you ate it three times a day for thirty days? After recently watching Super Size Me‚ a documentary that depicts a problem which is now on the road to overtake smoking as the largest cause of preventable deaths in the U.S.‚ I can say that like Morgan Spurlock‚ director of Super Size Me‚ there is a likely chance that the experience would not end pleasantly. In fact‚ the information provided in this documentary short through Spurlock ’s research is informative and shocking to some health professionals
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Documentary Film Analysis Worksheet For History 221 and History 222 Professor Tondeur Instructions: • You will find the list of films you can choose from in the Lesson section of the course. • Go to the list and pick your film. You must view the entire film. If you can’t access films because of deployment‚ geographic location‚ or other reasons‚ please let your instructor know so they can give you an alternate assignment. • You must answer in complete sentences‚ using a short answer/paragraph
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The documentary Babies directed by Thomas Balmes was a fascinating way to learn how infants are raised in different environments and traditions. I found the difference of how the father of the baby in Ponijao and Mongolia were not very much involved in the infants lives‚ it was more just the mother taking care of the babies. One very fascinating concept that stood out to me was the fact that the mother in Mongolia was comfortable about riding a motorcycle while carrying her newborn baby and a toddler
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image‚ music and narration and that of Plantigna’s ideas on narrative in non-fiction films‚ the ideas can be applied to Night and Fog in order to better understand the purpose and effectiveness of narrative in documentary film. Plantigna discusses Bill Nichols’ four modes of documentary film; the observational mode also known as direct cinema; the interactive where the filmmakers’ presence is apparent; the reflexive that takes on the process of representation; and finally the expository mode where
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Period________ Documentary Film Analysis Worksheet Step 1. Pre-viewing Title of Film: Date Released Principle filmmaker(s) Why did you select this particular film for this assignment? What do you think you will see in this motion picture? List three concepts or ideas that you might expect to see based on the title of the film or what you already know about this film. Concepts/Ideas 1. 2. 3. Step 2. Viewing Type of documentary (check
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The film had high ratings all around‚ but there were many different reactions to what Michael had created‚ which caused quite a bit of controversy. Regardless of what critics had to say‚ the film was voted Best Documentary by the NAtional Board of Review‚ the New York Film Critics Circle‚ the Los Angeles Film Critics Association‚ and the National Society of Film Critics. It was even declared as Best Film at the Toronto and Chicago film festivals. With such good reviews
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Delving Deeper: The Missing Pieces of Jean Rouch’s Les Maitres Fous (1955) Untrained as a filmmaker and educated in the field of ethnography‚ Jean Rouch spent much of the 1940’s and 1950’s exploring the colonialized areas of West Africa. He spent his time immersing himself in African culture‚ eventually taking a camera along to film what he witnessed. The footage he collected would later be edited in to several short amateur pieces. Over the next several years‚ Rouch would emerge as an unsuspecting
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Paranormal Activity 2 Paranormal Activity is a horror movie posed as a documentary. Now‚ documentaries can be very interesting and educational. However‚ this fake documentary is a disgrace to the horror genre. I had seen all the previews and debated about going to view the movie. After being talked into going‚ I was very disappointed. Minus the three or four small events‚ the entire movie is nothing but watching security videos where there was no scary paranormal activity. These handful of
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In the eye opening documentary‚ The Human Experiment‚ directed by Don Hardy and Dana Nachman‚ the many health dangers of thousands of harmful chemicals in everyday products are exposed. The film explores the lives of people who have been affected by the ubiquitous chemicals found in our food and our homes. The film addresses the battle against powerful industries that are determined to keep consumers in the dark about the dangers of many of their products. The fight against dangerously lethal chemicals
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“The Cove” – a documentary film by Louie Psihoyos The Oscar winning documentary film “The Cove”‚ directed by Louie Psihoyos‚ exposes the annual massacre of 23‚000 small cetaceans in the National Park Taiji‚ Japan. Even though the trade of dolphins whether using them alive for entertainment purposes is unethical and selling their toxic meat is dangerous for the health‚ the Japanese authorities are supporting it with all possible means. The Japanese government is not only preventing any publicity
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