This document provides an overview of a film studies lesson focusing on the ideologies of Erik Barnouw and Stella Bruzzi and how they apply to documentaries and the film "9/11". It introduces the aims of reviewing prior learning on these theorists and exploring how their views on documentary filmmaking can be seen in the film. Students are given examples to match with different theorists. The lesson then discusses exam board expectations around engaging spectators and examples from the film that conform to or challenge the views of Barnouw and Bruzzi around choices documentarians make and the integrity of reality. Students are tasked with analyzing scenes using worksheets and writing a paragraph analyzing an example using one theorist's views.

1. Title:
Erik Barnouw and Stella Bruzzi Ideologies
Tuesday 3rd March 2015
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Section B Specialist Study 2:
Spectatorship Topics – Spectatorship
and Documentary

2. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior
learning.
• YOU WILL explore HOW
2 ideologies YOU MUST
know for the exam are
applicable to ‘9/11’.
• Review the Learning.
AO1
Demonstrate knowledge and
understanding of film as an
audio-visual form of creative
expression together and
AO2
Apply knowledge and
understanding, including
some of the common critical
approaches that characterise
the subject, when exploring
and analysing films.

3. Starter –
Re-cap Prior Learning
YOU MUST establish which statement(s) match up with the theorists.

4. Bill Nichols (2001)
John Grierson
Helen Dugdale – (Media Magazine Sept. 2003)
Michael Moore
Stella Bruzzi (2000)
“I respect the fact that
people have worked hard all
week and want to go to the
movies on the weekend and
be entertained”
‘the recording of events
that occur whether or
not the cameras are
present’
“Documentary film
practice is an arena in
which things change”
“Fiction films are
trying to imitate
reality, while
documentaries are
reality”
Documentary is ‘the
creative treatment of
actuality’

5. Bill Nichols (2001)
John Grierson
Helen Dugdale – (Media Magazine Sept. 2003)
Michael Moore
Stella Bruzzi (2000)
“I respect the fact that
people have worked hard all
week and want to go to the
movies on the weekend and
be entertained”
‘the recording of events
that occur whether or
not the cameras are
present’
“Documentary film
practice is an arena in
which things change”
“Fiction films are
trying to imitate
reality, while
documentaries are
reality”
Documentary is ‘the
creative treatment of
actuality’

6. FEEDBACK

7. FM4 – Section B
EXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS
HOW do the examples below “Cinematically” engage
the spectator? (June 2013 question Focus)

8. FM4 – Section B
Erik Barnouw (1993)
"The documentarist, like any communicator in any medium, makes endless choices".
WHAT are some of the ‘choices’ (Barnouw – 1993) that Jules & Gedeon made in
this documentary?
The narrative and other technical features (sound, editing, mise-en-scene, camera -
obtrusive? unobtrusive?) is "an expression of his point of view, whether he realises it or
not, whether he acknowledges it or not" (Barnouw – 1993)
Should they have
continued?

9. Stella Bruzzi (2000) states that Barnouw's ideology connotes:-
"..the minute an individual becomes involved in the representation of reality, the
integrity of that reality is irretrievably lost".
The narrative and other technical features (sound, editing, mise-
en-scene, camera - obtrusive? unobtrusive?) is "an expression of
his point of view, whether he realises it or not, whether he
acknowledges it or not" (Barnouw – 1993)
WHAT are some of the examples in the text where the spectator would question
the ‘integrity’ (Bruzzi – 2000) of the reality as a result of Jules & presence?

10. FM4 – Section B
You are going to watch x2 scenes that
conform to and/or challenge their views
from ‘9/11’
Using the worksheet provided, YOU MUST
establish HOW certain examples conform to
and/or challenge their views.
Extension – YOU COULD consider whether
these ideologies apply to other examples
from the text.
Task 1) – 10 minutes
Stella Bruzzi (2000)
Erik Barnouw (1993)
and

11. FEEDBACK

12. FM4 – Section B
YOU MUST pick ONE of the theorists we
have covered today and write a PEA
Paragraph in relation to ONE Example
from ‘9/11’.
YOU SHOULD be prepared to Feedback
your PEA Paragraph IF you receive a
Yellow Card (Post-It) from me!
Task 2) 5 minutes

13. FEEDBACK

14. What have you learnt?
YOU MUST fill in the blanks for the Theory OR
Theorists we have covered today.
Extension – YOU COULD be asked to elaborate
on HOW they apply to ‘9/11’

15. What have you learnt?
"The documentarist, like any communicator in any m_____m, makes endless c_____”ediu hoices
"..the minute an individual becomes i________d in the r___________n of reality,
the i________y of that reality is irretrievably l___t"
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16. Homework
Complete a ‘9/11’ Mind-Map for Revision OR Purchase a
Key Ring for Revision –
See:
http://chinesehacks.com/blog/study/make-your-own-
word-card-key-ring-diy/
Due: 2 Lessons – L12