film exam

Clues

• -Doumentaries directly speak to viewers in the form of a voice over which proposes a strong argument and point of view. The films are rhetorical and try to persuade the viewer. (10, 4)
• 1) Documentary with a dramatized content 2) Uses conventional documentary techniques (interviews) 3) combines there techiniques with narative techniques such as reconstructions to engage and attract its audiences 4) Verisimilitude (5, 11)
• According to this, while any one media text does not have too much affect, years and years of watching more violence will make you less sensativet to it. Years of watching women being mistreated in soaps will make you less bothered about it. (3, 11, 6)
• Film makers are actively involved in the issue. They change the out come of the documentary through their interaction. (11, 4)
• fly on the wall style, no interaction with subjects who are being filmed, minimal editing of cut aways, usually hand held camera used. (13, 4)
• The appearance of something being real or true. (14)
• The doumentary is aware of itself as a film, the filmmakers present the limitations, dilemmas and aspects of creating the film. This gives audiences a glimse of difficulties in presenting the truth. (9, 4)
• The way in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective. (14)
• This is the idea that no text has one simple meaning. The audience themselves help to create the meaning of the text, we all decode the text differently in individual ways. (9, 8)
• We need people we trust to validate information presented in the media.The theory calls these people 'opinion leaders' (3, 3, 4, 4)