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    This document provides a worksheet for analyzing a documentary film. It includes steps for previewing the film by listing expected concepts, viewing the film and describing its physical qualities and content, and post-viewing analysis of the film's central message, bias, effectiveness, intended audience response, emotional and rational appeals, and unanswered questions.

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    This document provides a worksheet for analyzing a documentary film. It includes steps for previewing the film by listing expected concepts, viewing the film and describing its physical qualities and content, and post-viewing analysis of the film's central message, bias, effectiveness, intended audience response, emotional and rational appeals, and unanswered questions.

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    Danna Barredo
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    Name__________________________________ Period________

    Documentary Film Analysis Worksheet

    Step 1. Pre-viewing

    Title of Film:

    Date Released: 2012

    What do you think you will see in this motion picture? List three concepts or ideas
    that you might expect to see based on the title of the film or what you already know
    about this film.

    Concepts/Ideas

    1.

    2.

    3.

    Step 2. Viewing
    Type of documentary (check where applicable):

    __________ Advocacy for social concerns


    __________ Biography
    __________ Career Profile
    __________ Community History
    __________ Research/Factual
    __________ “How To”
    __________ Training/Orientation
    __________ Investigative
    __________ News/Special Events
    ___________Skits & Spoofs
    __________ Travel/tourism
    __________ Nature

    Physical qualities of the film: Describe all that apply.

    1. Music

    2. Live action

    3. Narration/voice Over:

    4. Background noise/Special effects

    5. Animation

    6. Color/Black and white

    7. Interviews (Who did the filmmaker interview and for what purpose?)
    8. Dramatizations

    9. Note how camera angles, lighting, music, narration, and/or editing contribute
    to creating an atmosphere in this film.

    10. What is the mood or tone of the film? What emotions does the film evoke in
    its viewers?

    Step 3. Post-viewing (or repeated viewing)

    1. Circle the things that you listed in the previewing activity that were validated
    by your viewing of the motion picture, then answer the following:
    2. What is/are the central message(s) of this documentary? Be specific. Use
    examples from the film to support your choice.

    3. Discuss the bias in the film (point of view of the filmmakers).

    4. Consider the effectiveness of the film in communicating its message. As a tool


    of communication, what are its strengths and weaknesses?

    5. How do you think the filmmakers wanted the audience to respond?


    6. Does this film appeal to the viewer's reason or emotion? Explain the role of
    each in this piece.

    7. How does it make you feel?

    8. Write a question to the filmmaker that is left unanswered by the motion


    picture.

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