NAME OF FILM:

DATE:

1. Whose voice(s) or point(s) of view does the film present?

2. How much information is carried by the visuals and how much by the sound (talk or narration)?

3. Does the narration complement or distract from the visuals?

4. How visual is the film? does it show things that would be difficult or impossible to describe in words?

5. What is the balance between close-ups and long shots? What does each contribute?

6. Are whole bodies shown? To what effect? (Is there too much or too little zooming?)

7. Are whole acts show? To what effect? (Are shots or sequences too short or too long?)

8. Are the anthropologists acknowledged? To what extent?

9. Does the film create empathy? Are there scenes that create antipathy?

10. How does the film establish generalizations or state abstract concepts?

11. Does the film contradict itself? If so, is this a strength or a weakness?

12. What was your intellectual and emotional response to the film?