This Week's Assignment: Edit 2 Scenes & Watch a Documentary Film

For this week's assignments, you are to:

1) Edit your "2 scenes" and post them HERE, the COURSE blog. If you are having trouble logging in, please email me and I will re-send your blog author invitation as sometimes they get sent to your spam folder. Please post by 9 am on Thursday, before our next class meeting.

2) Watch a documentary that has an interesting storytelling and VISUAL STYLE. You can watch one of my recommends listed here or something you find on your own, but it can't be just flatly framed "talking head" shot cut to (obvious) b-roll shot. Find some VISUAL INSPIRATION!

Here are some examples of VISUALLY COMPELLING docs that have all different sorts of stories, subject matter and are all examples of very creative forms of documentary storytelling:


MONTAGE OF HECK
2015 documentary film about Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain
directed by Brett Morgen
[available streaming on Amazon Video]

Here's the official trailer:




THE DEFIANT ONES
2017 four-part documentary series directed by Allen Hughes for HBO about Jimmy Iovine and his business and creative partnership with Dr. Dre and their famous Beats headphones deal
[available streaming on HBONow and HBOGo]

Here's the official trailer:




EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
2010 documentary directed by the elusive artist BANKSY about his street art and the mystery of Banksy's identity and the phenomenon of his street ar
[available streaming on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play]

Here's the official trailer:



13TH
2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay about race, justice and mass incarceration in the US
[available streaming on Netflix]

Here's the official trailer:



STORIES WE TELL
2012 documentary by actor/director Sarah Polley which explores family secrets and is about the nature of a story and the power of storytelling
[available streaming on Hulu, YouTube, Amazon Video ]

Here's the official trailer:



WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
2009 documentary directed by Ondi Timoner about the greatest (and perhaps most crazy) internet pioneer that you have never heard of which makes you think about privacy, social media and our modes of communication today... mixed with the insanity of "reality" on the internet
[available streaming on iTunes video and Amazon]

Here's the official trailer: