CMN 650W Film Reviews Discussion

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Early works: "Man With A Movie Camera" (YouTube)/"Nanook" (YouTube)/"Drifter" (YouTube)

6 modes of documentary films

https://www.videomaker.com/article/c06/18423-six-primary-styles-of-documentary-production (Links to an external site.)


WWII: "Night and Fog" (Kanopy-UNH library)/“Triumph of the Will" (YouTube)
Note that you do not need to write reviews of the films this time, and as mentioned in class, you do not need to watch the films in their entirety.
1) For all five of the films we watched parts of in class, choose the best stylistic definition and tell me why you think the that definition fits the film best.
"Nanook of the North", "Man With a Movie Camera", "Drifters", "Triumph of the Will", "Night & Fog"
* Note that all five of these films have their own Wikipedia page, as well as myriad other reviews and summaries from which you can get more information about the film, if you choose to add some detail to your response.
https://www.videomaker.com/article/c06/18423-six-p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnographic_film


2) A) Discuss the innovations that filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl brought to her documentary, "Triumph of the Will", making specific reference to shots that we watched in class. The Wikipedia page for the film summarizes these innovations in the second paragraph on the page. Remember that if you quote the writing on the Wikipedia page word for word, you need to use a basic footnote and put the line(s) that you use in quotes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will
B) Compare and contrast three examples of the imagery you saw in "Triumph of the Will" and "Night & Fog" and discuss what you think the filmmakers were trying to convey to their audience through use of these images, and why you personally found each image compelling. You will be discussing a total of six images, i.e., one of your comparisons might be one of the shots above the clouds in the beginning of "Triumph of the Will", and the enormous pile of human hair in a Nazi concentration camp in "Night & Fog".

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Running Head: STYLISTIC DEFINITION OF FILM

Filming techniques
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STYLISTIC DEFINITION OF FILM

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“Night and Fog’s” film with the best filming technique
Styles in films are considered as the most recognizable techniques that filmmakers use
intending to give the value of their works. As such, many films are generated based on the
classical Hollywood narrative film style, whereby, specific filming guidelines are followed. In
this case, I find the film “Night and Fog” contains the best filming techniques such as imagery
and footage shots from the start of the movie to the end. Generated on Germanic folklore as seen
in Ian Resnas’s documentary, the film making techniques used in “Night and Fog” utilizes
imagery to make it more realistic and appealing to the viewers. For instance, the helmet fantasy
offered the clarity of vision to the wearers to become invisible to the enemy lines.
The use of pastoral images technique has been utilized throughout the film, which
gradually moves from serene to horrific pastoral images (Kelman 2003). The filming sequence
has been used at the start of the film, where it looks incredible ...


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