Based off Ivens’s The Bridge and Rain which both study the movement of a thing, this exercise (found here) is about capturing rhythm and movement.
week 5 long-take exercise
In response to…
In his classes, he famously asks his students to forget their personal narratives and any attempts at dramatisation and to merely experience what is happening for a long time in a not very eventful place – Panse (46)
Here is this long-take exercise.
the glue between parts
In a poetic approach to documentary, the issue becomes one of finding the balance between offering a definitive, unquestionable single pathway at one extreme and presenting a loose collection of raw documents at the other – Frankham (145)
Based off the above quote from Bettina Frankham we will be doing an exercise based on how much glue we need between parts to make narrative and non-narrative nonfiction.
This exercise can be viewed here.