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Video Production: Documentary Project. Documentary styles:. 1. Interview: you ask questions and they answer them (you can be on or off screen) Example: most Michael Moore ( Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko ) documentaries have frequent interviews along with #2 and #3
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Documentary styles: • 1. Interview: you ask questions and they answer them (you can be on or off screen) Example: most Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko) documentaries have frequent interviews along with #2 and #3 • 2. Cinémavérité or fly on the wall: just video of real events (you can also have archive footage) Example: BBC’s Planet Earth: http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=Ba-nwG7Xu50 • 3. Voice-over (narration; voice of God): explaining things without being on screen • Example: An Inconvenient Truth • 4. Re-enactments: trying to film real events that have already taken place (the re-enactment is not real though) • Example: The Thin Blue Line (find clip - The Thin Blue Line –MrMorrisalan) http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=dB7OcOKwZ-s • Usually documentaries mix all four of them together or leave one out.
Important Questions to Consider • What is your topic? • How will you present it? • Do you want to tell your audience what to think or will you show them? • Will you interview real people? • Will it be comical or a serious documentary? • What visuals do you need to plan to include? • Are you going to try to convince your audience of something? • Make them feel something? • Will you simply provide information? • How will you make your documentary seem credible?
Documentary film: (5-10 minutes) Due February 15th. We will learn about the different techniques to make documentary film: interview, fly-on-the-wall or Cinémavérité, re-enactments, and the use of voice-over narration. During this we will also learn about Aristotle's way of making arguments: pathos, logos, and ethos since you will be persuading your audience to believe, agree with, and even feel whatever you want them to feel about your topic. This will be a non-fiction film, however, any film plays with reality and it is your job to make that reality as believable as possible. Need video production plan and shot list. Requirements:
Sample • http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=GLgh9h2ePYw • Life of a Plastic Bag