Research

http://www.openbreif.wordpress.com
http://www.youtube.com
http://www.onthemoveonlinedefne.wordpress.com

These are all the sources I used to get my information for my film so far. Im using the class room blog because it gives me helpful information on planning my film for this specific contest. It is also useful because there it has all the guid lines and helpful pointers to make my planning for the film.
I use youtube so I can view more short films to see examples and collect ideas for my film. I mainly used youtube to see example of short films as a documentary because that’s what I’m planning to do.
I used my old blog to see what camera is used for what and which one I should use in my film. I also used it to see how I planned my last film and what I need improving on in my upcoming film.

Research Based of my research plan:

What film contest will I enter

The film contest I am entering will be “Up and Coming”, their website is:  http://www.up-and-coming.de 

Information about the film contest

The entire of the film contest is the 1. January 2014 and the deadline for the contest will be the 1. August 2015, the film contest is categorized in three age groups: up to 16, 17 to 22, 23 to 27. They invite people from any countries to enter their contest. This contest is hosted in Hannover. For more information:   http://www.up-and-coming.de/Regulations.429+M52087573ab0.0.html

The genre I will be focusing on is documentary:

Documentary Genres

1. Poetic Documentaries

1. Does not use continuity editing, sacrifices sense of the very specific location and place that continuity creates

2. Explores associations and patterns that involve temporal rhythms and spatial juxtapositions 

3. Social Actors rarely become fully-fledged characters

4. Opens up possibility of alternative forms of knowledge to straightforward transfer of knowledge

NEGATIVE: LACK OF SPECIFIC

2.Expository Documentary

1.Arose from dissatisfaction with distracting entertainment qualities of the fiction film
2.Voice of god commentary, poetic perspectives sought to disclose information about historical world & see that world afresh, even if ideas seem romantic or didactic
3.Addresses viewer directly, w/titles or voices

4.Advances argument about historical world 

5. It takes shape around commentary directed toward the viewer; images illustrate  the verbal commentary builds sense of dramatic involvement around need for solution to a problem.
6. Nonsynchronous sound prevails (historical circumstances)

7. Editing generally establishes/maintains rhetorical continuity more than spatial/temporal  

3.Observational Documentaries

1.Arose from available lightweight portable synchronous recordin equipment & dissatisfaction with moralizing quality of expository documentary.
2.It allowed filmmaker to record unobtrusively what folks did when not explicitly addressing the camera.
3.It stresses the nonintervention of filmmaker
4.Filmmaker cedes control of events more than any other mode.
5.Editing doesnít construct time frame or rhythm, but enhances impression of lived or real time.
6.This mode limited filmmaker to present moment and required disciplined detachment from events themselves.
7.It uses indirect address, speech overheard, synchronous sound, relatively long takes.
8 Its sense of observation comes from

4.Interactive Documentary

It arose from the availability of same mobile equipment & desire to make filmmakers perspective more evident.

1. This mode  wants to engage w/individuals more directly while not reverting to classic exposition interview styles

2. It allows filmmaker to account for past events via witnesses and experts whom viewer can also see

3.  Archival footage becomes appended to these commentaries to avoid hazards of reenactment & monolithic claims of voice of god commentary

5.Reflexive Documentary

1.    Arose form desire to make the conventions of representation themselves more apparent & to challenge the impression of reality which other three modes normally conveyed unproblematically.

2.     It is the most self-aware mode – its reflexivity makes audience aware of how other modes claim to cosntruct “truth” through documentary practice.

3.     It uses many of devices of other modes but sets them on edge so viewer attends to device as well as the effect.

4. It tears away veil of filmmakers illusory absence

5. Becomes technologically viable in 50s  with emergence of portable synchronous sound equipment makes interaction more feasible

6. Performative Documentary

1. Like Reflexive Documentary, it raises questions about knowledge
2. Endorses definition of knowledge that emphasizes personal experience (in tradition of poetry, literature)

3. Tries to demonstrate how understanding such personal knowledge can help us understand more general processes of society

4. May “mix” elements of various documentary modes to achieve link between subjective knowledge/understanding of the world, and more general understandings, i.e. historical ones.

(All info found about all the type of genres used within documentaries were found at this website:http://condor.depaul.edu/dtudor/DOCUMENTARY%20MODES.htm)