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Planning for documentary

The purpose of the documentary is to show how people with disabilities make their way around the school. Voice-over throughout the entire documentary to make the audience understand what it is about. Time lapses will be used in order to make it look more appealing. Day-to-day routine of what a person with disability has to do. Facts about how many people with disability go to the school, as well as their opinion on how easy it is to make their way around the school. Questions * How long does it take to get to school? * Do you think the school is designed to make it easy for people with disabilities to go around the school? * Do you experience any bullying because of this? * How hard is it to make your way around when using public transport? * How people treat disabled people in the school? Facts & Statistics: * The amount of people with disability going to a mainstream college? * Get a wider view, include the amount of people with disability in London, not just the sch...

Evaluation of the three styles

  1.        Evaluation of documentary work so far…. ·          Evaluate the three types/styles of documentary; expository, observational, participatory ·          In terms of practical work what went well, what could have gone better and why (so the group documentaries and the interview) ·         Observationa l In terms of the practical work for the observational documentary our group was clear from the start about what they wanted to film and the topic matter they wanted to include/cover. The camera angles that were used highlighted the struggles that I as a wheelchair user face every day at college, however it would have been better if I had held the camera so that the viewer could see things from my own perspective. Another thing that went well was that we had a filming schedule and we stuck to this really well, we knew exactly what...

participatory mode- case study

Case study task 1.       Write a definition of the participatory mode of documentary filmmaking The participatory mode became popular around the 1960. The participatory mode is where “the filmmaker interacts with his or her social actors, rather than observes and participates in shaping what happens before the camera” (Nichols 151). A participatory documentary is a general and collaborative process that engages communities in designing and carrying out the collection and distribution of their own story. It is not simply about producing stories. 2.       Find your own example of a participatory style documentary film/programme XIBEJANA XA HINA Our Rhino is a participatory film project with a group of environmental monitors and Rhino ambassadors working with the Kruger 2 Canyons Biosphere Region https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLy0Zbz9VZU Duration: 21m56sec Languages: English/some Tsonga Negry is a Rhino Ambassado...