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Documentary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who directed Nanook of the North?

a)

John Grierson

b)

Peter Watkins

c)

Robert Flaherty

d)

Nick Broomfield

2.

Why is this documentary considered problematic in depicting social realism?

(a)  

3.

What is the literal meaning of Cinema Verite?

a)

Cinema of lies

b)

Cinema of reality

c)

Very interesting cinema

d)

Cinema of Truth

4.

Name one of the lumiere brother early films (in English!)

(a)  

5.

Who directed 'Man with a Movie Camera'?

a)

Sergei Eisenstein

b)

Dziga Vertov

c)

Tzvetan Todorov

d)

Leni Riefenstahl

6.

Why did Cinema Verite become so popular?

a)

Filmmakers are inquisitive and wanted to produce fly on the wall documentaries

b)

Smaller, handheld cameras and synchronized sound to film events made it easier to create documentaries

c)

Larger cameras and sound tracks made documentary more immersive

d)

filmmakers wanted to imitate French new Wave stylistics and depict social realism

7.

Name a Michael Moore Documentary that we have looked at in lessons.

(a)  

8.

Who is Bill Nichols?

a)

The director of Night Mail

b)

The author who identified the different types of documentary

c)

The author who was a biographer of documentary making

d)

The director of Supersize Me

9.

Name another Asif Kapadia film apart from Amy

(a)  

10.

What did Watkins accuse the popular media of creating.

a)

Chloroform

b)

Duoform

c)

Monoform

d)

sixth form

11.

What does Kapadia call his style of filmmaking?

(a)  

12.

Which of the following are all documentary techniques used by Moore?

a)

Participation

Docudrama

Vox pops

b)

Animation

Talking heads

Participation

c)

Observational

Vox pop

Statistics

d)

Cinema Verite

non participatory

13.

What is both Watkins and Moore's work considered to be a form of ?

a)

True fiction

b)

infotainment

c)

Agit prop

d)

docudrama

14.

What is the literal meaning of vox pop?

a)

Poppy Voice

b)

Voice of the populace

c)

interview with people

d)

Voice of the crowd

15.

What year was Amy made?

(a)