Matthew Foster Intro to Documentary Film Midterm Paper What Is Documentary Film? I once heard a quote from an unknown man who said‚ "Words are only words until you invest some meaning into them." I didn ’t fully comprehend what he meant by this statement. Surely every word has its own definition‚ giving it some type of meaning. So why would they being meaningless without me? Not until I entered this class and focused on documentary film did I re evaluate this statement. What the man meant
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Impact on Society Film has played a huge part in American society since 1878 when Edward James made the first real motion picture. Ever since Edward’s first movie production‚ film has made many technological advances that change the way we look at film today. This is obvious when you go to a local movie theatre today rather than looking at movies from the 1900’s. I am very interested on finding out information about the impact of film on society. I personally think that today’s film has many different
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Introduction. Although the quality of movies is vastly degrading these days‚ there are still some great family-oriented movies. These are films which can be watched and enjoyed by everyone regardless of age and gender. Watching movies is an exercise that can be best enjoyed with family and even friends where everybody can have fun together and build everlasting memories. The following is a list of the top 5 family movies you can share with your family members as well as your loved ones to double
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The film Koyannisqatsi (1983) had opened the public’s eyes to the possibility of extensive time-lapse cinematography and the non- verbal style of filmmaking. Filmmakers such as Frances’ Jean Painleve made similar films before but nothing had been made such as Koyannisqatsi (1983). The other films where similar but made more towards the experimental film audiences. Godfrey Reggio the director of Koyannisqatsi (1983) and Ron Fricke the cinematographer showed how the modern world was moving from a
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When conducting an interview for the American Film Institute‚ actor Jeff Bridges‚ discussing 1941’s Citizen Kane‚ said its director was "twenty-five years old‚ and he didn’t know what he couldn’t do...and Greg Toland gave him all the confidence in the world (2011‚ 0:28 sec.). Bridges was of course talking about the late‚ great Orson Welles. But who was Greg Toland? Well known in Hollywood at the time‚ Toland was a longtime cinematographer who had not only won an Academy Award for 1939’s Wuthering
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While writing allows single out a common thread to many events‚ a film is bound to display the unique moments captured by the camera. To miss out on certain occurrences‚ due to technical issues linked with the use of a camera‚ reduces the possibility of being objective through film‚ as all aspects 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
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Action Movies Action films is one of the most popular type of movies. This genre are always favorite since they are different from others. They show us that life can be dangerous‚ dejected‚ bloody‚ and deadly or it can be magnificent‚ innocent‚ and normal. Action film is a genre where physical action takes priority in the storytelling. Unlike other genres‚ this variety has been one of the most dominant in the world of the film industry for his highly complex‚ as is the destruction of an entire city
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What are the five stages of film making and what is the producers major creative and commercial tasks in each of those? Development The development stage is one of the most crucial stages for a producer‚ it is where you get the chance to plan every aspect of your production before you begin pre-production and production. The chance to get the ball rolling right. During the discovery stage of the film it is the producers role to obtained rights or an option to a film that he thinks is promising
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GENRE Film genres represent classification of movies into groups that have similar and familiar themes‚ settings‚ filmic techniques‚ period‚ plot‚ motifs and stars. Genre is easy to recognize but it is very difficult to define. Because of a changing nature of genres and subgenres‚ their fusion and our changing perception toward art‚ independent or foreign films that are becoming its own genre in western viewers eyes. Film genre creates some expectations for its audience. Most films within a
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There were moments in “Stand and Deliver” that moved me very deeply and other moments so artificial and contrived that I wanted to edit them out‚ right then and there. The result is a film that makes a brave‚ bold statement about an unexpected subject‚ but that lacks the full emotional power it really should have. “Stand and Deliver” tells the story of a high school mathematics teacher who takes a class of losers and potential dropouts and transforms them‚ in the course of one school year‚ into
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