Thursday, 8 December 2011

Documentary Episode IV: A New Hope

With the music video out of the way, our next production piece would be focussing on making a documentary on one of two predetermined subjects. The subject that we were given was "Harlow: Shopper's Paradise". Since I had played such a large part in the creation of the music video, my role would be fairly smaller, with all the directing, scripting and editing left mainly to the others in the group, with my job basically consisting of doing what the others needed me to do at any given time.

Of course, since no one in the group had ever made a documentary (many had never even seen on in its entirety before), we needed to do some work on understanding the basic theory behind them. To start with, we watched a documentary created by Kevin MacDonald, entitled "One Day in September", which focussed on the murder of 11 Isreali atheletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.