Watch Docs in class

We watched some interesting documentaries in class today, here are a few of my favourites:

• The 'Making of' Dark Days by Marc Singer

Particularly interesting to see the problems of making a documentary (even if its an entirely different type of documentary than we'll be making) and how he overcame various issues. I found this film online as soon as i got home and watched it, here's a link:
Dark Days

• Skateistan

Interesting to see one subject (skating) being used to explore more complicated issues (wars and overcoming female repression)

Their website

• The apology Line by James Lees

The film maker advertised a telephone number entitled 'the apology line' and posted it around a  city, he then used this collected audio and aded visuals onto it. This is different to other types of documentaries Ive seen before as previously i would expect all footage (visual and audio) to be real, whereas here only the audio is real. It is particularly interesting the stories people tell and i dont think the created imagery does the factual audio an injustice at al..