Modes of four different Documentaries

Name of Documentary (year):

1. 1       The Emperors New Clothes (2015)
2. 2    Proud to be British (197
3.       Once Upon a Forest (2013)
4.       This is me (GET INFO)

Director(s):

1. Michael Winterbottom
2. Nick Broomfield
3. Luc Jacquet
4. Rhys Ernst

Presenter(s)/Narrator(s):

1.       Russell Brand

2.       N/A

3. Michel Papineschi
4. Maya Jafer, D'Lo

The function of the film(s)?

1.       How the rich are getting and the poor are getting poorer.

2.       How 3 different classes of how each classes are proud to be British

3.       About a forest and his history there

4.       Accepting transexuality

List the recognizable code conventions?

1.       B-Roll, Interview, Voice over

2.       B-Roll, Interviews, B/W film tape, Slow editing

3.       Slow editing, cinematic, voice over

4.       B-Roll, Interviews, cinematic

Does the film conform to our expectations of documentary? How?

1.       Yes, very bias. No counter argument to suggest why, just states how the rich are richer and examples of poorer places. No investigation or reasoning to why this effect is happening, just that it is.

2.        

What was the mode of this documentary and why?

1.       Expository Mode – because its bias with a commanding voice over

2.       Observational Mode – because it was very visual and unbias with no voice over

3.       Observational / Performative modes – discuss the conventions of why between the two of them

4.       Poetic – because it was visual and told a narrative about the interviewees past experiences

What was the perspective (bias) of this documentary? How do we know this?

1.       Left wing politics – because it moans at the rich about the poor.

2.       Unbias - interviewed a series of different classes

3.       Ecological – saving the forest