Our new module is on documentaries and of course we all are aware of documentaries. I feel I have watched quite a few good documentaries however my knowledge of animated documentaries was very rudimental. Other than creature comforts I struggled to name many others. It was really interesting to see such a wide range of animations that were documentaries but also what constituted a documentary. Many of the ones we were shown didn't feel like a conventional documentary as a narrative was still very important however these narratives are from real life experiences.
I think the main thing we learnt was that there are things animation can do for documentaries a lot better than if they were done with live action. Some issues are very hard to talk about with live action people may feel a lot more uncomfortable being in or watching the subject matter when its live action.
Another thing that was brought up was that documentary making was a great chance to explore mixed media animation. I found the animation about peoples virginity stories the most interesting mainly because if the use of media to help capture the mood of the narrative. Someone with a very bland relationship had very clean line work where as someone who had a very negative experience it was very dark and messy.
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