Sunday 30 September 2012
That Thing: Lara Croft
http://www.glogster.com/emilyeglover/lara-croft-by-emilyeglover/g-6l6eqfihb0lsch0cragkta0
Friday 28 September 2012
Thursday 27 September 2012
Documentary Theory
Documentary theory notes:
Narrative structure- Open ending documentaries leave questions for the audience and allow them to come to their own conclusion.
Closed endings leave no questions or loose ends, showing a clear resolution. Some documentaries have a mixed ending; this is when some questions raised by the events shown in the documentary are answered and others are left unanswered.
Documentary types- There are different types of documentaries. Fly on the wall documentaries allow the audience to view the events shown as if they are there as the it often seems that the camera is not there and the audience is watching the lives of the people involved as if they are a fly on the wall. Voice of God documentaries are narrated by an unseen voice and often don't have a presenter that is seen on screen. These documentaries relly on the narrator and people being interviewed to tell the story. Mixed documentaries use techniques from other types of documentaries. For example, they often include interviews, a 'voice of god' narrator and, sometimes, fly on the wall camera techniques. Current affairs documentaries show important events that are current news, similarly to Topical documentaries that also show an in depth look at a news item.
Documentary techniques- If a documentary is observational, it makes it feel asif the camera is unseen by the people involved; this is used in Fly on the Wall documentaries. Interviews are used in most documentary types and are often framed in midshot, with the person being interviewed looking at the interviewer and not the camera. Dramatic conflict is created when the documentary shows opposing points (such as two people being interviewed with very different opinions on the topic) editied together, making it look like a conversation in some cases.Archive footage is also heavily used in most documentary types as it helps illustrate and show the point being made by the narrator or people being interviewed.
Narrative structure- Open ending documentaries leave questions for the audience and allow them to come to their own conclusion.
Closed endings leave no questions or loose ends, showing a clear resolution. Some documentaries have a mixed ending; this is when some questions raised by the events shown in the documentary are answered and others are left unanswered.
Documentary types- There are different types of documentaries. Fly on the wall documentaries allow the audience to view the events shown as if they are there as the it often seems that the camera is not there and the audience is watching the lives of the people involved as if they are a fly on the wall. Voice of God documentaries are narrated by an unseen voice and often don't have a presenter that is seen on screen. These documentaries relly on the narrator and people being interviewed to tell the story. Mixed documentaries use techniques from other types of documentaries. For example, they often include interviews, a 'voice of god' narrator and, sometimes, fly on the wall camera techniques. Current affairs documentaries show important events that are current news, similarly to Topical documentaries that also show an in depth look at a news item.
Documentary techniques- If a documentary is observational, it makes it feel asif the camera is unseen by the people involved; this is used in Fly on the Wall documentaries. Interviews are used in most documentary types and are often framed in midshot, with the person being interviewed looking at the interviewer and not the camera. Dramatic conflict is created when the documentary shows opposing points (such as two people being interviewed with very different opinions on the topic) editied together, making it look like a conversation in some cases.Archive footage is also heavily used in most documentary types as it helps illustrate and show the point being made by the narrator or people being interviewed.
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