Title:

Erik Barnouw and Stella Bruzzi Ideologies

Tuesday 3rd March 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.

• YOU WILL explore HOW 2 ideologies YOU MUST know for the exam are applicable to ‘9/11’.

• 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.

Starter – Re-cap Prior Learning

YOU MUST establish which statement(s) match up with the theorists.

Bill Nichols (2001)

John Grierson

Helen Dugdale – (Media Magazine Sept. 2003)

Michael Moore

Stella Bruzzi (2000)

“I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained”

‘the recording of events that occur whether or not the cameras are present’

“Documentary film practice is an arena in which things change”

“Fiction films are trying to imitate reality, while documentaries are reality”

Documentary is ‘the creative treatment of actuality’

Bill Nichols (2001)

John Grierson

Helen Dugdale – (Media Magazine Sept. 2003)

Michael Moore

Stella Bruzzi (2000)

“I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained”

‘the recording of events that occur whether or not the cameras are present’

“Documentary film practice is an arena in which things change”

“Fiction films are trying to imitate reality, while documentaries are reality”

Documentary is ‘the creative treatment of actuality’

FEEDBACK

FM4 – Section BEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS

HOW do the examples below “Cinematically” engage the spectator? (June 2013 question Focus)

FM4 – Section B

Erik Barnouw (1993) "The documentarist, like any communicator in any medium, makes endless choices".

WHAT are some of the ‘choices’ (Barnouw – 1993) that Jules & Gedeon made in this documentary?

The narrative and other technical features (sound, editing, mise-en-scene, camera - obtrusive? unobtrusive?) is "an expression of his point of view, whether he realises it or not, whether he acknowledges it or not" (Barnouw – 1993)

Should they have continued?

Stella Bruzzi (2000) states that Barnouw's ideology connotes:- "..the minute an individual becomes involved in the representation of reality, the integrity of that reality is irretrievably lost".

The narrative and other technical features (sound, editing, mise-en-scene, camera - obtrusive? unobtrusive?) is "an expression of his point of view, whether he realises it or not, whether he acknowledges it or not" (Barnouw – 1993)

WHAT are some of the examples in the text where the spectator would question the ‘integrity’ (Bruzzi – 2000) of the reality as a result of Jules & presence?

FM4 – Section B

You are going to watch x2 scenes that conform to and/or challenge their views from ‘9/11’

Using the worksheet provided, YOU MUST establish HOW certain examples conform to and/or challenge their views.

Extension – YOU COULD consider whether these ideologies apply to other examples from the text.

Task 1) – 10 minutes

Stella Bruzzi (2000)

Erik Barnouw (1993)

and

FEEDBACK

FM4 – Section B

YOU MUST pick ONE of the theorists we have covered today and write a PEA Paragraph in relation to ONE Example from ‘9/11’.

YOU SHOULD be prepared to Feedback your PEA Paragraph IF you receive a

Yellow Card (Post-It) from me!

Task 2) 5 minutes

FEEDBACK

What have you learnt?

YOU MUST fill in the blanks for the Theory OR Theorists we have covered today.

Extension – YOU COULD be asked to elaborate on HOW they apply to ‘9/11’

What have you learnt?

"The documentarist, like any communicator in any m_____m, makes endless c_____”ediu hoices

"..the minute an individual becomes i________d in the r___________n of reality, the i________y of that reality is irretrievably l___t"

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Homework

Complete a ‘9/11’ Mind-Map for Revision OR Purchase a Key Ring for Revision – See: http://chinesehacks.com/blog/study/make-your-own-word-card-key-ring-diy/ Due: 2 Lessons – L12