documentary/coursework/quotes

1. "Documentaries awaken a desire not just for information but for insight, understanding, and intimacy. We want the camera to take us some place we haven't"
2. "We want the camera to take us some place we haven't been and show us something we haven't seen, and we want it to do so in a way which "gives" us the experience."
'Montage of Heck' and 'Kurt and Kourtney' involve personal and intimate home videos. 
Anne Fischel ~ Engagement & the Documentary ~ Contemporary Media, 1989, 2006


Chris: "I find musicians really inspiring. Someone who has real music ability is very special and it’s great to capture this. Music and film just go together so well."
in relation to 'Montage of Heck' contrast between the life of Kurt and the development of his musical success.
Chris Hegedus (documentary filmaker) ~ Rockumentary ~ Article Written By: Helen Dugdale This article first appeared in MediaMagazine 6, December 2003

"Traditionally, documentary's starting place has been the filmmaker's desire to know a subject or a way of life with which s/he is unfamiliar."
used to explain that the documentary film maker's starting place is neither of these but to give the watchers/ audience insight to the development, life and sudden end to the life of Kurt Cobain. 
 March, 1989, pp. 35-40
copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1989, 2006 Anne Fischel

"when a documentary 'speaks about' something, when 'we speak about it to you,' for example it speaks through it's composition of shots, its editing together of images and its use of music, among other things."
very relevant to the importance and composition of both 'Montage of Heck' and 'Kurt and Kourtney,' concerning the music used, images and videos displayed including home videos, also the shots used when reenacting Kurt's childhood with animation.  all of these factors played a dynamic and important part throughout the documentary, to capture the essence and angelic yet disturbing mood of the documentary. 
Bill Nicholls ~ What gives documentary films a voice of there own 

"the voice of documentary makes us aware that someone is speaking to us from their own perspective about the world we hold in common with that person."

Bill Nichols - introduction to documentary

• "Voice, then, is a question of how the logic, and perspective, of a documentary is conveyed to us."
• "documentaries are not documents. they may use documents and facts, but they always interpret them."
• "distinct, cinematic mode:- documentaries adopt models such as the expository or observational mode" - "documentaries select and arrange sounds and images in distinct ways, using specifically cinematic techniques and conventions." (applies to both documentaries especially 'Montage of Heck' in relation to cinematic techniques and conventions. 
• "we looks in on life as it is lived"
• "the observational mode poses a series of ethical considerations that involve the act of observing others go about their affairs."
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