Documentary Film Fictional Film Animated Film

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1. Documentary Film

A documentary film purports to present factual information about the world outside the film as a type of films. Documentaries present themselves as factually trustworthy. Moreover, Boardwell and Thompson 1997:44 states that there are two types of documentary films, they are: a. Compilation film: the film which is produced by assembling images from archival sources. b. Direct cinema: the film which is recording by an ongoing even ‘as it happens’, with minimal interference by the filmmaker.

2. Fictional Film

A fictional film presents imaginary beings, places, or events. Yet, if a film is fictional that does mean that it is completely unrelated to actuality. For one thing, not everything shown or implied by the fiction films needs to be imaginary. A typical fictional film stages as its events; they are designed, planned, and filmed. In a fictional film, the agents are portrayed or depicted by an intermediary, not photographed directly as a documentary.

3. Animated Film

Animated films are distinguished from live action by the unusual kinds of work that are done at the production stage. Animation films do not continuously filming an ongoing action in the real time, but they create a series of images by shooting one frame at a time. Boardwell and Thompson 1997:46-48 differentiate the animation into several distinct types, they are: 10 a. Drawn Animation: it is the most popular form of animation. In a traditionally- animated cartoon, each frame is drawn by hand. b. Cut-outs Animation: is a type of stop-motion animation produced by moving 2 dimensional pieces of material such as paper or cloth. c. Clay Animation: it is also called lasticine animation often abbreviated as claymation, uses figures made of clay or a similar malleable material to create stop-motion animation. d. Mood or Puppet Animation: it is typically involves stop-motion puppet figures interacting with each other in a constructed environment, in contrast to the real- world interaction in model animation. e. Pixilation: it is involves the use of live humans as stop motion characters. This allows for a number of surreal effects, including disappearances and reappearances, allowing people to appear to slide across the ground, and other such effects.

4. Experimental Film