06/02/07 Tuesday Tutorial
In today's class we had to pitch for a documentary/mockumentary. Each person had three minutes to pitch in front class for Sarah. In the pitch we had to explain the main idea, resources of use, how to access the resources and the importance of making it. After the pitch, we had to vote top four in the class. Laura's mocukmentary was a spoof on Morgan Spurlock documentary Super Size Me, involving crème eggs. It was one of the top four mockumentaries that is the project we are going to work on later this semester.

14/02/07 Wednesday Lecture
In today's class we looked at the German director Leni Riefenstahl. We looked at her film Triumph des Willens/Triumph of the Will (1935) is about Nazi Party Rally. This film was beautifully shot. We also learned about her film about the German Olympics whereby she released rolling cameras on balloons showing her creativeness as a director.

20/02/07 Tuesday Tutorial
In today's tutorial we were given an essay for documentary production. It is a 1,500 words writing about three documentary makers from a prescribed list. Then we watched the documentary of one of those documentary makers from the listNeasa Ni Chianain's No Mans Land.

21/02/07 Wednesday Lecture
In today's class we had a guest lecture by the documentary maker Neasa Ni Chianain and producer David Rane. They talked about making documentaries and what projects their production company “Soilse Films” makes. They also talked about you need 20 pages for up to six months for an low budget €50,000 to develop your project. They gave a budget breakdown of “Today is Better Than Tomorrow” directed by Anna Rodgers. Then they showed us their EURODOC script programme. Then we watched trailer of both “Today is Better Than Tomorrow” and “Artic Doomsday Vault”. They also gave advice about the documentaries that were being made by people in our class. It was a good talk.

13/03/07 Tuesday Tutorial
In today's class we watched the film Roger and Me made by Michael Moore. In this film he talked about how the General Motors factory was closed down leading to a major loss of jobs in his hometown Flint. He argued with General Motors chairman Roger Smith then he decided to close down the plant when the company had been making profits.

20/03/07 Tuesday Tutorial
In today's class we watched documentary Tell them who you are. This documentary was made by the son of the cinematographer Haskell Weckler about the career of the cinematographer Haskell Weckler. It showed clips of his films and included interviews with the people he had worked with over years.The documentary showed the conflict between Haskell as filmmaker and his son trying to make his identity as a filmmaker.