This morning, please watch the rest of Bowling for Columbine. When you are finished, please complete the following two tasks:
1. Post your response to the film to your blog. What did you think of the film? Would you recommend it? What did you learn about documentaries from watching this film? What do you think about the topic? Explore your own reaction to the film: what did you like, dislike, find interesting, find troubling, etc. Response.
2. After completing your response, working in groups of 1-3 please gather together or alone to come up with an idea for your own documentary. Follow the steps and watch the model student films below for ideas.
Sample of previous SOTA creative writing documentaries:
After you have researched your topic a bit, you should decide what KIND of documentary you intend to make. You have various options. Pick one of the five types from above. If you are going to begin interviewing, write a few questions you will ask all of your interviewees. If you are done currently with research, use the rest of the lab time to begin writing a VOICE OVER script. Remember that, just like in fiction, speech writing, or poetry, you want to HOOK our attention.
Use your time in the lab today to begin preparing and planning your film.
During the last 10 or 5 minutes of the class we will be taking a quiz on documentary styles, journalism vocabulary, and chapters 1-3 of Chew on This from your notes and reading.
HOMEWORK: Please read chapters 4-5 of Chew on This.
1. Post your response to the film to your blog. What did you think of the film? Would you recommend it? What did you learn about documentaries from watching this film? What do you think about the topic? Explore your own reaction to the film: what did you like, dislike, find interesting, find troubling, etc. Response.
2. After completing your response, working in groups of 1-3 please gather together or alone to come up with an idea for your own documentary. Follow the steps and watch the model student films below for ideas.
Sample of previous SOTA creative writing documentaries:
- On the Rail by Austen Hammond (10th grader)
- Post Mortem (2011 winner of the High Falls Film Festival Young Filmmaker's Award)
- Travel Bowling by Jack Scardino (2010)
- Kadisha Philips: The Nicki Syndrome (2010) & Teen Point of View: Teens Around the World (2010)
- Another student film (Interactive Documentary style): One Girl At a Time (Kyle Cox--not a SOTA student...)
After you have researched your topic a bit, you should decide what KIND of documentary you intend to make. You have various options. Pick one of the five types from above. If you are going to begin interviewing, write a few questions you will ask all of your interviewees. If you are done currently with research, use the rest of the lab time to begin writing a VOICE OVER script. Remember that, just like in fiction, speech writing, or poetry, you want to HOOK our attention.
Use your time in the lab today to begin preparing and planning your film.
During the last 10 or 5 minutes of the class we will be taking a quiz on documentary styles, journalism vocabulary, and chapters 1-3 of Chew on This from your notes and reading.
HOMEWORK: Please read chapters 4-5 of Chew on This.
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