week 3 lecture

– don’t try to ‘fit’ your documentary into a model or taxonomy > let the work itself inform what mode it fits into after the fact

– we are all part of participatory formats and have been engaging with this material for years (has been happening for years before documentary came to the party)

– johnny cash project example

– legalities involved in participatory formats > contribution contracts

– youtube relies on content from outside simply to exist > documentary on the other hand functions to make a comment or statement

– film documentary (relies on characters coming along to contribute or be the subject) interactive documentary (relies on contributors participating)

– look at what the actual form allows (korsakov) and what you technically can DO with it before you create a meaning or try to embed meaning