English : Documentaries

Define Tragedy

A play by Shakespeare which includes very sad occurrences for main characters. The main characters may be affected by fate and also strong feelings like hate

What are the types of love?

Courtly, True Love, Physical, Spiritual, Platonic, Contractual, Platonic

How does Romeo deal with love or hate?

He loves the idea of love, to him it is a driving force

How does Juliet deal with love or hate?

She is completely in love, and thinks loyalty is apart of love.

What is a metaphor?

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

What is a soliloquy

an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

Write a quote

My only love sprung from my only hate

What are the expectations of documentaries?

Viewers expect to be told real things about the real world.

What is the purpose of a documentary

To record important events, to inform viewers about a topic, to convey particular opinions, to create public awareness and/or raise awareness, to create social change

What are the impacts on Social Media?

• Social media can cause negative effects on people’s mental health 

• big social media companies manipulate users by using algorithms that encourage addiction to their platforms

• Suicide

• Addiction

• Cyberbullying

• Invasion of privacy (how platforms harvest personal data to target users with ads)

What are the documentary features?

• Actuality/archival/reconstructed footage

• Non-diegetic/diegetic sounds

• Voice over/narration

• Written codes (subtitles, labels and graphics)

• Sequence

• Focaliser

• Montage

• Camera shots and angles

• Location shots

• Interviews

Revise film techniques and symbolism

• Narration

• archival footage

• Actuality footage

• Angles and camera shots

• Interviews

What are the 3 main goals of tech companies?

Advertisement, Growth and Engagement

DESCRIBE and explain how this scene effectively uses three documentary features to communicate the film’s purpose to the audience ( DESCRIBE )

In the Social Dilemma, the scene explains that tech companies are controlling what we see to keep us addicted to social media.

Describe and explain how this scene effectively uses three documentary features to communicate the film’s purpose to the audience ( Explain 1 and connect )

Reconstructed footage has been used to show how companies are using user’s data to predict what we will do online. This use of re-constructed footage makes us think the model that was shown in the scene is really happening behind the screen.

Describe and explain how this scene effectively uses three documentary features to communicate the film’s purpose to the audience ( Explain 2 and connect )

Written codes like graphic animation was used to illustrate a ‘voodoo doll’ model of Ben’s online data use. The model represents the puppet-like human that is being controlled. This doll lacks emotion and response.

Describe and explain how this scene effectively uses three documentary features to communicate the film’s purpose to the audience ( Explain 3 and connect)

The interviews shown in the scene was used to create a sense of awareness about what the companies are doing with our data. The tech experts explains to us that companies are creating models that predict what people would do online.

Describe and explain how this scene effectively uses three documentary features to communicate the film’s purpose to the audience ( Connect to the film’s purpose )

The Social Dilemma’s purpose is to inform the user’s on how companies uses the audience’s personal data to keep people addicted to their screens, so companies can make more money. Re-constructed footage, Written codes like graphic animation and the interviews all shows has companies are using the audience’s personal data to keep them addicted to the screen. This creates the eerie reality of tech companies, which manipulate our data for their own goals.