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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Who directed Nanook of the North?
John Grierson
Peter Watkins
Robert Flaherty
Nick Broomfield
Why is this documentary considered problematic in depicting social realism?
(a)
What is the literal meaning of Cinema Verite?
Cinema of lies
Cinema of reality
Very interesting cinema
Cinema of Truth
Name one of the lumiere brother early films (in English!)
(a)
Who directed 'Man with a Movie Camera'?
Sergei Eisenstein
Dziga Vertov
Tzvetan Todorov
Leni Riefenstahl
Why did Cinema Verite become so popular?
Filmmakers are inquisitive and wanted to produce fly on the wall documentaries
Smaller, handheld cameras and synchronized sound to film events made it easier to create documentaries
Larger cameras and sound tracks made documentary more immersive
filmmakers wanted to imitate French new Wave stylistics and depict social realism
Name a Michael Moore Documentary that we have looked at in lessons.
(a)
Who is Bill Nichols?
The director of Night Mail
The author who identified the different types of documentary
The author who was a biographer of documentary making
The director of Supersize Me
Name another Asif Kapadia film apart from Amy
(a)
What did Watkins accuse the popular media of creating.
Chloroform
Duoform
Monoform
sixth form
What does Kapadia call his style of filmmaking?
(a)
Which of the following are all documentary techniques used by Moore?
Participation
Docudrama
Vox pops
Animation
Talking heads
Participation
Observational
Vox pop
Statistics
Cinema Verite
non participatory
What is both Watkins and Moore's work considered to be a form of ?
True fiction
infotainment
Agit prop
docudrama
What is the literal meaning of vox pop?
Poppy Voice
Voice of the populace
interview with people
Voice of the crowd
What year was Amy made?
(a)
