Cinma vrit was a ground breaking style of documentary storytelling. The style was known as truthful cinema. D.A. Pennebaker famed filmmaker pioneered the style and at the time was thought to be useless because it didnt inform the audience in the traditional documentary style.
Cinma vrit is known as truthful cinema. While watching the film in class how does this style differ from Ken Burns/historical styles of documentary filmmaking? Does the film still tell a story? If so how?
If you were to produce a Cinma vrit style documentary what writing would be important to do for the project? Would this writing be done before production or post? Explain for me where the writing would occur.
After watching the film in class what emotions are evoked form this style? How is this style of documentary different when it comes to emotion?
In a reflective response overall what are your thoughts of this style of documentary? Does it still actively reach its audience effectively? Or not? Give me or perspective or the other.
