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The Greatest Show: Woman
The Making of the Documentary I faced a lot of challenges while making this documentary. I struggled to focus my ideas since I had so many. Once I settled on an idea, I struggled to fit it into the guidelines of documentary making for a very long time. I had a friend willing to be…
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Documentary Journal #1
Initially, I wanted to continue with the idea I had for the first documentary and try to capture the pockets in a college student’s life that may showcase the tensions between being a child and being an adult. For my initial doc, I used stuffed animals to signify holding onto one’s childhood in times of…
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Facing Discomfort: The Self- Conclusive Nature of I Didn’t See You There
Reid Davenport’s I Didn’t See You There takes the viewer through a day in his life as a disabled man, portraying his experience of living with a disability. Rather than framing his daily challenges as obstacles to be overcome, Davenport’s approach is both simple and profound—he simply positions himself as a filmmaker, filming his life.…
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Unmade
My location as someone who struggles with change and growing up, layered with being an international student far from home and the ability revisit my parents whenever I miss them, shapes me into someone that clings onto the smaller things like stuffed animals that remind me of when I was a kid and the safety…
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Voice in Documentaries
“The issue, finally, becomes one of judgement, and thereby a subjective matter: an opinion of someone whose mind has taken in all that information, that documentation, and then given it the shape of sentences, of words used, with all their suggestive possibilities.” (Coles, p. 21) King Coal by Elaine McMillion Sheldon seems to me, at…