This third episode continues the cogeneration of dialogue about different video genre used in class and begins with a discussion of video designed to quickly gain the viewer's attention through humor; this video genre contrasts with the more serious authoritative style of David Attenborough documentaries.
After appearing as an articulate and authoritative guest on a TV documentary, he collaborated with James Morton on a number of books.
His three-part documentary series is an authoritative and entertaining narrative, not only presented by him, but written and directed as well – and he says he'd quite happily never perform again if he could spend the rest of his career directing.
The documentary shows factories breaking regulations and authoritative figures who speak frankly, revealing the scathing truth that rules are simply ignored and that punishment stunts growth and costs people jobs.
As Dan Engber and Stefan Fatsis note, "League of Denial" relies on some overcertainties about the science of concussions, and it employs some hoary documentary clichés minatory music, a narrator with a tense, authoritative baritone.
Of his numerous books, the most substantial were an authoritative biography of Handel (1984, revised 2007) enhanced by entertaining documentary material as well as the insights of a performer; Music at Court (1977); The Trio Sonata (1979); Haydn's Visits to England (1980); and Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (2005), all written in lucid and erudite prose.
In the case discussed in this paper the teacher chose a documentary style video, drawing on David Attenborough as an authoritative and knowledgeable communicator of scientific ideas, to promote the curriculum goal of scientific communication.
Rainer Rother, the author of an authoritative filmography published five years ago, points out that the closing sequence of Carl Junghans's documentary on the Winter Games — a slow-motion montage of ski jumpers — was shot by the same inventive cinematographer, Hans Ertl (one of Riefenstahl's former flames), who shot the slow-motion montage of divers that ends "Olympia".
The manipulated, rhetorical side of the film uses authoritative voice-overs and expert witnesses, old television clips and film of Louis Kahn taken for other documentaries; the open, realist side uses videotape to portray Nathaniel's subjective experience of his father's neglect.
From the students' perspective, they generated strong emotions about the relative merit of different presenters, favoring Sir David Attenborough for his authoritative, informative stance, as well as the inclusion of contextual examples and narrative and expository components in his documentaries.
