Thursday, May 17, 2012

Term 4 Week 3: Intro to Documentaries

Assigned: 17-18 May 2012

Chao Cac Ban!

For the rest of the year we will be learning about making and editing videos, with a focus on documentaries.

What is a documentary?

A documentary is a non-fiction film with the purpose to document or record some aspect of reality. It's facts. It's basically like a persuasive magazine article, but on film instead of written in a magazine. It has similar features.

What documentaries have you seen or do you know about?

This is week 3 of the term. In the remaining 8 weeks of the term you will be working to plan, write, film, edit, and produce a short documentary.

Today's assignment is the following:

  • get into groups of 3-4 peopl
  • talk together to choose a topic for your documentary
  • start an email to Ms. Kris with the names of the people in your group and your topic
  • Answer the following questions about your topic in the email as well
    • What have I not yet been told about this subject?
    • Is everything I have been told the truth? How much do I need to verify/prove?
    • What would I personally like to know about this subject?
    • If I were a member of the audience, what would I want to learn about this
      subject?
    • What can I find that is little known on this subject?
    • What information can I gather that would aid the filming process?
  • Send the email to Ms. Kris
  • If there is still time left in class, start researching your topic and figuring out what you're going to say in your documentary - be sure to take notes so you're ready to get started next week!
Good luck!

-k

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