What were the aims of the Documentary Film Movement in Britain? The British Documentary Film Movement describes the group of film-makers‚ put together by John Grierson and they produced content‚ which engaged in social issues. There were several aims to it‚ including: trying to highlight and improve the living conditions of the working class‚ to show the ‘real society’ in comparison to Newsreels and to incorporate a poetic element into film. Before discussing the movement‚ the influences on
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Among all types of movies‚ documentary is the one that I am least interested in. However‚ the movie Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore gives me a different view on documentary films‚ especially political ones. It is very relevant to the class readings as well as discussions‚ especially on the topic of Congress‚ political campaign and civil engagement. First‚ the movie successfully demonstrates how a political campaign is organized. In the movie‚ we hardly see a role of
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Do UK Reality TV Documentaries have any Anthropological Credentials? Introduction Nanook of the North (1922) by Robert J Flaherty portrays the life of an Inuit family living in the Canadian Arctic and is widely regarded as the first of the then new genre‚ documentary cinema. At the time the piece was praised for its innovative yet entertaining value and set a new president for non fiction cinema. As one journalist then expressed ‘Here was drama‚ rendered far more vital than any trumpedup drama could ever be by the fact that it was all
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strategies to Film‚ TV or Radio documentary-makers use to convey to viewers or listeners the ‘truthfulness’ of their work? What might be the problem with these strategies? Oxford Dictionary’s definition of documentaries is as follows “A film or television or radio programme that provides a factual report in a particular subject.” Documentaries are made to help inform and educate its audience‚ usually revealing new information on the chosen subject. Documentary-makers present factual information
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Children Full of Life The documentary “Children Full of Life”‚ is a CBC broadcast set in 2002. In the documentary‚ a fourth grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa Japan‚ learn lessons on how to be compassionate from their homeroom teacher Mr. Kanamori. The documentary follows this group of students throughout their school year‚ and through their experiences as a team we see how they develop together a unity of compassion and cooperation. The main class goal of these grade four students is to
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The Dark Side Of Chocolate When I heard the name of the documentary I must say I expected something different to what it really was. The things that I saw presented in this documentary never even crossed my mind before. When purchasing chocolate products‚ who really stops to wonder about the background of the product. I will never look at chocolate the same again. What truly shocked me was the names of the companies that were ignoring what was going on. I could not believe that they would
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A few weeks later‚ in our ACTS subject‚ we watched a documentary called “ Jiro Dreams of Sushi “. The first few scenes are just introductions. They introduced Jiro Ono and what he does. In the documentary‚ It is shown that Jiro’s shop or restaurant is not that big and not too small. You also can’t see it right away. It just look like an ordinary Japanese shop that is not modern. Well‚ for me it looked that way. It is shown in the documentary that Jiro has a really disciplined character and he is
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The documentary "Precious Knowledge" was shocking and at the same time very interesting. This documentary also had me tearing up a couple of times too‚ because it is sad to know that this program was taken away from these students that felt had done something good for them. It was shocking because I could not believe a senate bill was passed to do away with the teaching of the Mexican American Studies Program from the Tucson Unified School District. However‚ it was interesting to learn how this ethnic
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Financial Literacy /Silver Saving assignment “Beyond Classroom walls” was a very sad but true documentary it showed the lives of a few families that have attended CCBC. The families in the documentary were all going through similar situations .There names were Angel‚ Jack‚ Lisa and Caurdray .Angels segment in the documentary touched me because she was only 27 with 4 children and lived a very rough life ‚Going days without light and still finding time to study has to be one of the hardest things
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suspicion stirred up that she might not be who she said she was‚ Nev‚ his brother‚ and a friend decided to make the documentary “Catfish”‚ Released in September 2010. The movie has exposed how society’s technology advances and the desire to be “picture perfect” has turned modern relationships and online behavior into something we have to question‚ are they “real”? The story
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