Final Project ideas
- Louise and Jocelynne: Falconworks, Reg Flowers documentary –
- Theater of the oppressed pedagogy;
- Interviews –
- Structure – make a “radio cut” – just the story first since that’s central and then think about the video
- TODAY: radio cut
- Dan: group portrait of the people in my life. It’s about me but I’m not in it. Music video
- Naomi: Visual poem about community art works here, in my hometown, and in Mexico
- Tamsin and Nina: fictional piece that is self reflexive about the documentary making process, e.g. emotional exploitation, storytelling techniques etc.
- at idea stage: what is the point of documentary anyway? Want to complicate traditional practices of doc making
- building on Prof. Juhasz’s manifesto, interested in production of truth, e.g. student life vs CUNY promotional videos
- Structure: have a script;
- HW: read Herzog, Minnesota declaration?? https://walkerart.org/magazine/minnesota-declaration-truth-documentary-cinema
- TODAY: write a script!
- Mahalia: autobiographical doc about my cat’s day and how it parallels (or not) my day
- have footage – yay!
- need day footage, but have night footage
- work on structure and story
- two cats, both sides of personality – needs voiceover
- TODAY: draft voiceover
- Nick: poem about aunt
- Ken: footage of view from my window over a year+
- have all the footage – yay!
- develop an arc, a story, a structure
- GOAL: park as a living thing, time scale is different from that of the humans
- STRUCTURE:
- keep as is;
- structure by other elements beside time; breath, rhythm.
- vary duration of shots; cross dissolve with people
- richer audio, sweeten sound mix
- Allison: pod 1 walking tour, footage of the LES and photos AND/OR more postcard style. split screen
- location planning:
- structure: nytime archive of what a place looked like then and now – something similar, but where.
- Split-screen: past/present; photo/video; switch up the sides
- Story: ??
- TODAY: look up photos from archive; decide on locations; logic of selection (modern, prominent buildings and past) fort greene? Nytimes, every building on every
AxenObservationalClips
In-Class Shoot (Mobina’s group)
https://vimeo.com/330327316
Haiku Allison
Haiku Naomi Castillo
In Class shoot 4-12 (Irina’s group)
Louise, Nina, Nick
JAMS
Observational film dan