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individual assessment

In the beginning, we’ve had interest on the online documentaries. Since then, none of our group members had clear understanding of what the online documentaries were. so starting from the question of “How has online documentary changed the forms of content  and distribution?”. then  we have came up with “How has new media changed the [...]

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Title:
The Australian constitution : a documentary history /

Main Author:
Williams, John M. (John Matthew),

Publisher:
Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2005.

Description:
xv, 1288 p. : ill., ports ; 31 cm.

Location:
Swanston Library Reference Collection

Call Number:
REF 342.94024 W724

Number of Items:
1

Status:
Available

Title:
The big picture : documentary film-making in Australia : papers from the 2nd Australian Documentary Conference, 29 November-2 December 1991.

Conference:
Australian Documentary [...]

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some of the filmmakers ?!?

Tsilimidos, Alan, 1993/94, “A day in the life: The work of a film director”, Metro, No. 96, Summer, 53-4.
Stott, Jennifer, 1995, “Out of the mainstream: Australian Documentaries and shorts in the USA”, Media Information Australia, No. 76, May, 30-4.

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During the 1980/81 financial year, which marked the beginning of the 10BA tax concession period for film and television production in Australia, total production expenditure was $60.33 million, of which 0.5% was spent on documentary productions, 96%, on features and 3.5% on telemovies and mini-series.
The peak of the 10BA period around 1984/85, saw funds secured [...]

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Survey questionaire

reason for the survey: to see how the documentaries online are consumed and how they are accepted by people.
Questions to be asked with the survey
1. what genre of documentaries do you like to watch on-line?
(give multiples)
2. what genre  of documentaries do you like to watch on video or television?
(give multiples)
3. if what you like to watch [...]

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useful links

-survey online
http://surveycentral.org/
-description of 6 types of documentaries
http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2006/12/six-types-of-documentary.html
-about Australian documentary
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/doco/ozdoco/facts.htm
-total no of project financed through division
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/doco/ozdoco/tenbb.htm

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questions in focus

History of doco to contextualise the online documentary. How content of traditional doco differs in the model of online doco? What new voices emerge?”
WHAT?

documentary developments (focusing Australia)

were there any major political, social changes that had influences the nature of doco?
who were the main Australian documentary film makers? what were their main topics/themes

look at the development of [...]

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origin of documentary

The word “documentary” was first applied to films of this nature in a review of Robert Flaherty’s film Moana (1926), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926 and written by “The Moviegoer”, a pen name for documentarian  John Grierson. 
In the 1930s
Grierson’s principles of documentary were that cinema’s potential for observing life could [...]

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Academy Awards: Best Documentary Feature
2005 – An Inconvenient Truth
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
IFormer Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his [...]

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few web-sites to look at.

well, as it was discussed previously,
there is nothing original,
but to develop it through geniously,
so I got started by looking at what it is out there online,
how the places are introduced, so we can see whether anything looks interesting and we can use to discover more on the places.
first website is on the government registered heritage [...]

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