1. Homework
AO4
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: TODAY – Thursday 26th
February
2. Entrance Activity
YOU MUST come up with a word/phrase/example/convention associated to each
of these letters that is relevant to ‘9/11’.
Extension – YOU COULD come up with more than 1 example per. Letter.
3. A – Actuality – Is ‘9/11’ a definitive example of an Actuality?
E – Emotive – What position are the audience put into in accordance with
Stuart Hall (1980)?
I – Interactive – Do we feel a part of the disaster and the evens that unfold?
O – Obtrusive – Does the documentary at times feel voyeuristic and
uncomfortable?
U – Use of Voiceover – Conventional? What does it add to the documentary?
What Mode is this usually associated to? Why?
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4. Title:
Exam Question – 9/11 Focus
Thursday 26th
February 2015
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Section B Specialist Study 2:
Spectatorship Topics – Spectatorship
and Documentary
5. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior
learning.
• YOU WILL get the opportunity
to further your understanding
of the Genre’s controversy in
terms of representing reality as
opposed to presenting reality.
• YOU WILL apply this
knowledge to an exam
question.
• 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.
6. ‘Documentaries work on the spectator in ways
that are very close to fiction films, using narrative
and character to create drama and suspense.’
With reference to the documentary you have
studied, discuss how far you agree with this
statement.
7. “Think – Pair – Share”
of x2 examples from
the documentary
that make it “feel”
like a fiction film.
up with another
students and
compare your
examples.
your views with
the rest of the
class.
Task 1) –
10 minutes
9. Task 2) –
10 minutes
• Go onto the Public Drive and watch the DVD
• There are 2 Scenes to Investigate:
1) From 1: 05: 42 – Gideon ‘Voice of God’ until 1:10:45 – “Gideon was still in darkness”
Elements form other genres (Action, Horror)
Heroic characters (Chief Pfeiffer)
‘Disequilbrium’ (Todorov) drama and suspense – Dramatic moment in the text.
2) Jules & Gideon reunite – Camera positioned to record their emotional reunion –
Intentional? Constructed?
‘Documentaries work on the spectator in ways that are very close to
fiction films’
11. ‘Documentaries work on the spectator in ways
that are very close to fiction films, using narrative
and character to create drama and suspense.’
With reference to the documentary you have
studied, discuss how far you agree with this
statement.
Using these examples (and x1 more scene of your choice) YOU MUST answer the Question.
12. Time – 20-25 minutes
‘Documentaries work on the spectator in ways that are very close to fiction films, using
narrative and character to create drama and suspense.’
With reference to the documentary you have studied, discuss how far you agree with
this statement.
• Fiction Films -
1. Stylistic choices of Jules & Gedeon Naudet
2. Editing techniques – Poetic Mode (Nichols – 2001) – Example(s)?
3. Voice of God commentary – Expository Mode (Nichols – 2001) – Example(s)?
4. Capturing the Action!
• Narrative and Character –
1. Syd Field, Todorov’s 3 Part Narrative, Propp’s Narrative Functions Theory
2. Propp’s Character roles – WHO are the Heroes and ‘Villains’ (Propp) – HOW is this
constructed?
• Drama and suspense
First Plane captured on tape, Tony’s uncertainty of leaving the fire house, The cliffhanger
of uncertainty surrounding Tony coming back, Jules & Gedeon reunited
