Our group is trying to narrow down our ideas for a documentary. We are planning on making one that has to do with hockey in Minnesota and show how Minnesota is the "State of Hockey". The trouble we are having is deciding if we want to focus on the professional level of hockey in Minnesota or more on the youth levels that build up to the pros. Also, we don't know if our topic fits into the category of a social issue that is required in the guidelines. I feel if we get a concrete idea we can make a very good documentary on this subject.
When reading the introduction, the sentence that stood out to me the most was:
"But documentary reflects the richness and ambiguity of the whole of life, and this takes it beyond objective observation". This statement gave me a whole new outlook on documentaries, that your idea needs to apply to the whole picture of life as well as the social issues that make up this life. It was also interesting to me how the author says documentary is wrongly labeled because practitioners disguise their biases. The label the author is talking about is thinking that documentary is objective.
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