Documentarians
- 1. Popular Documentarians And their styles
- 2. Michael Moore • Michael Moore • Born April 23 1954, Flint Michigan • Filmmaker, author, social critic, political activist • Films: Bowling For Columbine, Fahrenheit 911 , Sicko
- 3. Michael appears in his films as an interviewer of the other characters in the film. He is also the narrator throughout the film.
- 4. • Moore’s signature style is his use of montage. • This can be seen in Moore’s critically acclaimed film ‘Bowling for columbine’ Moore uses montage of events that the United State had committed throughout the years and uses the song “What a Wonderful World” as an irony to show how bad the United States have become. Style of Moore
- 5. David Attenborough • Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster and naturalist, best known for writing and presenting the ‘life’ series which formed a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on the planet.
- 6. Style of Attenborough • Attenborough’s distinct style is both his informative nature but also his narrating voice itself. He often tells the viewer what is happening on the screen in a similar way to telling a story. This particular style captures audiences in the same way it would to young children.
- 7. Adam Curtis • Martin Adam John Curtis, better known as Adam Curtis, is an English documentary filmmaker. Curtis says that his favorite theme is "power and how it works in society", and his works explore areas of sociology, philosophy and political History.
- 8. Style of Curtis • Curtis is well known for taking complex events and making them simple for an audience, in his words 'I try to make the complexity and chaos intelligible’. • His expository documentaries have caused outrage in the past as they usually seem to touch on sensitive subjects.
- 9. Nick Broomfield • Nicholas "Nick" Broomfield (born 30 January 1948) is an English documentary filmmaker.
- 10. Style of Broomfield • Broomfield’s reflexive style of documentary has been influential to the film industry and is now adopted by many separate filmmakers. • in Driving Me Crazy (1988), after several arguments regarding the budget and nature of the film, he decided that he would make the documentary only if he could experiment by filming the very process of making the film. This included the arguments, the failed interviews and the general failures.
- 11. Ken Burns • Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker and documentary maker.
- 12. Style of Burns • Burns is widely known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentaries. • Burns often gives life to still photographs by slowly zooming in on subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. This technique, possible in many professional and home software applications, is termed "The Ken Burns effect” on all of Apple’s filmmaking software.