Unpacking the Documentary - Reference and Workbook
Senior students LOVE documentaries! This editable and comprehensive resource about the convention of the documentary is perfect for enhancing their skills in analysis and discussion of this awesome genre! While this is a textbook and workbook in one for your students, it's also a great teacher guide!
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Note well:
- This resource is included in the Achievement Standard task for 3.9 Close Viewing – For Mature Audiences Only.
- ***Also included in our DISCOUNTED BUNDLE of Film Resources HERE***
- ***Also included in our DISCOUNTED BUNDLE of Genre Forms HERE***
This resource covers:
⭐ Key production techniques, then
⭐ Critical thinking around:
- ideas
- purpose and
- audience.
Need more details? Your resource includes:
❤️ a hyperlinked table of contents page which students can return to easily by clicking on the icons at the top right of any page (if using digitally).
❤️ An introduction – the popularity and pitfalls of the documentary
❤️ A brief history of the documentary
❤️ Types of documentaries
❤️ Conventions of documentaries including interviews, voice-over, actuality, re-enactment, captions, graphics and evidence
❤️ Structural components – including the ‘story’, exposition, characters, montage, editing, wallpaper technique and B-Roll
❤️ Camera work
❤️ Sound (briefly)
❤️ Positioning yourself as a (critically thinking) viewer
❤️ Truth (or lack thereof)
❤️ Main idea
❤️ Purpose
Formats:
- Microsoft PowerPoint (resized as an A4 document). This means:
- It's completely editable!
- t can be printed to share with students in hard copy.
- It can be uploaded to your Google Drive - Google Classroom.
Sharing/Copying this Resource
Share with your current colleagues and as many students as you like - all at the school you are/were in at the time of purchase. Please don't share with your mates down the road. Please don't use this at your new school.