The VOICES class is now going into Documentary Mode for the next few months. I'm really quite excited, because I love documentaries. They are very interesting to me, even the dullest of subjects in documentary form can strike my attention. My partner for the documentary assignment will be Lena. We're having a whole lot of trouble deciding on a subject or topic to do our documentary on. We both have a lot of great ideas, but some of them are very unrealistic or boring to others. My two favorite ideas that I came up with; the way children view the world as apposed to adults and a mash-up of a few old couples' love stories. The children idea I find interesting, because kids are so honest. They tell you what they see and there isn't a whole lot of bias. The old love stories would just be adorable. Sort of a When Harry Met Sally feel. There are problems with both ideas of course. Where would the issue of the stories be?
The reading assigned to us this week was an intro to directing documentaries. I had no idea there were so many different kinds of documentaries. They can be shown from a future view, as a creative treatment of actuality, social criticism, or from one specific person's point of view. Successful documentaries have interesting stories, people that present themselves well for interviews, and some tension. You want to engage the audience and then keep them there. Many film makers will argue, but a documentary can really come in any form as long as it's the documentation of actuality. Many documentaries are biased, because the person making it clearly has their opinions and wants to share them.
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