Alongside getting our proposals and the ball rolling on our projects, we began with the task of making a documentary on a select text we were given, ours being "The Performative Documentary" by Barker, Dineen and Broomfield.
In short, the text was trying to argue the question as to which out of "performative" documentaries (E.g. Documentaries which re-enact scenes using actors) or "Real-Life and Challenging" Documentaries (E.g. "Bowling For Columbine", director really involved with subject) portrays the truth best?
To express what we had learnt from this text, as we were put into groups to make these presentations, we created a mini documentary which compared the two different type of documentaries against each other.
Filming was great fun and really did help us to get into the feel and groove of making documentaries. The text was very heavy in my opinion which sadly dampened the fun and creativity of this piece. A smaller text would have been much better as we could have really gone to town on the whole thing, instead of having to summarise and compress the knowledge from all 22 or something pages!
Never the less, the documentary is something I'm proud of and it went down well in the screening so that's a positive. :)
Unfortunately I haven't got a copy of the documentary but instead here is a link to the video which Jeff has uploaded to his Youtube account:
http://www.youtube.com/jeffwhite1990#p/u/10/3OVXlq1VJPI
That's it for now but check back next week for the next bit of progress. :)
Take care,
Joe.
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