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Data Processing and Analysis Guide

The document discusses different modes of documentary filmmaking including poetic, expository, observational, reflexive, participatory, and performative modes. It provides examples of four documentary films - Let It Be, Stone Dream, Citizen Hong Kong, and an unnamed Australian film. For each film, it analyzes the documentary mode used and discusses how formal elements like shots, music, and narration create different effects and relate to the overall movie. Social actor narration is highlighted as adding understanding in some cases.

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Data Processing and Analysis Guide

The document discusses different modes of documentary filmmaking including poetic, expository, observational, reflexive, participatory, and performative modes. It provides examples of four documentary films - Let It Be, Stone Dream, Citizen Hong Kong, and an unnamed Australian film. For each film, it analyzes the documentary mode used and discusses how formal elements like shots, music, and narration create different effects and relate to the overall movie. Social actor narration is highlighted as adding understanding in some cases.

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Documentaries - Wish-fulfillment - Social representation Documentaries contain tension between specific and general, between abstract and concrete.

Debated concepts and contested issues- two things documentaries routinely address. Documentary is about the effort to convince, persuade, etc a particular view of the actual world. Rhetoric (oratory) - Legislative or deliberative- encouraging some sort of public action - Judicial or historical- evaluating or justifying previous actions - Ceremonial or panegyric- praising or blaming people and their accomplishments

Asian films mention family often. Chinese trait that shows through in films, even unintentionally. Certain things are included in films that make them Chinese ex. the rural shot of the water buffalo. Branding- visual credibility. Using some theme or trope. (lights in hong kong, temples, burning incense, family dinner, rice fields) Screened films fall in past 20 years, except.. Man with a movie camera- early 20th century Plow that broke the plains- post depression 30s Lost in translation problem Selective subtitles- they don t subtitle the Japanese song lyrics, for effect.

Name of film Director Documentary mode (include evidence) - Links to summaries of different modes Effect of formal and modal elements- what is the effect created by these clips ? Four clips. Each one shown three times. How clip relates to movie ?

Examples: Let it Be Yan lanquan, zhuang yizeng Poetic mode- slow motion shots, close ups, silhouettes funeral pyre their way of life is dying out. Familiar music toward the end is comforting Contrast between his song and the scene Narration about WTO Juxtaposition Stone Dream Hu Tai Li Expository mode- narration of history. Observational mode- filmmaker goes from voice of god narration, to social actor narration. Cheery music for the panning shot.

Narrated by the filmmaker, but switches to the old village man. More credibility Giving background information on the characters. Taiwanese aboriginal tribes represented. Social actor narration adds layer to understanding Citizen Hong Kong Ruby Yang Reflexive mode- in giving the social actors the camera, the social actors become filmmakers. Attention drawn with idea of filmmaker actively filming herself. Participatory mode- the filmmaker immerses herself into their lives for a whole year. Performative mode- She partakes in their lifestyle, they are filming themselves. The filmmaker makes an appearance on screen. They are performing what it means to not have a culture. An abundance of culture can also be no culture. Like a home video, casual setting. The Australian girl shows us her friends Narration is entirely given to the social actors. Interview between Australian girl and her friend. Discussing chineseness Feeling of close camaraderie. They are real. Construction of narrative with images constructed by social actors.

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