Enter The Deadline Often described as “character-driven” movies, in these, a loosely presented exploration of characters and relationships takes the place of relentlessly forward-moving dramatic tension.

Story is the subject matter or raw material of a narrative – the actions and events, usually perceived in terms of a beginning, middle, and end.

Chronology is the arrangement of events by time. In literature, most authors write their story as a sequence of events—when you use this method, arranging events in the order in which they occurred in time, it’s called putting them in “chronological order.” You can find chronologies of just about everything!

What Is an Expository Documentary? Expository documentaries set up a specific point of view or argument about a subject and a narrator often speaks directly to the viewer, emphasizing the relationship between the images presented on-screen and offering verbal commentary.

In 1991, American film critic and theoretician Bill Nichols proposed that there were six different modes of documentary—poetic, expository, reflexive, observational, performative, and participatory—each containing its own specific characteristics.

In the participatory mode, the audience is allowed to see or hear the filmmaker asking the questions. This establishes a clearer relationship between the filmmaker and the interview subject, while also giving the viewer a more “behind the scenes” look at how the filmmaker elicited the subject’s responses.

The Thin Blue Line (1988) – a documentary about Randall Adams who was convicted and sentenced to a life imprisonment for the murder of a police officer. The film relies on the conventions of interactive documentary – interviews and confessions.

In July 2019, the “Thin Blue Line” American Flag was put up by residents of York, Maine, as a way to pay tribute to a local police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty decades ago.

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Flying the American flag upside down is considered by many, including those who have served our country in uniform, to be disrespectful. The U.S. Defense Department says the flag should only be flown upside down “to convey a sign of distress or great danger.”

In another compromise designed to overcome objections to annexation, the 1845 joint resolution that admitted Texas to the Union provided that Texas could be divided into as many as five states.