27/02/07 Tuesday Tutourial
We were given our documentary/mocumentary project in class and Sarah talked through the stuff what we need to do for it. Then we watched Alan Gilson's documentary about people who are suffering with cancer and are going to die in Ireland.
I've seen many many documentaries either Chinese or English like this one talking about people are dying. Yeah it is bad even cruel for their families and friends to rewatch it, but as a director Alan Gilson wanted to show his personal feeling.

07/02/07 Wednesday Lecture
In today's lecture, we talked about John Grierson who saw the documentary as an instrument for social instruction and change. He also had a love-hate relationship with Robert Flaherty. He was to Russian cinema and Eisenstein. 'Drifters' in 1929 was his first time documentary just about man. He led his film unit at the Empire Marketing Board, the goverment first time named their own market. We also looked the differences between the Flaherty documentary and the Grierson documentary. Then we looked Dziga Vertov, we didn't talk much about him because we had handouts missing...