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 […]
Category: Documenting The Environment
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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 Two: Observational
Unfortunately I was ill this week and missed out on the protest film exercise. As a result I was given a task on observational documentary. The idea was to catch a mood and create a story of a place so I was quite excited to go out and film two juxtaposing views of Sydney Rd, […]
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 […]