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The Athletic Pandemic
During the brainstorming process for my project, I wanted to choose a topic that my peers, as well as myself, could relate to. My mind immediately went to the idea of how the pandemic affected athletes immediately. This is because everyone has been affected by the pandemic in different ways especially in the realm of…
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A Strange Social Documentary
Stranger with a Camera a documentary by filmmaker Elizabeth Barret, function as a social documentary in multiple ways. In the past decade, mobile media technology has evolved, social media has become widespread, and new types of media are being encountered every day. This has led to the evolution of new ways to interact with documentary…
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60 Second Documentary: COVID 14
In the process of creating this project, I wanted to interview people who have been affected in many different ways by COVID. Having lost not only her junior season of lacrosse, but also her season with her club team, Lisa is the appropriate person for this role. My project reveals my social location because my…
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Lange’s location has her lost in the moment
Lange utilizes her forms of photography to not only expose the living conditions of Americans during the Great Depression but create awareness of different parts of the country. Through her photography, she traveled coast to coast and captured her perspective. By “making fine pictures of a very wonderful subject” she means to draw attention to…
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Stranger with a Camera focusing on location
A crucial element of the documentary is location because of the delicate differences between the two subjects as well as Barrett’s own location. Living in one of the poorest parts of the country, the people of Jeremiah, Kentucky always had filmmakers and reporters filming them. They found it to be dehumanizing. Some people felt they…
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Blog Post #2:A Discussion of the Documentary Approaches used by Robert Coles and Bill Nichols
Both authors Nichols and Coles agree that documentaries reflect real events and people in a mostly objective manner. However, in regard to subjectivity, Coles states,“The issue, finally, becomes one of judgment, and thereby a subjective matter: an opinion of someone whose mind has taken in all that information, that documentation, and then given it the…
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Blog Post #1: The effect of location in Strong Island
When Robert Coles talks about location, he does not necessarily mean the geographic location of something but rather how it is influenced by the environment in which it is situated. Taking into consideration the location in the film Strong Island as seen by Cole, there is a great deal of impact on how the documentary…
