This document discusses the documentary film Touching the Void and how spectators experience documentaries. It prompts analyzing the spectator experience of watching Touching the Void from both an immersive perspective as well as a film student perspective. Additionally, it lists other documentaries like Nightmail, Terminus, Kurt and Courtney, and Bowling for Columbine that could be discussed in relation to how spectators interact with and interpret documentaries.

1. Touching the Void
True or false

2. ‘Documentary makers form
our views on their subjects
and tell us what is real and
what is not.’
True or false?

3. Spectatorship
This is ultimately what the exam is about how people react to this films
and why!
Lead with spectator experience

4. Your question…
‘Documentaries should never be trusted’ How important is
the sense that they should trust the filmmaker?

5. Poster each case study…
Consider the experience of watching it from an immersive
experience to a film students experience.
Nightmail& Terminus
Kurt and Courtney
Touching the Void
Bowling for Columbine

6. The other question…

7. Exemplar examinations
questions
Introduction - what is a documentary. Revise a
definition. What are you going to write about.
Your must engage with the notion of spectatorship
Discuss your answer with reference to at least two
documentaries. Include director and year.
Discuss in depth with reference to scenes, codes and
conventions, types, technology.
Compare and contrast, different historical times,
different directors work, same subject matter different
times. Consider context.