DOCUMENTARY WORKSHOPS

Thames Uni, Leeds Metropolitan, UCL

Run Documentary workshops at:

 

  • Thames University – for refugees.
  • Leeds Metropolitan University – for last year students
  • UCl – for anthropology students

 

The workshops covered several areas:

 

  • Composition and visual language
  • Creative process
  • Structure
  • Interviewing
  • Critical analysis
  • Ways of working

Extract:

Doing documentary work is much more than “recording facts.”   It is a reflexive process

Most documentaries share in common a mission to raise public awareness about important social matters.

  • It’s the most explicit political film form

  • Issues are brought to the foreground of public debate

  • Attitudes are shaped that will affect the historical context in which the same issues exist

The audience’s expectations of what a documentary is, are partly based on what a fiction film is not, essentially in relation to reality. For we recognise the hand of reality in the images and sound that documentary offers us.

We may agree or not with the points made but tend to accept it in conception as a record of reality.