Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore

Fahrenheit 9/11 is an American documentary which was released in 2004. Michael Moore is the film maker and also stars in the film.

-At the beginning of the documentary there is an introduction of the topic, which helps explain to the viewers what the film is about.

-In this film there is archive footage used whith news reports and newspapers.

-Theres a voice of god at the beginning of the documentary.

-At the start it talks about what happens before the 9/11 disaster.

-Comedic music is used at the beginning.

- The tone changes when they begin to talk about the 9/11 disaster - it becomes serious.

- Different types of interviews are shown - some formal, others informal - showing the change in tone.

- Hand held cameras are used for some clips - they are used for following the action and they produce shaky shots. 

- Comedic music is used through out, when George Bush is the main subject - This makes George Bush look like a joke, showing he is not respected. 

- The film becomes a participatory because Michael Moore almost becomes a character. 

- Comedic narration is used to make George Bush seem humorous. 

- Michael Moore is shown in front of the camera when he is interviewing a women, showing he has a strong connection with the subject and interviwee. 

- The voiceover goes against what George Bush says - making a joke out of him.

Effect on the audience:

- George Bush is put across to the audience that he is a fool and a joke, which is shown by the comedic country and western music, also with the comedic narrator making a joke out of his speaches. 

-Archive footage is used against him and his ways of running the country. Making him seem like a bad president to the audience. It almost chooses the audiences opinion on what they should think, making it quite biased. 

- It's a light hearted view on a serious issue. Although it becomes serious and emotional when the 9/11 disaster is explained - change in tone.

Editing:

- Some clips are slowed down during the explanation of the 9/11 disaster which creates emotion.

- The titles are shown later on in the film.

- Jump cuts.

- Voiceover - usually comedic. 

                                       
                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zf2nCiBJLo 
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                                     This is the trailer for Fahrenheit 9/11

During class we watched 6 documentaries and this is my analysis of each documentary.

UK Documentaries

                             'One Born Every Minute'

'One Born Every Minute' is an English documentary which exlpores the labour ward of a maternity hospital. It shows the amazing journey that women go through during their pregnancy and labour. 40 cameras are placed in the maternity ward to capture those special moments. This documentary helps to inform the audience of what pragnancy and labour is like.

This is an observational documentary as the camera follows a person as the events unfold. 'One Born Every Minute' shares the womens most special moment with the audience, creating an emotional documentary. This documentary will be mostly watched by women as this is what most go through, so it can be useful and factual for those women.      

'Supersize vs Superskinny'



'Supersize vs Superskinny' is a UK documentary which trys to help two people reach a healthy weight. Two people are put in a house together, one is extremely underweight and the other is over weight. They swap their very different diets with each other to see it they can reach a healthy weight. It is a very hard and emotional process for them both, which makes this documentary emotional for the audeince.

It also informs the audience that they should eat healthy otherwise they too could become an unhealthy weight. This documentary is also a observational type because it follows the two people as they go through their eating plans and try to reach their healthy weight. 

This is a clip from 'Supersize vs Superskinny':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2P7eo2EON8&feature=relmfu 

U.S Documentaries

'Super Size Me'

'Super Size Me' is an American documentary, which was released in 2004. It was produced by Morgan Spurlock, who also starred in the documentary. This documentary explores McDonalds fast food chain and how it effects the human body when eated in vast amounts. To show this 'Morgan Spurlock' puts himself through 30 days of eating nothing but McDonalds fast food.






This is the opening to the film 'Super Size Me'. It gives facts and figures on America and it's fast food addiction. And gives an introduction on what the film is all about.

'9/11' 

'9/11' is an American documentary film, which was released in 2002. It was directed by Jules Naudet, Gédéon Naudet and James Hanlon. The film is all about the events that happened on September 11th. The awful truth about what happened that life changing day.  

Ross Kemp

Ross Kemp was born on 21st July 1964 in Barking England. He is a broadcaster, actor, author, journalist. He is also a 'British Academy Television Awards' winner.
Before he became well known he a made a TV commercial for a kellogg's cereal. His first major television appearence that he first got noticed in was Emmerdale in 1986. He was also in Eastenders in Februray1990.

He produced the award winning TV series 'Ross Kemp on Gangs' where he interviewed gang members it was broadcasted in 2006. He also produced:

Ross Kemp: The Blue House Warriors
Ross Kemp: Battle For The Amazon

Ross Kemp: Extreme World

Ross Kemp: Middle East
Ross Kemp in Afghanistan.

elephant documentary

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This presentation is showing how we would make a documentary. We had to make it an observational and participatory documentary. We chose to make a documentary on elephants for participatory and observational documentary because we could follow the action with a hand held camera, involve ourselves(film maker) in the documentary as we could feed the elephants and we could do informal interviews with the park keepers, as well as many other techniques that makes it this type of documentary. We were inspired by the film 'March Of The Penguins' because it is also an observational documentary. Loong takes dominate similar to what we will do in our documentary as it follows the animals as they go about their every day lives. Also 'March Of The Penguins' incorporates a voiceover which explains what is going on in the clip and information on the animals which informs the viewer, we aso have decided to have a voiceover in our documentary.          

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)

This was Nick Broomfield's second documentary on Aileen Carol Wuornos, who is a highway prostitute who was executed in 2002, because she killed 7 men in Florida.

The film release date was: 21 November 2003.

Run time: 90 minutes.

Awards:

-He won the Amnesty International - DOEN Award at Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.

-And nominated for 3 other awards.

Reviews:

- 'Broomfield does not pretend to be totally fair and unbiased in his presentation of the case. He is clearly sympathetic to Aileen and is not shy about voicing his own opposition to the death penalty'.

-'Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) has to be Nick Broomfield's best film to date'.

Critics:

- The New York Times: 'an absorbing film, partly because its subject exudes a scary charisma'.

- Rolling Stone review: 'this documentary from Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill is shocking and indispensable viewing'.

Nick Broomfield

Nick broomfield presentation

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observational documentaries powerpoint

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These are the video clips which are linked to the hyperlinks in my presentation. One video is 'Peter Andre the Next Chapter' and the other 'What Katie Did Next'.
Both videos contain strong language.