Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality‚ primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.[1] A ’documentary film’ was originally shot on film stock—the only medium available—but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video‚ made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice‚ a cinematic
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very interesting name that just screams military film. Based on the name‚ I did not think that it would be a documentary but I am very glad I went to class to view this particular film. Robert McNamara‚ is probably one of the most interesting men that I have watched on a documentary. 85 years old and answering every question he was asked with wit and with a charisma that no other man I have seen ever do with such ease. The perspective of the film regarding the reality of war was rational (at least
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how the five main channels of information in film--visual image‚ print and other graphics‚ speech‚ music‚ noise (sound effects)--work together to communicate it. Note that not all films make use of all five channels (e.g.‚ print and graphics were common in the era of the silent film) and‚ further‚ that the intermittent suppression of one channel (e.g.‚ silence) can also communicate information. Of the five channels‚ the visual image is (in most films) the most important. It is certainly the most
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political and cultural beliefs . These patriarchal ideologies were taken to the Atlantic World and although women were not sailors or explorers and did not directly discover any of the new world they did contribute to an extent toward the successes of the North American Colonies. Even though European women tended to stay home‚ the work of African and Indian women in the colonies contributed to their successes. Women were servants‚ seamstresses‚ midwives‚ slaves‚ tavern
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and 1700s was a time of major change for the natives of North America. The incursion and colonization of Europeans into North America had considerable impacts on Native American lives. Suddenly‚ North American natives found themselves entangled by European power politics. European empires at the time‚ such as the French‚ English and Spanish empires‚ often fought against each other for power and control. The arrival of Europeans into the North American continent meant new political relationships for
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The director uses film techiques to tell the story ad create a respose in the audiece. These techiques are. Shots wide shot- a wide shot is a shot that shows the setting as well as the character. This kind of shot is used so the audience can understand the characters physical experience with the setting. normal shot- a normal shot usually shows the characters waist and up. This is a standard shot that helps to focus attention on the action. close up- a close up shot is a shot in which the camera
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Film Reaction Idiocracy Watching this film was entertaining. I’ve seen it before on Comedy Central and thought it was funny to see how the U.S. was like hundreds of years later. I was excited to know that this film was on the list for doing this paper because I have seen it. This movie was right up my alley because the writer and director of the film is none other than Mike Judge. Of course‚ I’m a fan of his shows‚ especially “Beavis and ButtHead”. Anyway‚ the movie was about two main characters
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ADAPTATION AS INTERPRETATION The debate on cinematic adaptations of literary works was for many years dominated by the questions of fidelity to the source and by the tendencies to prioritize the literary originals over their film versions. (Whelehan:2006) Adaptations were seen by most critics as inferior to the adapted texts‚ as “minor”‚ “subsidiary”‚ “derivative” or “secondary” products‚ lacking the symbolic richness of the books and missing their “spirit”. (Hutcheon:2006) Critics could not forgive
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Fear and Films What I’m afraid of the most in The Paranormal activity movie is that the family is possess and ends up dead. The quite seen‚ before the whole kitchen rattles. Having you wife being taken over by a demon and losing your kids. There is nothing that you can do to save them. Have done my own research and have included pictures of at the end of this paper. To show there is some truth to this. apart. Having your kids over taken by Dominic sprit. The film is just filmed
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Review of the film The film‚ which really starts a few years before 1492 and closures a few years after the fact‚ begins off with a great deal of grave and traditionally successful scene-setting as Columbus’ child and biographer‚ Fernando‚ reviews his father‚ the visionary of inconceivable dreams. The myth of Columbus-as-legend propagated in 1492: Conquest of Paradise just on the grounds that I didn’t generally think about chronicled correctness. But rather I focused around the moderate moving plot
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