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Week 4 Briefing

  • Writer: Tami
    Tami
  • Mar 22, 2021
  • 2 min read

Monday 22nd March 2021


Week 4 briefing


Firstly we went through the email that we were sent

It is important to get clarified

We should do work in preparation for coming back after Easter

Another meeting on Thursday to talk about after Easter timetable

I signed up to a tutorial with the tutor that did not give me the feedback from my project proposal first draft so that I can get another opinion on it. There is also a 1 to 1 tutorial with that tutor on Tuesday.

On Thursday at 10 am the contextual study essay is due

Evaluate against materials and processes

Research is really important, the integrated research should be throughout the project

as well as doing the proposal, you should also be doing the other writings and the testing and exploring

I fear I am doing this all wrong and not doing enough but how do I improve?


Project proposal help

Tutorial feedback -

I had a tutorial with my other tutor (the one who did not check my project proposal the first time), in order to get another opinion. The tutorial was very helpful. To improve my project proposal, she suggested that I mention documentary filmmakers and do research into documentary filmmakers. Which for some reason wasn't something that I had thought to do previously, so I looked into Michael Moore and Agnès Varda.


I also looked at the London Migration Film Festival and it's website which is pretty interesting. "London Migration Film Festival always includes a great number of fiction, short and documentary films focusing on the intersection of migration with themes such as climate emergency, integration, race, gender, representation, labour, friendship, family relations, tradition, war, and displacement. With the aim of portraying the diversity and humanity of migration, our film selection reflects the many forms in which migration takes place. "

It is not entirely linked to what I am doing but it is good to know that it is out there.


I also have to look into documentary filmmaking in interviewing specifically if I can. And look at migration and immigration and moving in general.

Some resources I looked at:

https://borgenproject.org/documentaries-about-migration/ - I looked at the documentaries and what they were about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgRAEUBtz3g 'Stranger in Paradise' the trailer, "A simple classroom is the setting for this complex exploration of the starkly relevant topic of mass global immigration."

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/aug/04/it-can-be-hard-to-keep-hope-behind-a-shocking-immigration-docuseries "The film-makers behind Netflix’s Immigration Nation talk about the difficulties they faced following Ice, an agency that intimidated them even after production ended"

This tutorial showed me that I still have a lot to look at and a lot to research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxFKkcUsSvE 'Small Axe' Trailer, "Based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community between 1969 and 1982, a collection of five films by Academy Award and Bafta-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen ."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofkWsxzUOI The Making of 'Into The Wild'

https://www.movingpeoplechangingplaces.org/identities-cultures/migration-in-film.html "Directors of different types of film – from Hollywood and Bollywood, to independent and art film – use the subject matter of migration, diasporas and identities to inform, entertain, educate, and provoke debate."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJKGZ_xSZ0 Is identity given or created?


I was also told that it would be beneficial to have practise interviews and think about what is documentary filmmaking and tell story through film. And I think that although Borat is a mockumentary, there is still a lot that can be learnt about how it was filmed.

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