Today in class we watched a documentary.
I am still unsure of the name (Edit: It is called Forgotten Silver) but it was a film about a man named Colin Mckenzie and he was introduced as the inventor of film. The documentary was about his life and how his movies/films came to age. My peers and I were very involved in the documentary and we thought that we learnt a lot from the film.
Unfortunately, at the end of the film, our teacher had told us that the entire documentary was a lie and that it was really a 'mockumentary'. We all felt cheated after knowing this and reflected back at the information that was given to us in the last hour. When looking back it was quite clear that a lot of the information seemed a little bit dodgy and a lot of it didn't make sense.
We thought this was very clever, but really what we were being showed was the style of the documentary and how one is filmed and put together. I found that a very funny and creative way to teach us this lesson.
29/01/16
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