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- Cinema verité
- Perception that filmmaker is a fly on the wall
- Filmmaker is attempting to make us think they just “let life happen” in front of the lens
- Sometimes even include boom operator in the frame, or camera operator in a mirror to remind us “this is really happening”
- Journalistic style
- Voice of authority (with the backing of an organization) that appears in the piece
- Frontline or other news shows do it
- Reflexive style
- I’m going to put myself in the film and provoke the action (Michael moore)
- At least they’re being up front about how they’re manipulating the situation
- Interview style
- Ken Burns style…interviewing historians or whoever to tell us the story
- Fog of War is a good example
- Re-enactment
- History Channel style stuff with actors / animation / P.O.V. shooting