Introduction to Feature-Length Documentary Filmmaking
Daily Learning Target(s):
- I can READ a documentary and ANALYZE its structure, narrative style, & effectiveness.
- Bring Headphones 'ERY DAY
Homework: Make your OWN homework
Agenda [100]:
- Personal Documentary Outline Worktime [50]
- Introduction to the Documentary format [10]
- Tells a story
- Is supposed to be truthful and accurate (like the news)
- Can be with or without a viewpoint
- Often uses interviews
- Follows the rules of good story-telling
- Character development ('characters' in a documentary are not necessarily people)
- Antagonist
- Protagonist
- Story Arc
- Context
- Rising action
- Climax
- Falling action
- Follows the rules of good Photography
- Watching Forks Over Knives - Part 1 [40]
- What is the filmmaker's goal in making this film?
- How does he go about making his point?
- What elements of the film did you think were successful (or convinced you he was "right")?
- What elements of the film did you think were UNsuccessful (or that you did NOT find convincing)?
- What was the coolest camera or editing TRICK you saw?
- Synopsys:
- The feature film Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.
- Degenerative disease is the result of a continuous process based on degenerative cell changes, affecting tissues or organs, which will increasingly deteriorate over time, whether due to normal bodily wear or lifestyle choices such as exercise or eating habits.
- Abbreviated list of Degenerative diseases
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