The other reading for this week was one that was talking about the different modes of the Documentary video.
- arose in around the 1920s - entertainment qualities of film distracting
- ‘voice-of-God’ commentary e.g. Night Mail (1936) - starts with a poem
- Commentary directed towards the viewer
- Most of the sound is typically nonsynchronous
- Editing generally serves to establish and maintain rhetorical continuity
- Viewer expects a logical cause/effect link between sequences
- The audience are aware of the filmmaker through the commentary
- focus on verbal commentary and an argumentative logic
- Often addresses the viewer directly (titles or voice) with a proposition of a perspective or an argument.
- Sometimes adopts a Voice-Of-God commentary (the speaker heard but never seen) or utilizes a voice-of-authority commentary (seen and heard)
- Relies heavily on logic carried by the spoken word
- Usually based around a solution to a problem or puzzle
- Nanook of the North is seen as the first documentary
- Sky – poetic, uses suspense in the same way as Flaherty
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