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Chapter 6: Documentaries

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  • Media projects such as movies or television shows that provide a factual record or report.

a)

Narrative Films

b)

Documentaries

c)

Westerns

d)

Found Footage Film

2.
  • The study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture

a)

Anthropology

b)

Psychology

c)

Sociology

d)

Archaeology

3.
  • The goal of this type of media project is to report, or to make complicated stories involving multiple points of view easier for the general audience to understand, and to educate viewers about the facts of their world.

a)

Narrative Films

b)

Entertainment

c)

News

d)

Propoganda

4.

This type of media will put out information used out of context to try to mislead and influence thinking.

a)

Narrative Films

b)

Entertainment

c)

News

d)

Propoganda

5.

A fictionalized version of a supposedly true story that may adhere to the stylistic parameters of a documentary.

a)

Docudrama

b)

Newsreel

c)

Metafiction

d)

Propoganda

6.
  • Fiction that is self-reflexive, commenting on its own existence,

  • or where characters seem aware they are in a movie or book.

a)

Surrealism

b)

Found footage Film

c)

Metafiction

d)

Expressionism

7.
  • A style of storytelling that visualizes the workings of the subconscious mind.

a)

Surrealism

b)

Found footage Film

c)

Metafiction

d)

Expressionism

8.
  • A style of media creation that attempts to reflect how the world feels more than to document it realistically.

a)

Surrealism

b)

Found footage Film

c)

Metafiction

d)

Expressionism

9.
  • Finished fictional works such as "The Blair Witch Project" that are presented as if documentaries.

a)

Docudrama

b)

Found footage Film

c)

Metafiction

d)

Propoganda

10.
  • New and experimental work that challenges the status quo or the way things are done.

a)

Cinema vérité

b)

Mise-en-scène

c)

Avant-garde

d)

Old-gaurd

11.
  • Style of documentary uses the camera to reveal unaltered truths, letting the camera be

  • a fly on the wall, unobtrusive to the events it records.

a)

Cinema vérité

b)

Mise-en-scène

c)

Avant-garde

d)

Old-gaurd

12.
  • Developed during the 1910s and shown in movie theaters as the main method

  • of showing audiences the most exciting developments of the day

a)

Docu Dramas

b)

Actualities

c)

Talkies

d)

Newsreel

13.
  • Which of these documentary films is the oldest?

a)

Gimme Shelter

b)

Nanook of the North

c)

Roger And Me

d)

The Civil War

14.

American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially

successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North.

a)

Robert Louis Stevenson

b)

J. C. Boudreaux

c)

Robert Flaherty

d)

Richard Leacock

15.

The ________Brothers were known for their work in the Direct Cinema style, known for their films Salesman (1969),

Gimme Shelter (1970) and Grey Gardens (1975).

a)

Karamazov

b)

Mario

c)

Marx

d)

Maysles

16.

His 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line helped a wrongly convicted man, Randall Dale Adams be released from a life sentence.

a)

Michael Moore

b)

Errol Morris

c)

Ken Burns

d)

Robert Flaherty

17.

His 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, became the highest-grossing documentary up until that time, grossing over $220 million

a)

Michael Moore

b)

Errol Morris

c)

Ken Burns

d)

Robert Flaherty

18.

In his 2004 documentary he ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days, and then documented his weight and overall health during that period.

a)

Michael Moore

b)

Errol Morris

c)

Ken Burns

d)

Morgan Spurlock

19.

The "________ Effect” is a post production technique that uses still images where panning or zooming across the image, gave the impression that the camera is moving within the frame.

a)

Michael Moore

b)

Lev Kuleshov

c)

Ken Burns

d)

Errol Morris

20.

In documentary filmmaking, what is the purpose of using B-roll footage?

a)

To cover audio cuts

b)

To show something referenced by interviewees while they are speaking

c)

To introduce new characters

d)

To create dramatic tension