Analysis: Contact
Summary of task
Students studied the communicative power of technical elements used in Media Arts as part of a unit of work on the documentary Contact (2009) by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler. They explored and analysed the technical elements of voice-over, music, sound effects and textual techniques in the documentary. They wrote analytical paragraphs as part of an assessment during the 10-week unit. They also explored ethical and subjective viewpoints in response to the documentary. They later used the techniques they had explored in the making of their own short documentaries for a school audience.
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Annotations
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Annotation 1
Identifies interview as a media convention used in the documentary -
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Annotation 2
Defines the media convention of interview -
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Annotation 3
Explains a benefit of using an interview -
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Uses a specific example of interview from the documentary -
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Understands that interview can give perspectives about the past -
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Identifies the technical element of music used in the documentary -
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Annotation 7
Explains that music can be used to evoke emotions -
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Annotation 8
Gives a specific example to show how music is used to show contrast between cultures in the documentary -
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Annotation 9
Uses a specific example of how music can further communicate emotional content -
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Annotation 10
Analyses the symbolic meaning of music -
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Annotation 11
Identifies the technical element of archival footage used in the documentary -
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Annotation 12
Defines the technical element of archival footage -
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Explains that voice-over gives extra information to the audience -
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Uses a specific example of archival footage -
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Analyses the effects of archival footage in the documentary -
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Annotation 16
Asserts that technical elements work together to engage an audience in the documentary
