This assignment asks you to apply ideas and materials discussed in class to develop a plan for your own socially engaged documentary project. This assignment will involve selecting a topic on which youd like to focus your documentary (e.g., climate change, the experiences of racialized immigrants living in Canada, Indigenous land reclamation efforts), and conducting preliminary research into that topic.
This assignment asks you to engage with and analyse relevant examples of documentary practice that might help you refine and further develop your sense of how best to structure and approach your documentary. For this component of the assignment, you will need to select TWO relevant examples (e.g., documentary films on related topics or using formal approaches you wish to explore), and develop a brief analysis of these examples, which takes up their strengths and limitations and considers how you might apply the insights they offer to structure your own documentary. The two examples you suggest should offer rich and varied material for analysis, complementing one another meaningfully rather than simply repeating or resembling one another unduly. For each example, you should consider the following questions: How does the text take up and represent the issue on which it focuses, and what are the
strengths, limitations, and implications of this representation? What specific choices does it make (e.g., in terms of structure, focus, use of documentary conventions/tactics, cinematography/editing/staging/sound), and what are the effects and implications of these choices?
How might you learn from and build on these examples in developing your own proposal (e.g., are there choices made in the films you wish to emulate, adapt, or avoid? How/why?)? Your final submission (which includes all of these components) should be ~. It should engage carefully with the details of the examples themselves, and draw meaningfully on at least 2-3 course readings (or other relevant scholarly sources) to support your analysis
Evaluation Criteria
Analyses of Relevant Examples will be assessed on the extent to which they:
Respond thoroughly & appropriately to all parts of the assignment requirements
Select rich and relevant examples that complement one another and connect meaningfully to your developing documentary proposal
Offer cogent, insightful, and incisive analyses that engage closely with specific details of the selected examples, and consider how these examples might be drawn on and/or adapted in shaping the final documentary proposal.
Work with and apply course readings (or other scholarship) effectively in service of the analysis
Demonstrate control of spelling, grammar, organization, and mechanics
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