Class Notes for November 12

November 12, 2012 · by · in Class Notes, Video and Audio

Discussion of Site Maps

  • Group by group review
  • Restatement of guiding historical questions

Reading Review:

Bill Nichols, “The Voice of Documentary,” in Alan Rosenthal, ed., New Challenges for Documentary

  • Documentary strategies and styles have a history
  • Four major strategies presented, evaluating strengths and limitations
    • Direct-address, Griersonian, off-screen narration
    • Cinema verite, everyday lives, portable cameras, “transparent”
    • Interview-oriented 
    • Self-reflexive, acknowledge documentaries have always been “forms of re-presentation”
  • Question of “voice”
  • Importance of balancing raw data with interpretation, linking evidence with argument (while providing proper context)
  • Reading/Writing the silences

Next Steps

  • GET CAUGHT UP.