of social reality may not be presented. In order to address this problem‚ certain producers have distorted reality‚ thus not creating a simple account of fieldwork experience. Particularly‚ Nanook of the North‚ now considered as the first staged documentary‚ is not a pure translation into film‚ of the Inuits’ lifestyle. Flaherty is said to "make it all up" according to his assistant Helen Van Dongen who does not consider him as a documentarian. However‚
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That means that approximately‚ 133 people day in a day due to foodborne illnesses. Therefore‚ health and safety standards need to be raised in the food industry to protect consumers from ingesting E. coli and other dangerous bacteria. In the documentary “Food Inc.”‚ mother Barbara Kowalcyk shared her story of when her two year old son Kevin died from a strand of E. coli 0157:H7 in 2001. Kevin died because of a contaminated hamburger from a fast food joint. Had there been more inspections and regulations
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Roller Derby Laura Jaramillo Journal July 24‚ 2012 Multicultural A Whole New World This week I attended a one-time screening for a movie called Derby Baby. It was a documentary film on women who play roller derby. It was a small screening in a town called Wilmette. Over the past year I have been introduced to the culture and world of roller derby by my girlfriend. I have been able to experience many different events related to the culture‚ but this movie brought a different life
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mentioned in a prior class it is more or less a sitcom and not capturing the family in a documentary style the way in which An American Family is. An American Family challenged traditional forms of documentaries and violated viewers expectations of what a documentary was supposed to be about (Ruoff‚ 1998). The way in which this show is shot and edited also gives is more of a narrative feel than a documentary style. I would argue that the way the it is broken into different episodes especially
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Documentary and fictional aspects of the film Fahrenheit 9/11 “In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”(web quotes) This quote by Alfred Hitchcock contains some truth‚ but in past decades the documentary genre has become more than just factual information about real people and places. It has become a mode for opinion and bias. In Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11‚ the “creative use of actuality” (film ed. Grierson) in its editing‚ style and source information
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Compare any one documentary film with any one cinema dramatization of real events. Compare and contrast the cinematic techniques each film uses to persuade the audience that they are witnessing real story The films I have chosen are based on the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro. The first being the cinematic film “City of God‚” 2002‚ directed by Fernando Mierelles and Katia Lund1 and “Dancing with the Devil‚” 2009‚ a film documentary by Jon Blair2. The two films are intended to be an insight into
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being a cinematic accompaniment to a narrator reading an essay. From another perspective‚ an essay film could be defined as a documentary film visual basis combined with a form of commentary that contains elements of self-portrait (rather than autobiography)‚ where the signature (rather than the life-story) of the filmmaker is apparent. The cinematic essay often blends documentary‚ fiction‚ and experimental film making using a tones and editing styles.[17] The genre is not well-defined but might include
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Disconnected is about three college students who choose give up their computer for a documentary. Some key aspects of the documentary are how attached our society is to computers and the internet in general‚ even in 2007. Our culture is heavily reliant on technology to help them get through our daily lives. It is basically a requirement for professional communication‚ school‚ and even to access to other older forms of media such as books and old articles and diagrams. Those ideas were made especially
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Film Review Chosen Film: Biggie and Tupac Biggie & Tupac (Nick Broomfield‚ 2002) is a documentary styled film directed and produced by ballsy British director Nick Broomfield who goes through great lengths in learning and portraying the real throughout the film. Out of many individuals examining the connections between the murders of multi-platinum selling rappers Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie) and Tupac (2Pac) Shakur‚ Broomfield’s account was deemed one of the most in-depth examination of the link
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The beginning of the documentary‚ “The Invisibles” talks about the journey to a new world‚ United States‚ the many risks those who try to escape the economic problems take just to get across the border. Many distasteful thing happen to families who try to reach North America‚ people are kidnapped‚ tortured in an inhumane matter‚ and killed in front of the others. This establishes fear among all other kidnapped to and all other who attempt to cross the border in hope of a better life. One thing that
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