2010年12月12日 星期日

Cinema Vérité: Defining the Moment


"Cinéma vérité (French: [sinema veʁite], "truthful cinema"; English: /ˈsɪnɨmə vɛrɨˈteɪ/) is a style of documentary filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camerawork, staged set-ups, and the use of the camera to provoke subjects. It is also known for taking a provocative stance toward its topics."- Wikipedia

Peter Wintonick focus on showing how important cinema verite this technique is towards the film culture by protraying different directors' interviews. The modern documentaries are representing the creative treatment of the actuality that invovled constructed settings. The focus on documentary impulse is rather important than purely representing the 100% reality. Once ones' have a shooting plan in mind, his thoughts and plannings are already interventing the whole events. 

Another popular term is "Docudrama" which,  is a documentary-style genre that features dramatized re-enactments of actual historical events in film, television, and staged theatre. 覃章柯的<二十四城記>就是近來的一個例子. Most of the cases are actually performed by actors with the actual historical experiences that ones have felt. Even though the whole story is >50 staged, the documentary impulse within still function as tool to figure out what they personally want to see.
Good to hear all those directors share their experiences and insights with clips from classic cinema verité documentaries. But really hope that more specific examples and analysis could be given from each interview so that we can compare the differences between them. 

A few reminders to myself,

-No conclusion should be made in the work.
-Audiences should identify the details by themselves.
-Wanting what they audieces got instead of telling them what to get.

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