Connor Winfield TV production

For the pre-production of my project, I needed to watch some relevant documentaries to see what the techniques used in them were, and how they can be used effectively.Doing this is much better than reading about the techniques, as I am able to get a better sense of how to use them and the effects that they can cause. I also wanted to try and find some examples to watch that where spaced out in time, rather than being set and filmed near the same year. I feel that doing this can greatly help me, as it will allow me to see how the documentary genre has changed its way of filming over the years. I also want to find documentaries with a similar focus to mine, being a social issue or inspiration, because if I start taking notes on how a wildlife documentary uses certain techniques, it is not going to help me out as much as something more similar to mine. The first documentary that I watched was called 'The Centre' , and was released in 1948, and was a Central Office of Information

In order to be able to produce a higher quality of work for my documentary, I need to understand fully what a documentary is, and why and how the key elements in the genre are used.  The start of documentaries was around the same time as the birth of film. However, they were a lot different to how they are today. When documentaries were first being made, they were simply a way of capturing a moment on film, simple things like a boat docking or a train pulling into a station. The Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, shot many of these short films, most lasting less than a minute since that was all that film making was capable of at the time. Almost all of their work is incredibly influential due to it being a starting point for film to evolve from, and traits can be seen in films since. One example of this is in their film 'Demolition of a Wall' , which was the first film to have reverse motion in it. The film plays normally at first, then after the wall is made to fall, the f