Biography Presentations

Thank goodness the tutors decided to split up the groups further! Any more than 10 presentations at a time just gets too overwhelming. Plus, it's harder to give good feedback when you can hardly remember what someone has done, and are half a sleep/ need to pee really bad by the end of it all.

My presentation on the Maysles brothers went well. They suggested that I add in more video clips, and that makes sense, since they ARE film makers. The group enjoyed that I made my opinion on the Maysles clear- I don't get them, and I don't really care for them.

Suggestions for how to continue for the final project was to do my own take on one of their films- edit one of them (I'm thinking Grey Gardens) and make a "Morgan Cut". I could even make 2 or 3 trailers through editing the material and contrive a story that I find more interesting than the free- rolling camera style the Maysles use.

I start experimenting tomorrow! This should be interesting.