the information in your documentary need to be to the audience?
Funny
Scary
Convincing
Realistic
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What should you documentary communicate to the audience?
A joke
A sense of realism
A message
All of the above
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What does a performative documentary acknowledge?
The people in the documentary
The emotional aspect of the documentary
The funny side of a documentary
The wrong scenes of a documentary
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The poetic mode is...
Subjective representation of reality
An interview between the filmmaker and subject
A topic personal to the filmmaker
Where the filmmaker is the natural observer
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According to Nichols, which mode of documentary came first?
Performative
Participatory
Poetic
Expository
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Label two conventions of the poetic mode
Music
Camera shots
Reenactments
Interviews
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Bill Nichols' theory of documentary modes is...
The truth about documentaries
A framework still used to distinguish elements in films
The only framework used to analyse documentaries
An old theory that has mostly been forgotten
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What mode of documentary would a wildlife documentary be?
Expository
Participatory
Observational
Performative
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What is a voice over in a documentary?
Somebody speaking over someone else
Somebody talking off camera, offering thoughts and reasons
Someone telling others to be quiet
Nobody talking
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What is the Kuleshov Effect?
Relying on the audience to interpret the meaning of a shot
A type of stutter
A way of implying associations between two shots
An editing technique
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What documentary mode would TV news be?
Performative
Observational
Participatory
Expository
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Name the conventions of an observational documentary.
No reenactments
Interviews
No interviews
Archive footage
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What is a participatory mode documentary?
Addresses the subject rather than the audience
Interview(s) between the filmmaker and subject
Based on real life moments
Based on real life facts
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What is a reflexive mode documentary?
Based on the filmmaker
Based on real life moments
Based on facts
Based on suggestions and opinions
