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Workshop Session One
Saturday, November 9. 9:30 A.M.
"Mining
the Material: Researching Visual Archives" Natalie
Bullock Brown "Collaboration
or Compromise: Negotiating Boundaries in Documentary Fieldwork" Charlie
Thompson "Telling
Your Story: Finding Your Place in the Documentary Film Tradition" Randy
Benson
Producer and Correspondent
for UNC-TV
RICHARD
WHITE LECTURE HALL (007)
Don’t know where to start when you consider the vast topic of archival
research? Learn from an expert! Natalie Bullock Brown spent three-and-a-half
years as an associate producer on the recent Ken Burns Jazz documentary series.
She’ll share her experiences, direct you to resources, and help you plan
your search.
Education and Curriculum Director, Center for Documentary Studies
WEST DUKE 08A
Drawing on his recent experiences working on a documentary on the lives of migrant
farmworkers in North Carolina, Charlie Thompson will discuss the process of
building community relationships, working with governmental institutions, and
fieldwork scenarios that raise the question of "collaboration or compromise."
Award-winning documentary filmmaker
WEST DUKE 101
Your nonfiction story can be told in many ways using numerous techniques: cine
vérité, archival footage, photos, interviews, and re-creations,
to name a few. Is your film a personal doc? A portrait, an experimental, propaganda?
This workshop will discuss story ideas and the tradition/ conventions of nonfiction
film to help the filmmaker fulfill his/her vision. Workshop participants are
encouraged to share ideas about their projects.
Workshop Session
Two
Saturday, November
9. 1:30 P.M.
"Documentary
Dos and Don'ts" Christine
Choy
Happening Featured Filmmaker
RICHARD WHITE LECTURE HALL (007)
Workshop Session
Three
Saturday, November 9. 4:45 P.M.
"Pixelslingers
and Storytellers: Independent Distribution on the Web Moderated
by Nancy Kalow
Folklorist, Filmmaker, Technophile, Teacher at the Center for Documentary
Studies, and Former Host of the Filmmaking Conference on the WELL, the Vanguard
Online Community
RICHARD
WHITE LECTURE HALL (007)
A lively introduction to video on the web with three experts: Happening featured
filmmaker Christine Choy, CDS certificate student and Internet guru John Davis,
and indie documentary webmeister Rob Roberts. We’ll look at some examples
and consider how independent filmmakers can use new delivery technologies to
bring their docs to a wider audience.
"Critical Reflexivity in Documentary Filmmaking John
L. Jackson
Film Producer, Urban Anthropologist, and Faculty Member of Duke's Department
of Cultural Anthropology
WEST DUKE 101
This workshop will examine what reflexivity can/cannot provide to contemporary
nonfiction filmmakers. There are more and less rigorous ways to incorporate
one’s own subjectivity into the filmmaking process, and John Jackson will
use several filmic and ethnographic examples to flesh that out.
"How to Get Good Sound" Ben
Turney and Josh Gibson
Turney, Freelance Film and Video Audio Recordist and Gibson, Assistant Director
and Instructor, Duke Program in Film/Video/Digital
WEST DUKE 08A
Good sound can make or break documentary footage. What’s the best way to
mike an interview? To collect sounds from the field? What are the benefits of
an audio mixer? Ben Turney and Josh Gibson will answer your questions and get
you started on the right track.
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