Week 5 Class Notes

Participatory mode:

• Appeared from the 1960's investigative reporter
• Directors voice

Was supposed to be a historical documentary

"This film through participatory doc gives us a sense of what the film makers life is like and how they relate to an actual situation-" (love life)

• Immerses the viewer into the room with the subject
• connect with him on a emotional level
• doc makes mistakes
• lighting allows us to connect to the director

Ross McElwee's life "what happens in front of the camera becomes an index of the nature of interaction between the filmmaker and the subject"

• Structure- disjointed, auteur, voice of god, somewhat chaotic

• Who financed the film? got money to make a film and didn't create the film he set out todo- it is a badly made film, but its a very successful film 1986- managed to place the camera in the middle of the action

• Beginning is expository- then disappears 
• Then directly listening to his voice over which is shows aspects of reflective mode 
• Takes his camera very close to the action- camera becomes a catalyst, he doesn't stop recording. 
• The cameras position and the way he treats the camera creates is as a subject . 
• Personal/viwing aspect you become so involved you want him to keep the camera on - Jean Rouch

• To prevoke the subject- to gain the information
• Doc representation of reality- 
• What we film, what we edit the more you can support your film though recherché the more credible your film will be
• New light weight camera, catch life unaware by observing it
• Camera pushes out the truth