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Movie Narrative Structure

Documentaries are a form of movie media known as a nonnarrative formal system. Breaking the system down into smaller categories, four groups emerge (categorical, associational, rhetorical, and abstract). Focusing on the associational and rhetorical style will help to analyze the documentaries Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov), Roger and Me (Michael Moore), The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris) and Black Is Black Ain't (Marlon Riggs).
The associational formal system lends itself to the Soviet montage school of editing. Instead of using a 'straightforward' image to convey a topic this system is more about juxtaposing various images that may not directly communicate the director's vision. ...

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film becomes a celebration of the documentary filmmaker's power to control our perception of reality by means of editing and special effects (Bordwell 416). Using various images that may not be normally grouped together Vertov hoped to show how everyday actions could be applied to filmmaking. For example:
One brief segment shows the camera lens focusing and then a blurry shot of flowers coming into sharp focus. This is followed immediately by a camera juxtaposition rapidly intercutting two elements: a women's fluttering eyelids as she dries her face off with a towel, and a set of venetian blinds opening and closing. Finally another shot shows the camera lens with a diaphragm closing and opening. A human eye is like a venetian blinds, the lens is like an eye- all can open and close, admitting or keeping out light (Bordwell 417).
The rhetorical style uses various visual strategies and techniques to create an argument about something. Four basic characteristics of this type of ...

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Added: 4/17/2007 11:19:36 AM
Category: English
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