Monday, December 5 - Thursday, December 8

Christmas Hink Pink Week !
A happy holiday plant.



Thursday
1. Room 100 to write response #2 for your literary fiction novel. Choose any 3 questions, but make sure you hit the 3 levels of reading with your choices of questions/discussion.
2. We will finish the camera shot viewings on Monday.
3. Try working with Videonot.es www.videonot.es/  Could this work for the documentary assignment? Using a clip of not more than 5 minutes, you would be pointing out techniques used your such as: sound, editing, music, juxtaposition of shots, etc.
4. Complete the two assignments below - one in pairs, one individually.

A brief rest for Santa.
Wednesday
Reminder about FridayDocs = Touching the Void at 10:20 this week.
1. Reading time for literary fiction. 
2. Group camera shots assignment. We finish these in class today, hopefully!
4. Conventions of a documentary. Review what we came up with yesterday.
5. TWO questions: What are the purposes of documentary films? Do documentary films tell the truth? http://www.pbs.org/pov/behindthelens/video/freida-lee-mock-2010/
6. List of interviews to watch. Pick ONE interview, watch it in pairs,  and answer the above 2 questions again in a t-chart format - one t-chart from the two of you.
8. Search the following site: http://www.pbs.org/pov/video/?subpage=filmmaker_interviews. Locate a filmmaker who interests you. Answer the following questions about your filmmaker: What specific kinds of filmmaking issues or challenges does the filmmaker consider? What are the filmmakers's main purposes for making a documentary films? What does the filmmaker think makes documentary films special or different from other media forms?

Natalia Almada

www.pbs.org/pov/elvelador/interview.php

Almada, who has made several films about Mexican history and life in the

U.S./Mexico border region, raises issues about documentary film as an art

form as well as the responsibility of a filmmaker to be sensitive to her

subjects. She also discusses sound editing and what choices best represent

the events she documented. (28 minutes)

Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker

www.pbs.org/pov/behindthelens/video_alvarezkolker.php

This pair of filmmakers, whose first POV film explored American

language and dialect, examines the difference between being “accurate”

and being “objective,” the role of humor and changes in technology. (16

minutes)

Alan Berliner

http://www.pbs.org/pov/behindthelens/video_alanberliner.php

Berliner, who uses home movies and his own family’s experiences to

explore what we all can “learn from the life of an ordinary person,” talks

about the value of storytelling and how he approaches filmmaking as if he

were assembling a collage. (23 minutes)

Katrina Browne

www.pbs.org/pov/tracesofthetrade/interview.php

A first-time filmmaker discusses her personal family journey, which

intersects with a major topic in American history (the slave trade), and

examines trust issues between filmmaker and subjects, as well as who gets

to tell stories and what difference it makes to have access to different

voices. (2 minutes)

Marshall Curry

www.pbs.org/pov/ifatreefalls/interview.php

The film Curry discusses here examines whether or not the Earth

Liberation Front is a terrorist organization. In the interview, he looks at the

balance between being a journalist, an artist and a storyteller who

purposefully includes conflicting perspectives in order to stretch people’s

points of view, “nudge” them out of their comfort zones and “elevate the

conversation a little bit and have people discuss it and think about it in a

more nuanced and more complex way.” (21 minutes)

Judith Helfand

www.pbs.org/pov/behindthelens/video_judithhelfand.php

Helfand, who has made films about women’s health and also important

events in U.S. history, explores the power of speaking from personal

experience. She explains how documentaries can be used to change and 

reform society and how films move viewers from inaction to action. She

also discusses the psychological and emotional impact of good films—

“Good films talk to people in ways that documents can’t”—and the perils

of revealing people’s private moments. (22 minutes)

Laura Poitras

http://www.pbs.org/pov/oath/video_interview.php

Poitras reflects on her extraordinary interview with Osama bin Laden’s

bodyguard and how using documentary film to listen to and humanize the

enemy can provide insights into “roads not taken.” (23 minutes)

Marco Williams and Whitney Dow

www.pbs.org/pov/twotownsofjasper/interview.php

This team explores reactions to a hate crime, how those reactions differed

by race and how their own race affected the filmmaking process. They

also discuss “intimate human stories that help explicate broader societal

issues” and how “documentaries are valuable tools for helping us better

understand the strengths and weakness of what it means to be human.”

They see their film as “challenging its viewers to confront difference, to

understand their differences and to compel them to talk and take action to

effect change in their lives, their communities, their/our world.”

A huge person who hates Christmas.
Tuesday
1. Reading time for literary ficiton. 
2. Group camera shots assignment. We will look at these in class today, hopefully!
4. Conventions of a documentary. 
5.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj9mJuh1zKY

A holiday donkey is a: __________    ___________
1. Reading time for literary ficiton. Response #2 is due on Thursday. We are in room 100 that day. Complete your response at that time - do not work on it outside of class.
2. Complete chart on Nanook of the North.
3. Complete your group's camera shots assignment. We will look at these in class tomorrow and Wednesday.
4. https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/10/11/bignattydaddy/