Documentary Essay

I was surprised to learn about our documentary assignment yesterday. Watching documentaries is one of my favorite things to do, so naturally, I’m struggling with choosing which documentary to write my essay on. Recently, aside from the documentary I mentioned last week, I also had the opportunity to watch one of the most widely known, award-winning documentaries regarding child language development, Secret of the Wild Child. “Genie” Wiley was born into a horrible home, receiving absolutely no love

This journal inspects the importance of creative decision making in various aspects of documentary production, examines whether those decisions help to make the film an engaging cinematic piece, and explores the influences it might have on the society, the cinema and the subject, in relation to my own experience in producing a 15min documentary film Hackney Pirates, and my understandings of relevant practice from the contemporary cinema. Introduction Films about education for children in critical

Assumption about documentaries being true, educational only, no imagination needed aren’t correct . There are several documentaries we watched in class that show that documentaries don’t all fall under the same assumptions. A common assumption about documentaries is that there is no imagination needed. “ In a time when the major media recycle the same stories on the same subjects over and over, when they risk little in formal innovation, when they remain beholden to powerful sponsors with their

The subject of this paper has at least five names. Documentary Hypothesis and JEDP Theory are the most common. In this paper, this scholarly position will always be referred to as Documentary Hypothesis with a few exceptions. Documentary Hypothesis, or JEDP Theory, is the view held by various scholars that the five books of the Pentateuch were really written by four different authors, and not Moses. This theory claims that afterwards various editors (called Redactors) blended the five books together

not a term or word that can be used to define documentary photography. It can be ‘described as a form, a genre, a tradition, a style, a movement and a practice’ (Wells, 2009, p. 69). Documentary photography separates itself from photojournalism as it does not specifically cover breaking news or events, it is intended to draw attention to real-life situations, for example, focusing on a certain group of people or certain locations. The aim of documentary photography is to expose society naturally; it

Emphasized on a partial perspective of an actual event, many documentary filmmakers attempt to highlight a certain social aspect anticipating that their films can raise awareness among audiences and leave a lasting impression on society - an impression that is shaped by credible but limited facts. Viewers often watch documentaries in pursuit of truth and objectivity, but if they choose to watch documentaries, they inevitably have to look through rose colored glasses, seeing that not all sides of

In her essay, “Theories and Strategies of the Feminist Documentary,” E. Ann Kaplan analyzes the validity of criticism against the realism used in verité Feminist documentaries, specifically Janie’s Janie and Joyce at 34, with the basis that the films use precoded realities, constructed by a capitalist economy and patriarchal society. Kaplan argues that while Joyce at 34 uses cinematic techniques familiar to realist Feminist cinema, its differing underlying political discourse and ideologies are made

The documentary entitled "My Reality: A Hidden America" produced by ABC News showcases the struggles of individuals living in the middle-class, living with little to no money to spare at the end of each month. Diane Sawyer reports on the huge wage gap between the middle and upper-class and its effects on the lives of Americans. The documentary presents itself in a way that allows viewers to obtain a thorough understanding of what it is like to be a middle-class American today. Several service workers

As documentary by its very nature introduces itself as factual, concerns exist as to where the boundary between the truth of subject and the fiction produced by its creator emerges. As anything that has been edited has by definition removed certain aspects and enhanced others, there must be at best an innocent naturally occurring bias formed from individual perception, and at worst purposefully manipulated misinformation. Through researching various sources, I intend to discover the difference (if

Making North America: Origins The video by NOVA is a three part session about a rich history of the North America. According to live science by (Gaines 1), it is a premier show being hosted by Kirk Johnson a well renowned paleontologist and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. In the film, Johnson flies, take hikes and rappels in the great continent of North America continent. He uses special kind of earth shattering effects to view the continent