Entrance Activity

YOU MUST select and recall the key elements associated to this mode of documentary film making – DON’T RUB THIS LIST OUT!

Extension – YOU COULD talk about HOW they’re represented in the text.

Observational Mode (Nichols – 2001) of Documentary

Title:

9/11 – Key Scene Overview

Tuesday 24th February 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section B Specialist Study 2: Spectatorship Topics – Spectatorship

and Documentary

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• Your knowledge and understanding of the observational Mode will be developed.

• YOU WILL also consider the cross-pollination of other modes within the examples we analyse today.

• Review the learning.

AO1

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together and

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films.

HOW have Jules & Gedeon Naudet constructed this documentary?

Are there other enigma clues (Roland Barthes – 1975) like this in the lead up to September 11th?

FM4 – Section B

‘9/11’ (2002 – Jules & Gedeon Naudet)• “The accidental documentary”• 2 French Brothers filming a ‘Probie’ (Rookie) firefighter Tony Benetatos• September 11th 2001 – The shift in the focus of the documentary changed.

"They always say there is always a witness for history. I guess that day, we were chosen to be the witness."

- Jules Naudet

Observation v Fiction Film

Task 1) – 10 minutes

YOU MUST watch the 2 key scenes and complete the Questions on the worksheet provided.

FEEDBACK

Task 2) - 5 minutes Go onto the Public Drive and YOU MUST find a defining example of the Observational Mode of Documentary from the text: 

WHY?HOW

YOU SHOULD establish what scene it is and – through picking out relevant micro feature(s) establish WHY and HOW by recording them into your exercise books.

FEEDBACK

FM4 – Section BEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS

What does Jules Naudet’s Voice of god commentary ‘expose’ to the spectator in the lead up to the first plane hitting the WTC?

What have you learnt?

Revisit the list – YOU MUST add x2 new areas you have learnt today and x1 that you need to investigate further to extend your understanding.

Observational Mode (Nichols – 2001) of Documentary 

HomeworkAO4

Observational Mode – the recording of events as they happen through an unobtrusive camera.

Find x2 examples from the documentary – ONE FOR – ONE AGAINST – This Observational Mode convention

Due: Next Lesson – Thursday 26th February