Docufiction

Girl Model and Documentary as Argument Documentaries occupy a unique space in the film world. Not only must these films attempt to provide a perspective on reality, they must also engage the audience and provide a form of entertainment. In portraying reality, the films generally take on a specific perspective. Documentary filmmakers create a film advocating a specific point of view in order to create interest in the film and create a stronger film overall. Bill Nichols calls this the documentary’s

Documentaries are films concerning factual or actual topics. These films have a variety of aims. To record important events and ideas. to inform viewers, to convey opinions and to create public interest. The documentary that this essay will be based around is called The king of Kong: a fistful of quarters created and directed by Seth Gordon on the 28th of February 2008. Released by the New Line Cinema that scored a box office of 790,128 USD. Throughout this essay I will discuss the rivalry, the differences

The Wolfpack is a 2015 documentary that tells the story of the Angulo family, specifically the six movie obsessed brothers, and their life in a tiny New York City apartment. The Angulo brothers, all named by their Hare Krishna father for different iterations of the god Krishna, shared a six room apartment with their parents and older sister, Visnu. Their tight knit relationship developed in part from the isolation the family experienced during the boys childhood. During the film, they tell the

Introduction Documentary film, a term coined by John Grierson, “the father of the documentary film movement in the English speaking world,” (Barsam, 1973, p. 77), concerns a genre that is unlike other forms of cinema. There are no actors and the “plot” reveals itself in authentic actions rather than dialogue. The people concerned are the characters, their lives the setting. In the years leading up to Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first such feature-length film, the medium was immensely

In 2014, a Chinese documentary television series named “A bite of China” was popular in the world. Chinese has been advocating “food is the paramount necessity of the people”, and create a splendid food culture during the thousands of years. The seven-episode documentary series not only shows delicious Chinese food but only Chinese culture. Audiences could learn the migrate history of Chinese people, current situation of education and economics growth in China through foods. I find some concepts

Documentaries are one of the most powerful ways to make an audience think or feel a particular way about someone, an idea or a group. listeners or viewers should not always believe everything that is portrayed in the documentary because it may sway the audience to a certain opinion by using effective film making and editing techniques. My presentation today will demonstrate how these techniques are used in a documentary to evoke change. The documentary Blackfish is an applicable example here. I will

How Do Documentaries Produce ‘Truth Effects’? The role of media has often been a subject of much debate, particularly in terms of its role in portraying and conveying truth to the target audience. Some argue upon its utility as a means to disseminate information and to rectify perceptions and facts in the minds of the viewers; while others squabble on the amount of misrepresentation which is often adopted by media as a means to project baseless arguments which lead to severe impact on the minds,

Documentaries have always contained point of view and persuasion. The art of documentaries is manipulation of an audience for a purpose, as John Greison says “documentary film is the creative treatment of actuality”. The first documentary “Home of the Blizzard” was created in 1913 by Frank Hurley Productions. It was the world's first insight of experiences through a screen. In 1922, the first successful documentary, Nanook of the North, was documented by Robert J. Flaherty, though the black and

A documentary is an art form pulling away from a film as it tries to create the illusion of reality by becoming non-fiction. Film creates a great sense of escape but documentaries create a sense of realism. The history of documentary began quite basic by just facing the mirror towards nature. But as the years prolonged; ideologies, societies and controversies arose and documentary-makers decided to block certain parts of the mirror to show what they want you to see, “the truth”. The very first documentary

When a social issue arises, many activists turn to different media outlets to voice their views and demand social change. For decades, actualities- known today as documentaries, have been used to give viewers an inside look on real life without being there to experience it firsthand. Often, directors use these films to persuade the audience into taking their side regarding various societal issues. Filmmakers help sway their targeted audience by using different codes and conventions to appeal their