Week 3 - Task for today:modes of documentary films

The film was composed with features of expository mode and poetic mode. The expository features were bought out through messages from the captions, in which helped to argue and portray the different points of impact in explosion and how this reconfigured the field of object.

The use of visual imageries, background sound and texts to convey the message of the experimentation, touch upon poetic mode. As the film is not in its original state but was edited in such ways as adding sound, cutting frames, adding effects, etc; to create a poetic scene that gives emphasise on the message of the film. As mentioned by Bill Nichols in his book entitle Introduction to Documentary, poetic mode “...bears a close proximity to experimental...filmmaking”[1], in this case the experimentation of explosion.

The benefit that could be gain from using expository mode is that it aims to not just inform a point but to argue an idea, which in most cases presents a stronger message. The benefit of poetic mode is that it adds flavor to documentary film through its poetic features which better engages the viewers.

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[1] Bill Nichols, Introduction to Documentary (Indiana University Press, 2002), pp 33-34. Also available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=tFLMar9GsjQC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=MODES+OF+Documentary&source=web&ots=IlQ-fWcufN&sig=ptk0DVGrtoHtBtRj_phTXXmWeig&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA34,M1.