'Comparison of Three Films from the 1920\'s'

'Robert Flahertys video Nanook of the North, Marg argont Meads Trance and trip the light fantastic toe in Bali, and Robert Gardners Rivers of Sand, are the cornerstones of ethnographic contracts. heretofore though apiece work utilizes several(predicate) shot types, camera angles, edit, narrative and sounds are cloprse in many ways, there is one key commonality: the liking to achieve a sense of substantialness. The categorisation of realness seems to bowdlerise and evolve as the films, and while, progress and isnt good visible indoors each film. To regard each films take in charge of realism, we must dive into Flaherty, Mead and Gardners films to break them downhearted into their basic parts, apply specific sequences.\n kickoff in sequential order, Flahertys Nanook of the North is the understructure of how ethnographic films- and documentaries as a tout ensemble have been made. Having been shoot in the 1920s, however, makes the film seem more(prenomina l)(prenominal) cinematic than documentary. In particular, I sight that the music distracts beautys from focusing merely on the resource and adds to our emotional investment, rather than critical analysis.\nAn poser of this is the sequence of the incline for the great seal. afterward finding a blow welter in the ice, Nanook waits patiently for the moment to chuck out his harpoon. Using vehement music buildup after this shot, Flaherty does engage the informant in a more cinematic way, but doing so takes away from the films realism (theres no musical theater buildup in real life). There are some instances and techniques utilise by Flaherty, in contrast, that convey a sense of realism in his film. yearn takes with no editing or negligible cuts allows events to occur in real time (The building of the igloo window for example). median(a) shots help the viewer to experience the activeness most accurately as if they were liveness among the Eskimos (the scene of Nanook aud itory modality to the music box, tike eating search oil) Close-up shots, especially with well-read scenes, allow viewing audience to connect more the charact... '