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Performance Mode: Coffee We Smell

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December 12, 2013 by branck

As I thought about what I would do for my documentary mode project centered around the performance mode, I thought …
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Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Fans Discuss

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December 12, 2013 by branck

For the final documentary project, I decided to focus on something that I am completely familiar with in order to …
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Autobiographical Band Photo Essay

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December 11, 2013 by branck

This series of photos is meant to represent the Brian Ranck that existed in high school. The Brian Ranck that …
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Observational Trip Across Japan

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December 11, 2013 by branck

Bill Nichols claims that the observational mode of documentary filmmaking is merely showing what occurs in front of the camera …
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Expository Mode: Stranger with a Camera

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December 11, 2013 by branck

In 1967 filmmaker Hugh O’Conner was shot and killed in eastern Kentucky while filming a movie entitled “US” about the …
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Reflexivity and Memory: “Stories We Tell”

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December 11, 2013 by branck

Sarah Polley’s film entitled “Stories We Tell” gives an incredibly creative look into autobiographical film making, with touches of the …
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A Meditation on Participatory and Reflexive Documentaries (A.K.A. Chronicle of a Bummer)

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November 5, 2013 by branck

At the onset of the 1960’s, new technologies in film recording and audio recording allowed for film makers to work …
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Nanook of the North: Who’s Telling the Story?

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October 23, 2013 by branck

In Bill Nichols’ book, he discusses the three commonsense assumptions about documentary films. The third assumption discussed in Nichols’ book …
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Leni Riefenstahl’s ‘huge’ success

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October 1, 2013 by branck

“Next to Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, Leni Riefenstahl was the most technically talented Western film maker of her era”. …
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