Eduqas A-Level Film Studies documentary film overview quiz quiz

Section B

Section A

Section C

Section D

Watching events with minimal intervention

A voice-over commentary that explains and argues

The filmmaker drawing attention to the film's construction

A purely subjective, emotional account

A heavy authoritative voice-over commentary that explains and argues over the top of the images

The filmmaker interviewing subjects directly on screen and shaping the film around their testimony

Appearing to watch events unfold with minimal intervention (fly on the wall)

Foregrounding the filmmaker's own emotions and subjective, personal experience of the subject

Memorise a body of abstract academic film theory and reproduce it accurately in the examination

Compare two different documentaries directly against each other and reach an overall judgement

Write and produce your own short documentary film as the practical element of this section

Apply a documentary maker's stated theory of practice to the set documentary

Whether documentary records reality objectively or is always constructed

Whether documentaries can be as entertaining and engaging for an audience as fiction films are

Whether documentaries should be shot in colour rather than black and white to seem more truthful

Whether documentaries can make money at the box office in the way that mainstream features do

Whether documentaries should use computer-generated special effects to reconstruct past events

How digital technology has transformed how documentaries are made and seen

Whether documentary should be regarded as a serious art form or merely as factual reportage

Whether a documentary needs a fully written script prepared in advance before filming begins

Because they cost far more to produce than fiction films, raising questions about value for money

Because they tend to be much longer than fiction films, demanding more of the viewer's attention

Because they represent real people and events

Because they use no professional actors, so the people on screen are untrained and inexperienced

Yes, always one mode only

Only expository documentaries mix modes

Modes do not apply to documentary

No, most documentaries mix modes

It connects film form, the mode, a filmmaker's theory and the debate through close analysis

It is very long, since the more an answer writes the more synoptic connections it is taken to make

It avoids close analysis of film form altogether and concentrates only on the documentary's subject

It compares two different documentaries directly against each other rather than analysing one closely

In the abstract, as a set of general ethical rules that apply equally to every documentary film

Weighed in relation to the set film's method and form

Left out entirely, since ethical questions belong to debate and not to the analysis of film form

Only in the introduction, briefly, before the answer moves on to the close analysis of the film