The History section contextualises the development of documentary, and how this has lead to the emergence of online documentaries. We use an interactive timeline to illustrate the development of documentary as a media genre throughout the past century.
John Grierson first coined the term “documentary” in the 1920’s and now we are seeing the need for [...]
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My oral part for final presentation
Posted in MI1 on June 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
findings about documentary in Australia
Posted in MI1 on June 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Documentary originated by Lumiere brothers who took shoots of daily life, including their famous shot of the train entering the platform. Documentary was referred as non-fiction films.
Over the period of time, the original meaning or the definition of documentary had been re-invented. And new generations of documentary makers have challenged the forms and conventions by [...]
history and stats on Australian documentary
Posted in MI1 on June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
According to AFC’s report on Documentary production in Australia 2007,
In the past, there were 1522 producers, 1336 Directors and 1462 writers within 2796 documentaries produced in Australia.
Currently, there are 385 producers, 311 directors and 281 writers making documentary films or programs.
Analysis of the producer, director and writer credits for documentaries made in the period between [...]
Some of the definitions for documentary
Posted in MI1 on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Documentary is the creative treatment of actuality.”
- John Grierson, Cinema Quarterly 22.1, 8.
“Documentary defines not subject or style, but approach. … Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsmanship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put.”
-Paul Rotha, Cinema Quarterly, 2.2, 78.
“A non-fiction text using ‘actuality’ [...]
history of doco in Aus
Posted in MI1 on May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pre-1900, The French used the term documentary to refer to any non-fiction films, especially for travelogues and instructional films. The earliest non-fiction moving pictures were single-shot moments with a minute or less than a minute length of a train entering a station or a boat docking or a factory of people getting off work. Due [...]
Websites, which broadcast or distribute films online
Posted in MI1 on May 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
¬There are 15 Websites, which broadcast or distribute films online.
# ABC Online (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
ABC Online provides a diverse range of information, entertainment and interaction drawing on the ABC’s television, radio and other production activities. Content includes daily news updates, program guides and highlights, youth, children’s, education, science, arts and culture, information for program makers [...]
individual assessment
Posted in MI1 on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
books on Australian documentary history
Posted in MI1 on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
some of the filmmakers ?!?
Posted in MI1 on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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.
some of the stats about documentary in Australia
Posted in MI1 on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
