JRN 412 Lecture 1: What is a documentary
6 Feb 2018
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Learning objectives: become familiar with a wide range of documentaries dating back over 90 years, gain a sophisticated understanding of directorial styles. Challenges of documentary: copyright issues, black and white docs, poor audio, sitting still for up to 2 hours for a screening, will require patience. First attempts at animation: 1650s: magic lantern, painted pictures on sheets of glass, a lens and a bright light source, used to show animation for entertainment, projected onto a screen or wall. Zoetrope: early 19th century, produces the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion, could look at animation of a bird flying or a horse galloping. First movie ever screened plus do(cid:272)u(cid:373)e(cid:374)tary a(cid:374)d wei(cid:271)o"s war. I(cid:374) 1(cid:1012)(cid:1013)5, (cid:862)workers lea(cid:448)i(cid:374)g the fa(cid:272)tory(cid:863) (cid:271)y the lu(cid:373)iere brothers, auguste a(cid:374)d louis. Lumiere: term first coined by john grierson in 1926, a documentary is a broad term to describe a non-fiction movie that in some way.
