Class Animated Documentary

This course involves planning, producing, and implementing a documentary film, encouraging students to explore the role of animated images as a means of investigating the world around them/uniquely expressing reality as perceived by them. Through group work, the aim is to question the possibilities offered by cinema, in its animated forms, also in conveying stories/feelings/sensations, directly or indirectly experienced by them, as starting points. work will be supported by documentary, journalistic, or pedagogical strategies, but always original, on what surrounds us, using animation as a mediating element between constructed discourse and reality. The combination of techniques is encouraged. During this semester, the students shall learn to go from idea to project development and leading to producing a finished film.The relationship between the chosen theme and the end film must be comprehensible and cinematic, whilst respecting the personal views demonstrated by the groups.  

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1. Questions of image ontology: the real image and the animated image 2. Realism and documentary: is the documentary a record of reality or a construction of a particular vision of reality? Or both? 3. Can animated cinema "document" reality? What can animated documentary bring forth that is not available in live action documentary? 4. Strategies for using animation in a documentary context.  

These classes will be taught in person, but when necessary and appropriate, tutoring classes may be taught via video conferencing. To better monitor the students' work (by the teachers) and to ensure students are aware of their progress (this is the first film project they will undertake), the groups must maintain a whiteboard (Miro, Milanote, or another of their choosing with similar capabilities and free/open access), which will be reviewed and discussed by the teachers between classes. Professionals will be invited to participate in key phases of project monitoring, within the available physical resources.  

Adams (2009), "When Docs Get Graphic_ Animation Meets Actuality", in https://www.documentary.org/feature/when-documentaries-get-graphic-animation-meets-actuality  Formenti, C (2022) The Classical Animated Documentary and its Contemporary Evolution, Bloomsbury Hébert, Pierre (2021, ed. Pt. 2026). Tocar o Cinema (trad. rika Rodrigues e Marina Estela Graça Honess Roe (2013), Animated Documentary. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan  Honess Roe (2016), "Against Animated Documentary" in https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/article/view/5433 Serrazina (2020), "Notes towards the use of a documentary approach in the teaching of animation", in https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/article/view/5437  Sofian (2005), "The truth in pictures", in https://animateddocs.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/sheila-sofian-writes-about-anima-doc-in-fps-magazine/