Today in class we watched a video on Gumbo. The Gumbo we saw today was not about the creation of the famous New Orleans dish‚ but the creation of Jazz. The Documentary Gumbo was directed by Ken Burns who interviewed different people from critics to famous musicians. One of the famous musicians he interviewed was Wynton Marsalis a famous trumpet player. In the introduction Marsalis said something that grabbed my attention‚ he said: “music is a language”. New Orleans was the home for many people of
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have parents in jail‚ drug abuse‚ and single mothers. The documentary film The Boys of Baraka it begins with logos. To demonstrate the information in the film they present the information on a black screen‚ just as if it were a power point. In the first black screen in the beginning of the film it says; In Baltimore‚ Maryland 76% of African American boys do not graduate High school. Logos are important in this documentary film‚ to demonstrate how serious the problem in Baltimore
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Intelligence work: the politics of American documentary. New York: Columbia University Press‚ 2008. Print. Spence‚ Louise‚ and Vinicius Navarro. Crafting truth: documentary form and meaning. New Brunswick‚ N.J.: Rutgers University Press‚ 2011. Print. Maria Mohammad Film 108 TA: Josh Olejarz Montage Influencer of Historical Events: Night and Fog vs. Fahrenheit 9/11 In documentaries when a director takes on a sensitive
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books and websites on the internet and copies of different theses. Documentary films a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another‚ to “document” reality. Although “documentary film” originally referred to movies shot on film stock‚ it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television series. Documentary‚ works to identify a “filmmaking practice‚ a cinematic tradition‚ and
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Moore is disguised as a TV journalist who interviews autoworkers in his hometown of Flint Michigan‚ after the GM plant closes down. In this documentary his goal is to interview GM’s chairman Roger B. Smith. Throughout the documentary he interviews some of the citizens of Flint to find out how they feel about Roger and the closing of the plant. In the documentary I see a town falling apart. Moore interviews a woman who skins and sells rabbit meat to make a living. The sheriff of the town worked for
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Raquel Damti March 18‚ 2012 Video Production Professor Cheatum AOKP Documentary From the beginning of time‚ humans have had a need to communicate with one another. Despite the changing forms of communication due to technological development‚ this desire to connect remains strong if not more pertinent than ever. In the increasingly global society that we now live in‚ the need for instantaneous understanding and interpersonal connections has made mediums such as film incredibly effective. Thus‚
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Aufderheide‚ P. (2010‚ September). Making Your Media Matter 2010 Conference: Honest Truths--Documentary Ethics in Practice. Retrieved March 4‚ 2013‚ from Center for Social Media: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/making-your-media-matter/video/making-your-media-matter-2010-conference-honest-truths-documentary-et Aufderheide‚ P.‚ Jaszi‚ P.‚ & Chandra‚ M. (2009‚ September). Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work. Retrieved March 4‚ 2013‚ from Center for Social
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Don’t Look Back by D.A. Pennebaker is a 1967 documentary which follows the young folk singer Bob Dylan‚ during his 1965 tour in the United Kingdom. The documentary is shot in the observational style known as ‘direct cinema’‚ which was invented between 1958 and 1962 in North America and focuses on the subject acting in their natural habitat as if there was no camera - made possible‚ through an agreement between the filmmaker and the subject. This form of documenting became possible due to the development
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The documentary Bully‚ brings up the negative sides to bullying‚ but does not mention the positives. You cannot “stop” bullying completely. It is a problem that every individual must go through to become a stronger person later in life. It is sad when kids do take their life or others‚ but that can’t make up for the strength that bullying gives kids. You’ll look back and thank each and every one of those bullies for making them the person that they are now. Bully shows countless and countless occurrences
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Frederick Wiseman (born January 1‚ 1930 in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ U.S.) is an American filmmaker‚ documentarian‚ and theatrical director.[1] He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer. He has won numerous film awards‚ as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.[2][3] In 2003‚ Wiseman was awarded the Dan David Prize for his outstanding films‚ which make us reckon with our emotions and the cost to society of marginalizing those who cannot speak for themselves. In
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