WWII Documentary: Memories of War
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- From school girls to soldiers, this documentary explores how the people from a small English town managed to find their way while the world seemed hell-bent on tearing itself apart.
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Is it okay if i use this as an example for my archival footage work for media studies? :) I really enjoyed this! keep up the great work!!
Yes. Please credit it somehow but you're welcome to use it!
Hello Bill, i`m gonna show this doc in my archive seminar tomorrow as an example for how to use archive footage. Could you tell me a little more about this film and how it came to be? Are you a film student? What was the process?
Hey Stella, that's great!
I actually made a whole video about the use of archive so I'll link that here: ua-cam.com/video/0bb01janfuw/v-deo.html
I'm not a film student but I volunteered at a museum that wanted to document local experiences of WWII before they were lost.
The subjects were asked set questions but the conversations often went in unexpected directions and people were chosen that had specific experiences. During editing, I looked for themes and connections and then tried to construct the film so that the different interviews would complement each other and build towards a personal revelation that the audience could share. The archive was intended to enhance or emphasise this in a way that made the experience feel tangible rather than distant history.
Let me know how the class goes I hope it's helpful!
@@BillThisdell Hey, thanks for your insight:) The class had some valid points to make about your documentary, that i would like to share with you. The critized that the material is not used in a transparent way and may be misleading. They guessed that the final scenes of people dancing in the streets may be showing the American reality (since you used American archives) but not the British/European one. Your use of archival footage is moving and aesthetic, but may not be truthful to the war. Could you clarify where the material was filmed?
@@stellae.1745 Fair point :)
In general, archive material is very expensive to licence so we were limited to what was accessible in the public domain, which is predominantly from American sources.
It's been a while since I've looked at the film but I'm pretty sure that the party scenes at the end were filmed in London, although the soldiers were likely American. I also think that particular end is told from the perspective of the British public - not army - and so the public in those archive clips would have been British.
The shot moving down the boulevard declaring peace is New York but it wasn't possible with our budget to source/license a Brit/Euro version of that moment.
Our overall attitude to archive material was to present a general truth to what war experiences were like, rather than to show literally what happened. If we could achieve an emotional truth then that was a good thing. With that in mind, I cut pieces of archive from multiple sources to create moments that conveyed a sense of what each moment might have felt like.
Did your class have any suggestions for how I might have been more transparent with the use of archive?
Hi Stella, ua-cam.com/video/3TP8ULHBBYc/v-deo.html here is a link to a video from another documentary film on www, would you mind showing it to your film class to get some feedback, id love to use it to help me make my own doc on a www bomb Aimee in the summer, thanks :)