Documentary Production

Thursday, April 26, 2007

25/04/07 Wednesday Lecture
In today's lecture, we looked at Documentary future. We talked about documentary's theartrical release, Digital Era and some delivery platforms. Then we had a case study on Loose Change, directed by Dylan Avery. Then we talked about Interactive documentary. At the end of class, people had a argument over the film Sarah showed us, it was interesting.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

27/03/07 Tuesday Tutorial
In today's class we watched documentary maker Nick Broomfield's two films about the serial killer Aileen Wuornose. Then we discussed the differences between the two documentaries. His first documentary Selling of a Serial Killer is about the story of Aileen and focuses on how her story is being sold being by her friends and family in order to get money. The second documentary Life and Death Of a Serial Killer focuses more on Aileen Wuornose. These two films we watched showed us Nick Broomfield has a distinctive style through his work by useing of voice over narration when driving his car.
28/03/07 Wednesday Lecture
In today's lecture we looked at Nick Broomfield. We talked about his background and his Fetishes, released in 1996; Kurt & Courtney, released in 1997 and Biggie & Tupac, released in 2001... Then we looked his new feature-Ghosts which based on deaths of Chinese workers in Morecambe Bay. Then we talked about his quotes.
28/02/07 Wednesday Lecture
In today's lecture, we talked about documentary in Ireland. Irish goverment sponsored Irish documentaries through National Film Institute. In 1946, goverment sponsored historical documentary A Nation Once Again. It proofs Irish's goverment's belief in power of documentary film. Then we looked at Mise Eire, pruduced by Gael Linn in 1959. It contains archive footage and deals with the period of 1896-1918 in Irish history. Then we looked Rocky Road to Dublin, directed by Peter Lennon in 1968. This film looks at the state of the church in Ireland. It filmed in the style of the French New wave.
31/01/07 Wednesday Lecture
In today's lecture, we talked about the begginings of the documentary film. We looked Pioneers of documentary and watched Muybridge sequences. Then Sarah talked about the explorer of documentary Robert J Flaherty and his documentaries have been made.
18/04/07 Wednesday Lecture
In Today's lecture, we watched Louis Theroux's documentary about Louis meets the most hated family in America for the first hour. After watching it, we discussed the subject matter of the documentary; the style of the documentary; the interviewing technique of the documentary and Louis' on screen presence... Louis Theroux's subject matter like he deals with unusual things. His style were like Nick Broomfields in regards to voice over narration. He always had a very funny apperance on the screen as a film maker, if Nick Broomfield made this documentary it would be quite serious and shock. His interviewing technique was he asked quite bold questions, but he was nice. His on screen presence in this documentary is quite interesting
Then we got into our creme egg mokumentary group to refresh the idea then talked to Sarah about it.