Upcoming Dates
The first five-minute cut of the 15-minute documentary will be due next class, on Tuesday, March 22. For those of you doing the visual poems, I’m extending the deadlines of your final cuts to Thursday, March 24.
For those of you who are doing the visual poem/five-minute doc trajectory this semester, your next and final major video assignment is coming up. Pitches for your five-minute short doc will be due Tuesday, March 29, when we’ll workshop your ideas together in class.
And one final reminder that your breaking news assignment must be completed this month. Since March 31st falls toward the end of the week I will extend that to include the weekend, meaning the assignment will be due by midnight Sunday, April 3.
Short Doc Assignment Details
Your documentary should be five minutes long, give or take a minute in either direction based on how densely edited and tightly paced it is.
It can be narrated, whether you would like to appear as an onscreen correspondent or feel that the narrative merits a voiceover (often a consideration if the story requires a lot of background and exposition). It can also be non-narrated, which tends to lend itself to a more character-driven, organic, verité-style story.
Narrated, newsy, complicated story with voiceover:
On-camera correspondent:
Non-narrated:
The Art of Typeface in Documentaries
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/text-graphics-in-video/#Text-graphics-Definitions-and-applications
What Netflix’s Top 50 Shows Can Teach Us About Font Psychology [Infographic]
A Baruch doc (published on D&S) that uses typeface in an interesting way: