The Filmmaking Journey of Tom Swales

Research Types of  documentary Once I was given this assignment, I began doing research into the different types of documentaries. During the research process I learnt all the terms of different documentary. A   dramatization documentary   is a re-enactment of certain events as a documentary, an example of this is True Crime.   Expository documentary   has a narrator, narrating over footage, an example of this is Planet earth and The Blue planet. These documentaries are the most popular for audiences with expository documentary’s, often to do with the narrator David Attenborough.  Observational   is another style of documentary, with the crew not getting involved and just observing certain events (like a fly on the wall).  The final style of documentary is   participatory , this is where the filmmaker is included in the films narrative and directly interacts with the film’s subjects. Often these terms can be used more than once in documentari...

  Link -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M02HRf3lxaI For the February film challenge we had to create a sixty second short film around the theme of "A New normal". This short film features this theme as the dogs new normal was not getting played with. The inspiration behind this idea was I wanted to see a lockdown perspective but from a dog's view and what a dog's new normality is during lockdown. This was the first idea that allowed me to develop and create this short film. Another part of this task was to feature something broken which is shown near the end when he breaks the picture frame of the boy and his dog. Showing that his dog is a special part of his life.