This is your final video project. For this project you will be making a documentary about someone you see everyday but don't know them by name or don't know them well. For example this person could be a neighbor, or someone you see while walking to the station every morning, A shop owner, a customer, anyone you see regularly and would notice if they were gone but you really don't know much about them. Everyone has a story to tell and documentary film making allows you to find out and tell about other people's stories.
The Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. The documentary has had eight episodes spanning 49 years (one episode every seven years) and the documentary has been broadcast on both ITV and BBC. In a 2005 Channel 4 programme, the series topped the list of The 50 Greatest Documentaries.
Nanook of the North was filmed from 1920-1921 in Port Harrison, Northern Quebec by Robert Joseph Flaherty.
This was the first successful documentary ever made, and was a true benchmark for ethnographic film.
Robert Flaherty brought and entirely unknown culture to the western world.
This Movie documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit) and his family.