Download - Ts2012, week11
Agenda
Blogging tips
Editing interviews
Examples of interactive documentaries
1. The next day
2. Bear 71
Kate discusses the difficulty of
recruiting interviewees, and what
possible solutions might be
Sonia has found a relevant
infographic – a great way to
present documentary research
(if you’re not doing video)
• Also relevant to editorial text
Voice overs have three main purposes - to introduce or frame
your content, to connect pieces of content together (a segue)
and to editorialise on interview and other material.
We've probably all felt that we needed a voice over one time
or other when in fact we didn't.
• Introduction - fine, but try to keep it as brief as possible
• Segues - voiceover segues can be avoided by use of different
music to indicate a new direction, or subtitles. A voiceover is
also perfectly fine, so long as (1) you're not just stating the
obvious, and (2) the segue is well-written and brief.
Voiceover principles for
participatory docos
• Editorialising - to be avoided in a participatory doco.
If you are a community member, you have a right to add in
your own opinion, but try not to have it come across as 'the truth'. If
you are not a community member, try to limit your voice overs to
segues (if necessary) or perhaps some introductory framing comments.
Otherwise you disempower your community.
Voiceover principles for
participatory docos
• There are lots of ways to add interactivity.
• But not all of it is particularly significant.
• In these four docos, which of them do you think has significant
interactivity, and why?
Interactive docos
Rob discusses recent legal and
political events of interest to
Australian internet users.
http://thenextday.nfb.ca
The next day
http://bear71.nfb.ca/ - /bear71
Bear 71
http://insidedisaster.com/experience/
Inside the Haiti
Earthquake
http://walking-the-edit.net/
Walking the Edit