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.
Achievement standard
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5
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Annotations
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Annotation 1
Describes how the documentary’s soundtrack conveys emotions and engages an audience -
2
Annotation 2
Understands that music and song can identify a place -
3
Annotation 3
Describes how the use of music and sound can be varied for effect -
4
Annotation 4
Identifies the use of interviews to engage the audience with the ‘characters’ -
5
Annotation 5
Describes how interviews make the audience question points of view in the documentary
