Friday, 30 June 2017
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Proposal
Proposal
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Brief – The idea is that for my documentary I am to come up with a
question regarding video games, but will have other video games
discussed such as genre, history and controversy discussed and how
they affect the world and perhaps the similarities between video
games and other media. I will also be talking about how gaming is a
growing media all in its own and talk about elders views on this and
their beliefs and how there might be a collision between the two in
which I want to solve. I want to do this by first giving my input to
begin with simply talking about video games and my views on it and
then want to interview some people in the college and ask what their
favorite game is, if they do not play games I will ask them why and
what they think of it. The overall question is I would say would be
what the impact of video games is and how it helps the world.
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The target audience, I would say would be ideally people who are a
little bit older perhaps 20+ of people of both gender. I think it
would be interesting for elders to give their view on the topic.
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Interviews – For interviews, I would like to see others opinion on
the topic so I could start up the interview with what they enjoy
playing if not why not then carry on from there. I can ask them what
their views are on it, and problems they may believe are caused by
it. They might agree with it or not, and we can have a comparison
between a younger person who plays video games and how its influenced
them then switch it up to some one older and show their opinion then
the audience can make out themselves what they think of video games
now. This would be done in a expository type documentary which is
usually what people associate with documentary, as I would be
sharing my point of view and other points of view and asking a
rhetorical question of what they think.
.Production
– In terms of production I do not have a budget, however am
fortunate enough to be able to have the needed resources possessed to
be able to record footage such as the camera, tripod, sd card and
computer for editing.
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Friday, 23 June 2017
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Documentary Mini Task
Documentary Mini Task
What is
Documentary?
A
documentary is a report, which consists usually of other people’s opinions
around a certain subject, in which people would go to the place gather
information and interview people for more primary data. This will all help to answer the certain
question surrounding the documentary in question.
Key features
of expository documentaries
These
documentaries consist of a narrator speaking directly towards you giving
multiple rhetorical questions, which engage the audience to be interested in
the question and the answers to the question. It is usually a strong male voice
to sound more serious perhaps to get the point across to people watching. Some
more of the persuasive techniques they use are hard-hitting facts and opinions
to the subject.
Observational
Documentaries
In this
there is still a narrator but not always, sometimes there would not be a
narrator at all and just there to observe and lets the viewer make their own
opinion on the matter, but if there is a narrator they would not give their
opinion and instead just say what is going on. They don’t use persuasive
techniques as they don’t want to seem biased it’s like there is no question
rather you make up your own question from this and give your own answers the
data is just there. Some good examples of this are David Attenborough’s wild
life documentaries.
Interactive
Documentaries
With these,
they are interested in really getting you involved by asking you questions,
showing graphics of text and graphs. This is done for you to formulate your own
answer along with regular camera with regular camera work to reflect regular
lives and be as if you are there adding to the interactive aspect. They usually
revolve around regular everyday life and use graphics for you to answer for yourself,
as it is mean to reflect people’s everyday lives. Some examples of this is the
2009 interactive documentary Prison Valley, showing the everyday life of
prisoners making you understand how they feel.
Reflective
Documentaries
A reflective
documentary is a more experimental type of documentary in which the producers
do not mind showing camera crews or any behind the scenes footage and make the
audience as interested in the documentary subject as they are with everything
else. Some examples that use this technique are documentaries made by people
such as Louis Theroux and nick broom field who are for making these type of documentary
in which they would not hide the camera crew and act quite natural even when
interviewing people.
Performative
Documentaries
This type of
documentary incorporate the filmmaker as the main character as he is placed in
these places to set a scenario, in which is usually quite biased and somewhat exaggerated.
An example of this would be the Michael Moore documentary Bowling for Columbine
(2002) in which there is a scene where Michael Moore is in a bank and shows how
easy it is to just get a gun at a bank.
Conclusion
When it
comes to creating film you should always have to have some sort of moral to
forward the narrative, and documentary is no different as it is based on the
question or idea of the documentary. You should provide real evidence, and not exaggerate
like you would a Hollywood movie, as documentaries are not that its more having
an idea and trying to inform and get your own point across and showing reality,
as otherwise you get the wrong idea of a documentary and is more like propaganda.
Thursday, 8 June 2017
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