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Week Twelve: Finalising & Reflection
How did you address the prompt: How can we make documentary which engages in new ways of representing and experiencing the environment? One thing I really tried to play up was an immersive experience. I tried to craft a lot of sound design into the film, and areas that I let breathe within the film without […]
Week Eleven: Crafting The Edit
I have a rough cut of my edit done, I’m fairly happy with the visual layout and I’m currently working on sound design and recording narration. It’s sitting at 3:30 at the moment, and I’d like to expand on that up to around 4:30, so I’m trying to source some more relevant footage and seeing […]
Week Ten: Writing The Documentary
Script; You know, when I’m in the ocean, I’ve never felt such tension between being significant and being completely insignificant. I grew up on the east coast, the sound of crushing waves were never far, and the salt air would season my every meal. I would spend hours every week staring out over the […]
Week Seven: Story & Structure
PART A I think one of the things I generally overlook is definitely characters within stories, and how a strongly developed character can really influence the power within film and documentary. So I really liked the Illustrated Radio (2002) story, that spoke about what isn’t an overly particularly great story at the core. But […]
Week Six: Archival//Found Footage
This week’s project focuses on the use of archival and found footage. My first plan was to do a short history of agriculture documentary but I struggled to find a good timeline of archival to do so. After perusing archive.org for a ridiculously long time, I decided that my best bet would be to play […]
Week Four: Desktop Documentary
Lockdown is the new reality, and thus our course adapts to the new norm. This weeks task focuses on a form called Desktop Cinema, in which I focused on how another industry has adapted in this time. Although I myself am not that into the idea of producing Desktop Documentaries, I really liked how easy […]
Week Three: Contemplative//Ecocinema
This week we were looking into different forms of documentary; the ecocinema and contemplative imagery in poetic documentary. Ecocinema doesn’t just involve documenting the environment, but it’s also studying and being aware of our environmental impacts within the industry and producing cinema with respects to this (Hughes 2014). We looked at two films in relation […]
Week One: Documenting The Environment
This week in class, we explored the ideas of what constitutes as a documentary. To me documentaries are not a black and white clear cut genre of cinema. We have mockumentaries, crime, environmental, educational and purely entertainment. Through all these various forms of media, we are showing a culture of time, place and society. Whether […]