Category Archives: TV2 Critical Research

What makes a great documentary?

In last weeks tutorial we went down to the editing suites so that can Rohan could have a look at what we had done so far. This visit from Rohan was a real eye opener. I think because we had been so efficient and ahead of schedule in regards to shooting all our footage we [...]

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

After watching the brief clip from Scorses’s ‘No Direction Home’ the thing I immediately realised was the stark differences in the way Dylan is portrayed as opposed to D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary about Dylan ‘Don’t Look Back‘ In Pennebaker’s film, the portrait painted of Dylan is one of arrogance and vindictiveness. In ‘No Direction Home’ I [...]

Week 7 – 3 Point Lighting, Codec Problems & why I hate FCP

In this weeks tutorial Rohan went over the concept of 3 point lighting for us once again. Although we have not used lighting for any of our interviews so far, this weeks tutorial was quite useful as were planning on using lighting for our interview with David Astle. We will most likely be filming the [...]