entertainment works. Genres may have various types depending on different factors‚ categories‚ subcategories‚ themes‚ plot of a literature‚ art‚ or entertainment contents. Broadly speaking the two important genres may be identified as literary genres and film and television genres. Further genres types may be named such as action‚ comedy‚ horror‚ satire‚ thriller‚ animation‚ live-action scripted‚ live-action unscripted‚ romance and in fact many more. However many times genres in work can’t be defined precisely
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Documentary film-making has a history as long as that of fiction film-making and began in the late 1800s. From the first developments of film cameras many people found the need to ’document’ the life they saw around them. Film gave rise to a new and very powerful way of looking at the things. Each decade brought with it lighter and easier to use camera equipment‚ as well as film stock which could be used in a wider variety of lighting conditions. This made films easier to make‚ and the subjects
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Nanook of the North‚ is considered the first feature-length documentary film‚ but there are many constructed/re-enactments through out it. The movie informed the viewers on how the Eskimos lived during the 1920’s. Robert Flaherty‚ the director‚ followed a family in Northern Canada and documented their daily activities. However many scenes seem to have been retaken in order to get a different shot of the subject. Flaherty could have been unsatisfied with his first shot and so he would have the
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Film essays (or "cinematic essays") consist of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se; or the film literally 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
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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 is
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Research 3-1 iskWATER (Documentary movie) By Nash H. Anggahan Nash H. Anggahan is proud PUP Student with great skills and knowledge. Aside from having these two components of being a great individual‚ this talented artist also has the heart to let the public be aware of the society’s different issues through his work of art. With perseverance and dedication he has come up with a documentary masterpiece he entitled iskWATER. This documentary won the grand prize in
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Roger and Me Proposal and Report Writting The film Roger and me‚ by Michael Moore shows why our society is so critically flawed. Moore uses dialect throughout the film to show the true face of reality we call capitalism. It was filmed more than 20 years ago now and as sad as it is we still do see the reality of what can happen to an entire town when a plant or large corporation is moved away or closed down. Michael Moore is disguised as a TV journalist who interviews autoworkers in his hometown
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starting with calligraphy writing to illustrations caputured by sailors in old fashioned journals. The recent article by Christie Wilson titled “Hoax Documentary Dredges Up Mermaids” is a summary of the recent Aminal Planet documentaries‚ “Mermaids the Body Found” and “Mermaids the New Evidence”. This article not only discounts the information shared in the film but claims to believe the exisistence of shape shifters at the same time. he closest thing to a mermaid in Hawaiian lore is the mo’o‚ according
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synthesizes 5 of Robert McNamara’s lessons with material in the course text. The movie Fog of War is a documentary film directed by Errol Morris about former secretary of defense‚ Robert McNamara. First‚ this term fog of war means that it is unclear what one should do in certain circumstances. This confusion is demonstrated and explained multiple times with McNamara in this documentary. This film covers all of McNamara’s war experiences‚ from bounded rationality and motivation at the end of World
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That was later adapted into a short film by director Robert Enrico and became an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1963. Enrico used dialogue and voice-over sparingly‚ and relied heavily on the rural landscape‚ and how it transformed through war and the psychological state of the protagonist Peyton Farquhar‚ to convey his ideas. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge has an enormous amount of semiotic analysis in the short film. Just in the beginning of the film we see this through the sign on the tree
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