Bart Layton’s THE IMPOSTER By Harry Cawthorne
Poetic ■ The Poetic Mode is a more artistic and expressive as it explores associations between objects , images and patterns. ■ Sacrifices typical conventions like continuity editing and a situated Time & Space. ■ Usually very cinematic and visually pleasing. ■ An example of this is Gravity a Poetic Documentary on YouTube.
Expository ■ A typical documentary emphasising verbal commentary with use of a narrator. ■ Directly addressing the viewer with titles or voices that propose a perspective, advance an argument or recount history. ■ Usually Associated with Television News Programming. ■ An Example of this is BBC’s Reggie Yates Race Riot USA
Observational ■ ‘Window on the World’ ■ Observes aspects of the historical world as they happen. ■ Typically have no voice-over commentary, no supplementary music or sound, no intertitles, no historical re-enactments and no interviews. ■ Actors often behave as if no film crew are present. ■ An example of this would be Armadillo (2010)
Reflexive ■ Spectators is the focus of the attention ■ Documentaries in this mode set out to re-adjust the assumptions and expectations of its audience. ■ Both of these rely on techniques that attempt to jar us, and sever our engagement with the film so that we are forced to think about filmmaking as a construct ■ An Example of this is BBC’s Louis Theroux- America’s Medicated Kids
Participatory ■ Involves an interview between filmmaker and the subject. ■ Also involves some participation from the filmmaker as well as social actors , this gives the audience a sense of what it is like for the filmmaker to be in a given situation and how that situation alters as a result. ■ An Example of this would be Bowling For Columbine.
Performative ■ filmmaker as participant. ■ Performative mode of documentary raises questions about what knowledge is. ■ It stresses the emotional complexity of experience from the perspective of the filmmaker. ■ Stresses the tone and mood, more so than arguments and evidence. ■ Films in this mode primarily address the spectator. ■ An Example of this would be Supersize Me.
Which does THE IMPOSTER Fit In To? ■ I Think this particular film fits into the Expository Mode of Documentary as it includes the use of directly addressing the viewer with voices that propose a perspective. For example the talking heads or the people who are being interviewed in this film. This is used to make the film seem more realistic with real people with real perspectives. ■ https://youtu.be/8VtO5vgfBfA ■ It is also a Expository Mode of Documentary because it recounts history throughout using cinematic re-enactments. For example when telling the story of the 13 year old boy’s disappearance. ■ https://youtu.be/FNZjno3FXPM
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