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

n    One paragraph about topic concept

n    One abstract of sources related to the subject

n    Bibliography– twenty sources

n    Books, people

 Research Paper

n    10 pages

n    APA

n    Due the fourth and fifth week.

 Documentary Proposal

Chapter eight

Differences between the paper and the documentary proposal.

 Spring Break

 Shoot, Shoot, Shoot