This week I wasn’t able to attend both the Zephyr classes, but for my understanding this week is focused on researching a docuseries, analysing it closely in regards to its content, structure, style, documentary techniques and more. 

The TATE videos acted as a source of inspiration for the upcoming assignment. It gave me an idea of what I should be looking for when shooting, the different camera angles, the audio quality, editing style and techniques, questions to ask the interviewee. Watching Paul Joy’s video gave me new insight into audio channels and how to use them effectively in regards to the FX3. 

The next part of our assignment was to break down a docuseries: we chose Art Basel and a reference video: Meet the Artist – Precious Okoyomon. Deconstructing it helped us understand the many techniques a professional docuseries uses to showcase their work and pointers that we can take away by breaking down their work to use for our own. These included sound design, aesthetic, editing styles, camera angles, narrative structure, interview questions and more. 

Francis Coppola’s Notebook on ‘The Godfather’ helped me to understand one process that a professional uses to deconstruct a text to his understanding to recreate the work. This was useful because we did our own deconstruction and could inform our next.