Etre et Avoir.
Etre et Avoir tells the story of six months in the life of a small primary school in the Auvergne, a predominantly rural part of France. It is a documentary film, primarily operating through a fly-on-the-wall mode, that is to say without any discernable interference from the film maker. The camera appears quite simply to sit alongside the children and observe them as they go about their daily business in the classroom. What I want to do in the lecture today is discuss the ways in which the film both conforms to this idea of simply offering a window on the world, and the ways in which it is clearly constructed, using the same kind of ordering of material we would find in a fiction film. I will be concentrating firstly on the ways in which the mise-en-scene and editing is ordered by the director: secondly, on the ways in which the film thirdly, on the scene where the primary school teacher does talk directly to camera, breaking with the fly-on-the wall-mode, and......
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