Poetic Style Notes

For our first film we were given the brief to create a 2 minute short poetic documentary. In seminars we watched several different poetic documentaries, allowing us to see how to create a successful poetic doc. We then knew how we would want our film to look and could come up with a plan in terms of cinematography, editing and sound.

 Poetic documentary follows several different conventions.

• A subject view can be given by the documentary maker
• it doesn't follow a typical narrative structure
• mood and tone is enhanced by music
• may have light rhetoric
• can be seen as experimental

Given these conventions we decided to use little sync sound, and use more archive footage of our subject. We also have decided we will use 2 different types of music to reinforce the mood we are trying to create with our voice over.