This are my lecture notes from today's lecture, just as a reminder when it comes to our future group meetings.
We were told at 'poetic documentary draws on the real world for your raw material but transforms it into personal ways'.
This is very true, as many documentaries I've seen have similar research and materials, however there are personal elements. I feel that sometimes within a documentary, it isn't necessarily the facts that interest your audience, but the emotion and feelings within the work. If a work is personal, for example the case in 'Animated Minds' By Andy Glynn, we're shown how Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is for this one specific person.
We watched a number of examples from different documentaries to link to this thesis, which of some I will discuss further within this blog. Other notes taken in this lesson were:
- The poetic potential of documentary to see the world anew - or even just a certain subject in a different way, which nicely links with our idea of folk dance being a stereotype and bringing out that stereotype to reveal a whole new range of information about the theme and people involved in this culture.
- Editing style is particularly significant - of course. I believe that the process of editing is the main part of bringing the documentary together. As an editor, you're given a range of information, interview sound bites and raw materials to work with - and can creatively work and edit them together to create a story - depending on how you edit the film, the documentary can have many different themes, moods and the factual information may be altered.
- Questioning the world by portraying its incoherence.
For next week, we need to ensure that we have a pitch ready to present and hand in, as well as research a range of short documentaries and choose clip to illustrate pitch - this is what we plan to do on Wednesday 13th in a meeting booth in another group meeting.
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