This weeks reading informed me on the different ways documentary film relates and interacts with its viewer/audience when lists and categories are used. Here are some quotes/statements front the reading that I found fascinating and/or helpful:
‘Certain documentary projects use non-narrative form as a way to prompt dialogue between the spectator and the work. ‘ p. 137
‘As Kate Nash describes the form, particularly in relation to webdocs: “the temporal ordering of elements is less important than the comparisons and associations the user is invited to make between the documentary’s elements” (2012, p. 205).’
‘For Bordwell and Thompson: [a]ssociational formal systems suggest ideas and expressive qualities by grouping images that may not have any immediate logical connection. But the very fact that the images and sounds are juxtaposed prods us to look for some connection — an association that binds them together. (2008, p. 363)’
‘In associational form relationships are created through conceptual alignment, emotional impact, visual similarities and territories of gesture. A poetic application of associational form creates relationships between elements that are more often felt than thought.’ P. 139
‘Often structured around unifying themes or existing categories and classifications, the list can also inspire thought that follows the structure of memory, impulse and flashes of association.’ P. 141
‘It is an emergent structure that is only revealed as users work their way through a site, exploring originating material, user generated content and perhaps adding their own contributions.’ P. 142