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- 1. Understanding Documentary FilmGenre Aims and Objectives To understand the Genre of Documentary To recognise Documentary Film Making Techniques To apply understanding to London Olympic Documentary 2012
- 2. What is Documentary? Based on your own experience of Documentary Film, how can we begin to define the genre? What do these images suggest about the power of Documentary Film?
- 3. Examples of Documentaries BowlingFor Columbine (Oscar winner, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3Y1SdvUQQ Sicko (Oscar nominated, 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BJyyyRYbSk ? Fahrenheit 9/11(Palme D'Or, 2004) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zf2nCiBJLo The Cove (Sundance Winner 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo The Bengali Detective (Sundance and Berlin competitions, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9VBrVNCUhA Man on Wire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIawNRm9NWM Weird Weekends - Demolition Derby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf35-ChvUBA Biggie and Tupac Independent Research: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHXjUMwmgk Directors Michael Moore, Nick Broomfield, Louis Theroux, Mark Thomas, Jon Pliger, Films Kathy Come Home Panorama Legalisaiton of Drugs LSD live on camera Living in the 70s Jamie Oliver Jamies School Diners
- 4. Different Types ofDocumentary Here are two types of Documentary. There are more but this is what we are working around. 1. EXPOSITORY documentaries speak directly to the viewer, often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voiceover or titles, proposing a strong argument and point of view. These films are rhetorical, and try to persuade the viewer. The (voice-of-God) commentary often sounds ‘objective’ and omniscient. Images are often not paramount; they exist to advance the argument. Historical documentaries in this mode deliver an unproblematic and ‘objective’ account and interpretation of past events. Examples: TV shows and films like A&E Biography; America’s Most Wanted; many science and nature documentaries; Ken Burns’ The Civil War (1990); Robert Hughes’ The Shock of the New (1980); John Berger’s Ways Of Seeing (1974). Also, Frank Capra’s wartime Why We Fight series; Pare Lorentz’s The Plow That Broke The Plains (1936). What examples would you add from your own experience? Has there been a time where your opinion has been changed? 2. PARTICIPATORY documentaries believe that it is impossible for the act of filmmaking to not influence or alter the events being filmed. What these films do is emulate the approach of the anthropologist: participant-observation. Not only is the filmmaker part of the film, we also get a sense of how situations in the film are affected or altered by her presence Examples: Vertov’s The Man with a Movie Camera (1929); Rouch and Morin’s Chronicle of a Summer (1960); Ross McElwee’s Sherman’s March (1985); Nick Broomfield’s films. I suspect Michael Moore’s films would also belong here, although they have a strong ‘expository’ bent as well.What examples would you add from your own experience? Has there been a time when your opinion has changed?
- 5. Planning for DocumentaryFilm Making Aims and Objectives To consider issues around Olympics and how to communicate ideas to raise awareness To use a plan to structure arguments around issues using a wide range of sources To develop key technical skills with imovie, editing for Documentary Film and learn how the media shape opinion C Successful Outcomes H A Consideration the impact of the Olympics and some issues surrounding it N G Creation of working script through collaboration E Understanding of how to plan for Documentary O Evidence of understanding the three rules for Documentary making N E Expression of an opinion surrounding issues in debate or Documentary T Completion of Voiceover in Olympic Doc H I Creation of Storyboards N G Presentation of ideas through treatment
- 6. Breakdown of theDocumentary Four Part Structure Here is a simple breakdown of the beat sheet of a Documentary Film. What Films have you seen that you could apply this structure to? Act 1: I feel passionate about it TODAY'S TASK Act 2: Why Shoud I Care: Connect what you care about with what I care about Act 3: What's the solution: What can you argue that you can do about it? Course of action that can solve the problem. MAXIMUM EFFORT IN SHOWING PEOPLE THE SOLUTION WOULD WORK Act 4: What would change, think about objections and how you can tackle it. Try to convert or show someone who would object the most that your solution is right.
- 7. Change One Thing:Brief One thing I want to change about my brother One thing I want to change about myself One thing I want to change about the school rules One thing I want to change about life in Islington One thing I want to change about what's on tv One thing I want to change about our society, the world, the universe…
- 8. Rules for Constructingan Argument Through Documentary Film Here are some important guidelines from Neil Crombie of Seneca Productions when planning for Documentary. Use these when constructing your own arguments to change people's opinion Rule 1: Competing with other media, don't assume the audience are interested. How are you going to engage them? Got to persuade people it is something they should care about? Chat them up! How are they going to be interested in you? What is meant by other media? And why is this important to understand? Rule 2: Think about what they are thinking, try to think how people will anticipate how they will respond to what you are saying. What objections might they have, what ground work do you need to do. Rule 3: Be passionate about what you are exploring, have an interest. Persuade other people it's worth getting involved. What techniques have we seen today that help persuading other people something is worth getting involved?
- 9. Different Ways ofCreating Arguments and Changing Opinion Documentary Techniques Documentary Techniques (not exhaustive): Social experiments PARTICIPATORY Interviews Reconstruction Archive footage Narration Satire Observational filming EXPOSITORY Thinking outside the box... What technique suits the kind of documentary best?