Apr
2016
Week 7 Reading #1: Non-Narrative/Collaboration
I never actually understood the depths of documentary film making and about the producer/directors attention as much as this reading gave detail in. I have always thought a documentary film is factual, gives you information about something and or pushes an agenda. From the beginning of this reading I started to understand about the different types of documentary films that are produced. Form example- categorial films are used to convey information about the world shown in patterns of development such as moving from small to large or local to national. At first I thought this was a simple idea about developing information about something e.g the development of humans moving from one stage to the next- but the author of this reading gave a very complex example which really interested me about how this can be used. A documentary was made about gap toothed women and what people thought about them “He uses categorical organisation in original ways that demonstrate how entertaining and thought0provoking this simple approach to form can be”. This really stood out to me because it showed that even the simplistic of characteristics can be made into something and developed each part of the way.
This part of the reading really stood out to me because it reflected on the documentary film that I am currently producing.
But for now Good Night!