09/29/2016

Plan for today: 
1. Attendance / Announcements
2. Powerschool check 





INC:
History of documentary film
What is a "documentary" to you? 

Oxford Dictionary:
A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.

1870s -1880s - Impressionism - paintings of "modern life," the natural world, un-constructed scenes. 


Pre-impressionism -- Historical, religious, constructed paintings -- 

Alexandre Cabanel - Death of Moses - 1851



Impressionism

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette





1897 - A boxing match
filmed by Enoch Rector




1900 - 1920 Travelogue films - Moscow Clad in Snow (1908)




1911 With Our King and Queen through India -- first "kinemacolor" film - Invented by Charles Urban




1920s -- Documentaries became more "idealistic" through Romanticism - a movement to glorify nature, the human condition, unstructured life (sound familiar -- Impressionism was a part of Romanticism!)




Example: First full-feature documentary: Nanook of the North (1922) by Robert J. Flaherty

Heavily staged for "true man vs. nature" -- 

-- He had his subjects shoot a walrus with a harpoon instead of a nearby shotgun

-- He built igloos whereas many of them lived in constructed westernized cabins.


Beginning of Nanook of the North








Planner reminder: Rough draft of Out of My Mind project (purple handout)

Plan for today:
1. Hand back graded work
2. Rough draft of OOMM project work time / handwriting practice
3. Catchphrase