Documenting the Real - Approaching Documentary

• Conceptual & Intellectual step-up
• More confident
• Want to do - Compelled to do
• Don't ask lecturers - Convince them!
• Must work from a diary (work back from deadlines)
• Being organised allows 'time off' without feeling guilty
• Assignment 1 - Essay HCB
• Assignment 2 - 10 prints 'Open Brief'
• Naturalism, Realism & Truth
• The best essays are in fact 'Arguments'
• Genuine crossover of work but not a duplication (from one module to another)
• Critical Journals for every module (A5 is suitable)
• Depth of Research (NOT breadth)
• Be Creative (ie Walker Evans hidden camera)
• John Grierson Filmmaker 1920s and 1930s Documentary Films
• "The creative treatment of actuality"
• What do I bring to the shot? Different view point?
• Constructing a viewpoint
• Naturalistic - a surface reality
• Eastenders offers us a 'Naturalistic Aesthetic'
• Naturalism in style - representation - re-presentation
• Realism of attitude
• Truth? Ansel Adams WWII Photos of Nisei