Mary Jackson Pitts, Ph.D.

mpitts@astate.edu

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 Broadcast Documentary

Dr. Mary Jackson Pitts

 What is a documentary?

n      The broadcast documentary is designed to show life as it really is.  It is a means of communicating words, images or human behavior.

n     " the modern documentary….shows events and authorial reactions as they happen so there is the same feeling of spontaneity and adaptation that we experience in the heightened moments of our own lives.(Rabiger, p.5).

History of Documentary

n    Understanding the theory behind documentary

Semester Plan

n    Scheduling

n   Research

n   Knowing your subject

n   Library

n   Your topic

 Ethnographic

n    Knowing your subjects

Next week  January 18th

n    Develop two topic ideas for your project.

n    Bibliography– twenty sources for each topic area

n     Books, people

 Research Paper

n    10 pages

n    Rough draft due February 1

n    APA

n    Pick up rough draft February 3

n    Turn in final paper

n    Due February 8^th.

 Documentary Proposal 

ⁿ      Due February 15^th

n    Chapter 15

n    Differences between the paper and the documentary proposal.

 Spring Break

 Shoot, Shoot, Shoot

Consultation

Final product

Paper

Working Proposal

Script

Shooting schedule

Final Product

Editing schedule

Shot sheets

Editing sheets

Final documentary  (due April 24)

DVD

SVHS

Mini DV