The Documentary

Movie Reflection In Criminology 101, we watched a documentary called The House I live in. It came out to the public on October 5th, 2012. It was directed, written, and starred Eugene Jarecki. Eugene Jarecki is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning director of dramatic and documentary subjects. On his biography, it states that “. He has appeared on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart', 'Charlie Rose', 'The Colbert Report', 'FOX News', CNN, and many other outlets, while also being featured in the New York

A documentary is defined as ‘a nonfiction motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, for the purpose of education or maintaining a historical record’. Documentaries throughout history have covered a wide range of topics, including animal rights and the issues surrounding it. The documentary The Cove (2009), directed by Louis Psihoyos, examines and questions dolphin hunting practices in Taiji, Japan. The film scrutinises Japanese fishing practices and the Japanese government’s involvement

Documentary Film Analysis Worksheet History 221 – African American History Before 1877 Instructions: • You will find the list of films you can choose from in the Lesson section of the course. • Go to the list and pick your film. You must view the entire film. If you can’t access films because of deployment, geographic location, or other reasons, please let your instructor know so they can give you an alternate assignment. • Please type you answers into this sheet. You must submit the worksheet

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

In the documentary, “Flint Town” we are exposed to a multitude of visuals that show us the depths of poverty that the city of Flint has devolved to. Large amounts of abandoned property is shown, given an in-depth perspective of the poverty. We see darks and lights in multiple portions of the documentary, symbolizing the poverty and prosperity. In “Roger and Me” we see a contrasting visual representation with light colors being used in the entire documentary. The sounds of poverty are shown substantially

the real thing mediated. And the documentary genre attempts to do exactly the same thing. So in this process of visualization, there comes the creative intervention of the documentary film maker in all phases of production. In other words, ‘aesthetics’ plays a vital role in documentary film. The fact that the film maker’s aesthetic concepts bring in an element of subjectivity into the documentary film poses an important question: “in what way, then, a documentary film is different from a feature

Documentaries and perspectives To start talking about the “blackfish” Documentary. We have to know what is a documentary. A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record. As defined by wikipedia. So a documentary is intended to document some aspect of reality not one point of view. A part of the reality about seaworld is that it benefits the country and the people

The ethical documentary is a contradiction in terms. Discuss, referring in detail to one or more films. An ethical documentary is meant to show an honest representation of actuality. However, the achievement of this ethical approach is problematic as the filmmaker faces difficulties of representation, treatment, and perception of their subject on screen. A discussion of this problem of the ethical documentary can be separated into the filmmaker's ethical role and the ethics of the treatment of their

Documentaries are a form of media that have been around for decades and have been used to display and educate a diverse range of subject matter from the lives of animals, political controversies, to how eating McDonalds for every meal of the day can effect your health. Because of their long history there have been many factors that have influenced the production of documentaries such as societal and economical changes. One of what is debatably the largest factors that has influenced documentaries

Documentaries. A piece of multimedia produced to enhance viewers knowledge about a particular subject or event. They purport to portray reality; strive to showcase an unbiased viewpoint; endeavour to tell a truthful story. However, this goal is rarely achieved. Directors create documentaries in such a way they can never portray the entire truth. Filmmakers manipulate numerous techniques such as interviews, footage, and editing to construct their version of the truth. They depict reality in their