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http://www.dreamsyncapp.com/2014/09/25/how-to-use-imovie-tutorials-for-beginners/

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Tips for recording good audio

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In this segment we show you how to prepare a recording booth and choose proper audio equipment. Once you know the ins and outs of recording and editing voice-overs, your narration will be solid and carry as much impact as the rest of your production. For more video production tips visit www.videomaker.com.

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Step 5: Record and create your documentary!

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Step 5: Record and create your documentary!

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Step 3: Selecting and connecting key points

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Step 3: Selecting and connecting key points

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Pick 3 key impacts that the Vikings had on Europe and focus on these in your documentary.

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Step 4: Organising and drafting your script

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Step 4: Organising and drafting your script

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Here is an example of how to format and organise your script

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https://sophia.smith.edu/blog/smithvideo/documentary/

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Watch the first minute of these documentaries to see how they begin their narrative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLgJmyJc9ns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtn-BZH_xU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qv0lh0GJsI

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The World at War  01 A New Germany 1933   1939

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Step 2: Considering how to write a script

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Step 2: Considering how to write a script

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What makes a great story? For legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, the answer is both complicated and personal. In this short documentary about the craft of storytelling, he explains his lifelong mission to wake the dead. Recently featured on The Atlantic. (http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2012/05/ken-burns-on-story/257165/) 

Directed by Tom Mason and Sarah Klein 
Music by Ryan Sayward Whittier 
Animation by Elliot Cowan

Check out the sequel to this piece, George Saunders: On Story: https://vimeo.com/143732791

Transcript for Closed Captioning
Ken Burns On Story Transcription

 

You know the common story is one plus one equals two, we get it.  But all stories are really, the real genuine stories, are about one and one equaling three.  That’s what I’m interested in. 

We live in a rational world where absolutely we’re certain that one and one equals two, and it does.  But the things that matter most to us, some people call it love, some people call it God, some people call it reason, is that other thing where the whole is greater than the some of its parts, and that’s the three. 
Oh great story, they are everywhere. There are millions of them!  Abraham Lincoln wins the Civil War and then he decides he’s got enough time to go to the theater.  That’s a good story.  When Thomas Jefferson said we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, he owned a hundred human beings and never saw the hypocrisy, never saw the contradiction, and more important, never saw fit in his lifetime to free any one of them.  That’s a good story.  You know the stories that I like to tell are always interesting because the good guys have really serious flaws and the villains are very compelling.  My interest is always in complicating things. 

Jean Luc Goddard said cinema is truth 24 times a second.  Maybe.  It’s lying 24 times a second too, all the time, all story is manipulation.  Is there acceptable manipulation?  You bet.  People say oh boy, I was so moved to tears in your film.  That’s a good thing?  That was, I manipulated that.  That’s part of storytelling.  I didn’t do it dis-genuinely, I did it sincerely, I am moved by that too, that’s manipulation.  Truth is we hope a byproduct of the best of our stories and yet there are many, many different kinds of truths and an emotional truth is something that you have to build.  

I made a film on baseball once and it seemed to me that there was a dilemma for the racist of what to do about Jackie Robinson.  If you were a Brooklyn Dodger fan and you were a racist, what do you do when he arrives?  You can quit baseball all together, you can change teams, or you can change.  And I think that the kind of narrative that I subscribe trusts in the possibility that people could change.  I hope it’s a positive version of manipulation, but I do think that we do coalesce around stories that seem transcendent. 

I don’t know why I tell stories about history I mean there’s kind of classic dime-store Ken Burns wolf-at-the door things, my mother had cancer all of my life, she died when I was 11, there wasn’t a moment from when I was aware, two-and-a-half, three, that there was something dreadfully wrong in my life.  It might be that what I’m engaged in, in a historical pursuit is a thin layer perhaps thickly disguised waking of the dead, that I try to make Abraham Lincoln and Jackie Robinson and Louis Armstrong come alive and it maybe very obvious and very close to home who I’m actually trying to wake up.  We have to keep the wolf from the door, you know, we tell stories to continue ourselves. We all think an exception is going to be made in our case and we’re going to live forever, and being a human is actually arriving at the understanding that that’s not going to be, story is there to just remind us that it’s just okay.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-vikings-it-wasnt-all-raping-and-pillaging-1643969.html

http://history.yale.edu/news/vikings-yale-historian-looks-myths-vs-history

https://www.oup.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/58077/IH8-SB-CH7-The-Vikings.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jngPAIGrzJs

http://www.flowofhistory.com/node/5342423.html?size=preview

http://www.penfield.edu/webpages/jgiotto/onlinetextbook.cfm?subpage=1501196

http://www.sourcinginnovation.com/archaeology/Arch07.htm

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Step 1: Researching and gathering information and resources

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Step 1: Researching and gathering information and resources

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To begin the process of making a 4 minute short documentary film you need to start researching.

I recommend you organise your information and resources in a timeline style graphic organiser. This will help you later on for creating a well structured narrative for your script.

Make sure you record all your resources: written, visual, video or audio.

You will have a double period to work on this as a group.