Then reflect on the whole process – Consider: the quality and usability of your recordings; the effect of layering and juxtaposition of both the audio and the video and; the things you learnt from working with this kind of audio and video.

Select from one of the readings and briefly describe two points that you have taken from it. Points that excite you, something that was completely new to you. (Please put a full stop when you return so we get a paragraph break. Makes it easier to read.)

The readings that i’ve picked is

Pawel Pawlikowski. Imagining reality

The article talks about the details of human brutality and the filmmaking that has tried to cope with it. The point that i’ve taken away from it is that, making films is not to convey objective information about the world, but to show it as how I see it and to find a form which is relevant. Shoot what you think about the topic, the message that you want to convey, instead of shooting something because you think it ‘should’ be in it.

Besides that, from the author’s point of view, making a documentary involves a degree of schizophrenia, he tries to understand and enter the subject, see the world through its eyes, accept its logic, while at the same time maintaining an aesthetic and often ironic distance from it.