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1. Component
2: Section B
Documentary

2. What is a documentary?
Starter.

3. What we have to study
• The Core study areas
– Film Form
– Meaning and response
– Context
• Specialist areas
– Critical debate (digital technology)
– Filmmakers theories

4. Critical debate; The significance of
digital technology in film
• Developing debate from the 1990s
• Some argue it has changed filmmaking; some
argue it hasn’t impacted on narrative films
designed for cinema release
• Some argue that it is only beginning to
emerge
What do you think?

5. Filmmakers theories
• Either embody or completely challenge
1.Kim Longinotto
2.Michael Moore

6. Why they are important…

9. SO, DEFINE WHAT A
DOCUMENTARY IS
Activity

10. WHAT WORDS REOCCUR?
DEFINE THE TERMS ON YOUR
HANDOUT AND RANK THEM.
Activity

11. What are the similarities/differences?
Documentary Fiction film
Think back to our last unit – consider film form

12. Overall arguments might be;
However…

13. What makes it a documentary then?
•Techniques
•What other techniques
can you think of?

14. Plenary
What are the similarities
and differences between
documentary and fiction
films?