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In this class we work-shopped our interview techniques and practised interviewing one another. Link to interview: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BPXSMfUnKgjztryg49Po5Jja3B6-S4y1 By completing this exercise I had time to identified some areas I could improve on next time. I realised it’s important to have the confidence to ask a question more than once in order to get a well […]

What is or isn’t ethically acceptable to include in documentary content is fluid. Although one thing is certain, the film maker has the trust of the social actor who may experience consequences from whatever is shown on screen. There is also another layer to consider, that audiences watch documentary with a common understanding that they […]

My understanding of an essay film is any formal video content that explores and acknowledges personal subjectivity on a topic. The genre often marries documentary with the Cinema Verite style to shape the work. At first I struggled to understand concept of an essay film, I felt the genre was very broad and didn’t really […]

Creating a Vertov-Style Montage sequence was a great insight into how the cinema verite style of film making can be used in documentary. An observation I made was that the direction of movement withing the frame impacted the next shot and flow of the montage.  Furthermore the order of shots in the edit also influenced […]

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Throughout the process of making these videos I discovered the most important phase of the documentary film making process is the development and research phase. This acts as a catalyst for what we shoot and the concept behind the work. Using a book of interviews as a starting point to create our documentaries worked well. […]

As I was away while my group filmed the interview exercise, I’m not able to comment on the exercise itself. However I did watch them back in class and I gained some ideas of improvements I could apply to my own work. For example sometimes you need to ask a question more than once and […]

The Living Museum of the West is small and quaint, tucked away in Pipemakers Park out of sight from passing traffic. At first glance the museum looked chaotic, images and manuscripts were scattered over various surfaces and the archives were crammed together. There didn’t appear to be a real order to anything.  As I began […]