Unit 20: Factual Production

Slumdog Millionaire Review

Hit British film Slum dog Millionaire has won the top prize at the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars including best director and best picture.

This film is about three poor childs who are Jamal (Dev Patel), Litika (Freida Pinto) and Salim Malik (Madhur Mittal) are found by Maman (Ankur Vikal), a gangster who tricks and then trains street children into becoming beggars. When Jamal, Salim, and Latika learn Maman is blinding children in order to make them more profitable as singing beggars, they flee by jumping onto a departing train. Latika catches up and takes Salim's hand, but Salim purposely lets go, and captured by the gangsters. Over the next few years, Salim and Jamal make a living travelling on top of trains, selling goods, picking pockets, working as dish washers, and pretending to be tour guides at the Taj Mahal, where they steal people's shoes.

Jamal a street child manages to get on to who wants to be a millionaire ? (Indian version) and he is a question away of wining the grand price of 20 million rupees. However before winning the 20 million Rupees question he is suspected of cheating because he is a simple "slum dog." They take him to the police station and ask him questions. They electrocute him and hit him to get the answers out of him but he still said " I never cheated ".

They put the video tape of Who wants to be a millionaire ? in front of him on the TV. He tells the police man his life story about how he knows the answer to the questions. Then he has flash backs of what the answers where. The police believes him an no charges are held agienst him. After this he returns to Who wants to be a millionaire ? to answers the 20 million rupees question. He was given the question and he couldn't answer it . He had one life line left he used it was phone a friend.
if you want to know the rest then you'll have to watch the movie.

The director of this film is Danny Boyle, Produced by Chrisitan Colson and writen by Simon Beaufoy

The budget for the film is $15 million and the gross revenue is £377,910,544

Running time is 120 minutes,
Language it is in is English and Hindi

Release date was 12 November 2008 ( United States ), 9 January 2009 ( United Kingdom)

Music by A.R.Rahman

Modes of documentary

Performativity:

This is where the film maker stars in the documentary about thoughts or opinions so try to get agree with the same thoughts maker is subjective aims to get audience to feel and experience.

Expository:

This is the film maker is the voice of god its an authoritative. Image and voice match interviews they support the argument of the film there is a conventual narrative structure Bme (beginning middle and end) it is what we call didactic- giving info this is the most classical comment type of documentary.

Observational:

Fly on the wall style to see what life really like camera works is important in this documentary not much speaking.

Interactive:

The film maker is involved, lots of different view points, lots of formal and informal question, a logical development to the argument to the argument, at the end the audience s left to decide what there opinion is.

My mind map on Does 4 lions glamorise terrorism

Proposal (Does 4 lions glamorise terrorism)

I think i should do this film because i want to show people that this film has glamorise terror.

The cons of the film is that i will not be able is to get the produce and wright of the film in to interview. I will need to have lots of information of the film and how many incidents of terror have been done after the film. Plus how many incidents have been done at that time of year but 2 or 3 years ago.

The pros of the films are that all the reacherc i do will improve my grades

Propoasl

I think I should do this film because it is a good topic to do and it is interesting and engaging.

The cons of this film is, all the people that have Facebook will go against it this and it will be biased. Plus it will be hard to conduct lots of people to interview and this will be bad because I will not have that much opinion to have a fair film.

The pros of this film is, it is engaging, interesting and every one has a Facebook account so it will be easy to interview them. Many people have made friends and got bullied in this school because of Facebook.