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Say what each segment of a described documentary does, and what a viewer loses when one is cut.
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An invented documentary opens on a flooded barangay street at dawn. The narration asks why this street floods every June. What does this opening segment do for the film?
In the same invented film, a later segment explains that the creek beside the street was narrowed by construction twenty years before filming. What does this segment do?
In an invented documentary, a segment shows a resident marking the water line on her wall, then the same wall a week later, higher. What does this segment mainly do?
The last segment of that invented film returns to the same street, now dry, while the narration says the creek is being widened and the next rainy season will test it. What does this closing segment do?
An invented documentary says a school feeding program cut absences. A later segment interviews a teacher who says a new bus route started in the same month. What does this segment do?
An invented documentary follows a fisherfolk cooperative. The segment on how the group formed after a bad season is cut. What would a viewer be missing?
An invented documentary on a jeepney driver's day cuts the segment where he speaks to the camera about his fuel costs. The footage of him driving stays. What is the viewer missing?
In an invented documentary on urban flooding, the segment showing a clogged drain being opened is cut, but the narration still says the drain was blocked. What is the viewer left without?
An invented documentary on a coastal cleanup ends right after its last interview, because the closing segment was cut. What is a viewer most likely to be missing?
In an invented documentary on a rice harvest, the segment explaining the word palay is placed after four segments that already use it. What does that placement cost the viewer?
An invented documentary's second segment shows a barangay health worker walking her route, greeting families, and saying how long she has worked there. What does this segment do?
In an invented documentary on a night market, the narration says vendors start at four in the afternoon. A vendor then says on camera that she starts at two. What does her interview segment add?
Halfway through an invented documentary, a short segment repeats the opening question over quiet footage of the empty market. What does this short segment do for the structure?
An invented documentary on a student's review routine cuts between her studying at five in the morning and selling snacks at seven at night. What does this paired segment do?
An invented documentary on a proposed market fee cuts the segment where two vendors object, and keeps the segment where the market head explains the fee. What is the viewer missing?
Near the end of an invented documentary, the narration says the crew spoke to six drivers and could not reach the operator's office. What does this segment do for the viewer?
An invented documentary claims a feeding program serves hundreds of meals daily. Cutting the segment that shows the daily count being taken would leave that claim with nothing the viewer can check.
In an invented documentary, a segment shows the crew counting jeepneys at one corner for a full hour before the narration gives a total. What does showing the counting do?
An invented documentary reports that a barangay health station sees more patients than two years ago. The segment naming where that record came from is cut. What is the viewer missing?
An invented documentary on a fisherfolk cooperative loses its opening segment, so it now begins with an interview about repairing nets. What is the viewer missing from the start?
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