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 […]
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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 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 […]