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Bart Laytons THE IMPOSTER By Harry Cawthorne Poetic The Poetic Mode is a more artistic and expressive as it explores associations between objects , images and patterns. Sacrifices typical conventions like continuity editing and a
By Harry Cawthorne
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■ The Poetic Mode is a more artistic and expressive as it explores associations between objects , images and patterns. ■ Sacrifices typical conventions like continuity editing and a situated Time & Space. ■ Usually very cinematic and visually pleasing. ■ An example of this is Gravity a Poetic Documentary on YouTube.
■ A typical documentary emphasising verbal commentary with use of a narrator. ■ Directly addressing the viewer with titles or voices that propose a perspective, advance an argument or recount history. ■ Usually Associated with Television News Programming. ■ An Example of this is BBC’s Reggie Yates Race Riot USA
■ ‘Window on the World’ ■ Observes aspects of the historical world as they happen. ■ Typically have no voice-over commentary, no supplementary music or sound, no intertitles, no historical re-enactments and no interviews. ■ Actors often behave as if no film crew are present. ■ An example of this would be Armadillo (2010)
■ Spectators is the focus of the attention ■ Documentaries in this mode set out to re-adjust the assumptions and expectations of its audience. ■ Both of these rely on techniques that attempt to jar us, and sever our engagement with the film so that we are forced to think about filmmaking as a construct ■ An Example of this is BBC’s Louis Theroux- America’s Medicated Kids
■ Involves an interview between filmmaker and the subject. ■ Also involves some participation from the filmmaker as well as social actors , this gives the audience a sense of what it is like for the filmmaker to be in a given situation and how that situation alters as a result. ■ An Example of this would be Bowling For Columbine.
■ filmmaker as participant. ■ Performative mode of documentary raises questions about what knowledge is. ■ It stresses the emotional complexity of experience from the perspective of the filmmaker. ■ Stresses the tone and mood, more so than arguments and evidence. ■ Films in this mode primarily address the spectator. ■ An Example of this would be Supersize Me.
■ I Think this particular film fits into the Expository Mode of Documentary as it includes the use of directly addressing the viewer with voices that propose a
in this film. This is used to make the film seem more realistic with real people with real perspectives. ■ https://youtu.be/8VtO5vgfBfA ■ It is also a Expository Mode of Documentary because it recounts history throughout using cinematic re-enactments. For example when telling the story of the 13 year old boy’s disappearance. ■ https://youtu.be/FNZjno3FXPM