Hello and welcome to Journal#8 – Meshes of the Afternoon and Documentary. For this week, you have been asked to watch Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren and choose a documentary from a list of ten.
Documentary List:
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
13th (2016)
The First Monday In May (2016)
Man On Wire (2008)
78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (2017)
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)
Wig (2019)
Paris Is Burning (1990)
For this Journal, watch Meshes of the Afternoon and ONE of the above ten choices and then answer the following questions for each.
Meshes of the Afternoon:
1. What is the story of this film? What is the film about? What is the film trying to say?
2. How did this film affect you? Did you like it? Were you invested? Why or why not?
3. What will you take away from this film?
Documentary:
1. Have you ever seen a documentary before? If so, what was it and what was your experience? If not, why not?
2. Based on your understanding of how to identify a Documentary, what are 3 moments in the film that specifically have that documentary style? (You MUST have 3 SPECIFIC examples from the film – please refer back to the Viewings for a list of this terminology, and then apply it to the scene)
3. How did this documentary balance information and entertainment? How did it engage you?
4. What did you learn from this documentary? Did you feel that this documentary effectively covered its chosen topic?
5. Did anything about the production of this documentary surprise you? What aspects of the production were different from other documentaries that you might have seen?
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