Eco-School: Documentary Film Making

10th July 2019

L/O: To explore the conventions and purpose of documentary film making

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspects of reality, primarily for the purpose of instructional, educational or maintaining a historical record.

What is the purpose of documentary film making?

The purpose of making documentaries is to document important information about important events.

What are the common conventions of documentary film making in terms of imagery, sound, editing and mise-en-scene?

The common conventions of a documentary is/are : Images ( Moving and still ), Sound( Music, voice overs, sound effects ), Editing( Cut parts of the recording that don't fit or aren't up to quality, to put sound over the top of clips ), Mise-en-scene( The arrangement of the props/reporters on the screen )

Why is this particular documentary important in terms of raising awareness of the natural world?

This documentary is important because it explains how city's are changing the way animals live and this can be effecting them in a bad or good way, good because it is easier for species to find food, bad because they forget how to hunt for food and how baby turtles go up onto the beaches towards the city's lights in steed of towards the moons light.

Write a 150 - 300 word pitch for a documentary idea of your choice. It needs to be raise awareness of an environmental issue of your choice. explain where it would be set and what sort of things you would want to include.

My documentary idea is a 3 part each an hour long discussing what and where deforestation is occurring in part 1, where part 2 would go on to discus why and how and when it occurs and then finally part 3 would go on for 1 hour - 1 hour and a half, and would explain how we can stop it and help the environment by planting more trees and where to plant them, E.G. in 'Vertical forests' and in locations where deforestation occurred, why we should stop deforestation on a very large scale, and how small amounts of deforestation ( about 50 trees ) is acceptable, and finally in part 3 there would be by when we should have stopped deforestation E.G. What Year and what would happen if we didn't