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“Stranger With A Camera” Reflection
I found Elizabeth Barret’s documentary work “Stranger With A Camera” very interesting. I like the way she told the story by narrating in the background while also incorporating interviews, and old video footage. She stated that as a filmmaker she wanted to show her community as it was, in order to protect the community. Her goal while being a film maker was to be truthful when documenting the experiences of others. By directing this film it caused Barrett to generate interesting questions one being, can filmmakers show poverty without causing social embarrassment? A message I took from Barret was that media images are powerful and they can cause conflicting emotions.…
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Chapter One- “The Work”
In Robert Coles book called, Doing Documentary Work a passage that I found interesting in Chapter one was, “I was affirming what takes place all the time in human affairs: our connectedness (in this case as teacher and student), our membership (even if temporary) in whatever “community” we are trying to “study,” and thus our ability, our inclination, our need to accommodate ourselves to one another, and our participation in what we aim to observe— our participation, obviously, as well, in what we thereafter document or give to others as a stimulus for their participation” (Coles 44). Coles is explaining that within the process of documenting and observing others, documentarians…
