Documentary Modes - Resources

Standards:
Students will analyze mass media for bias and use of persuasive tecniques and evaluate their impact (Communications GLE. 1.2.2)

Documentary Mode = The characteristics and traits that separate each of the different types of documentaries.

The ones we will be studying in class, and the styles that you will be choosing from, include:

Poetic/Avante Garde
Expository
Observational/”Fly on the Wall”
Cinema Verite/French Realism
Reflexive/Interactive
Performative
Participatory

Here are some resources for you to put together your informational sheets that you will share with the rest of your class.

You need to create a 1/4-1/2 page handout in language that you and your classmates can understand. It must include:

- a definition of your documentary mode
- characteristics, traits and elements of your documentary mode
- some examples from TV and movies that use your documentary mode

When you're done, attach it to an email and send it to michael.ko@highlineschools.org.

We will also present our work to our classmates.

Documentary Modes

Bowling for Columbine Study Guide (see page 3)

Wikipedia

Good summarization of a few more modes

Cinema Verite

More Cinema Verite

Good slideshow with definitions (scroll through to find info on expository, poetic, observational, performative, participatory, and reflexive modes)