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WorksheetsChapter 6: Documentaries
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Media projects such as movies or television shows that provide a factual record or report.
Narrative Films
Documentaries
Westerns
Found Footage Film
The study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture
Anthropology
Psychology
Sociology
Archaeology
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.
Narrative Films
Entertainment
News
Propoganda
This type of media will put out information used out of context to try to mislead and influence thinking.
Narrative Films
Entertainment
News
Propoganda
A fictionalized version of a supposedly true story that may adhere to the stylistic parameters of a documentary.
Docudrama
Newsreel
Metafiction
Propoganda
Fiction that is self-reflexive, commenting on its own existence,
or where characters seem aware they are in a movie or book.
Surrealism
Found footage Film
Metafiction
Expressionism
A style of storytelling that visualizes the workings of the subconscious mind.
Surrealism
Found footage Film
Metafiction
Expressionism
A style of media creation that attempts to reflect how the world feels more than to document it realistically.
Surrealism
Found footage Film
Metafiction
Expressionism
Finished fictional works such as "The Blair Witch Project" that are presented as if documentaries.
Docudrama
Found footage Film
Metafiction
Propoganda
New and experimental work that challenges the status quo or the way things are done.
Cinema vérité
Mise-en-scène
Avant-garde
Old-gaurd
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.
Cinema vérité
Mise-en-scène
Avant-garde
Old-gaurd
Developed during the 1910s and shown in movie theaters as the main method
of showing audiences the most exciting developments of the day
Docu Dramas
Actualities
Talkies
Newsreel
Which of these documentary films is the oldest?
Gimme Shelter
Nanook of the North
Roger And Me
The Civil War
American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially
successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North.
Robert Louis Stevenson
J. C. Boudreaux
Robert Flaherty
Richard Leacock
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).
Karamazov
Mario
Marx
Maysles
His 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line helped a wrongly convicted man, Randall Dale Adams be released from a life sentence.
Michael Moore
Errol Morris
Ken Burns
Robert Flaherty
His 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, became the highest-grossing documentary up until that time, grossing over $220 million
Michael Moore
Errol Morris
Ken Burns
Robert Flaherty
In his 2004 documentary he ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days, and then documented his weight and overall health during that period.
Michael Moore
Errol Morris
Ken Burns
Morgan Spurlock
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.
Michael Moore
Lev Kuleshov
Ken Burns
Errol Morris
In documentary filmmaking, what is the purpose of using B-roll footage?
To cover audio cuts
To show something referenced by interviewees while they are speaking
To introduce new characters
To create dramatic tension
