Documentary Unit

Introduction

The Documentary Unit encourages students to develop their digital skills through portraying an intriguing person, group, place, idea, or issue, gathering primary and secondary research sources to develop a distinct perspective about their subject’s significance in the community and/or world. This unit emphasizes narrative-style journalism.

I valued the research I had to do to expand my topic and make it interesting. I learned a lot on how to properly write a paper with interviews, how to interview, and how to research.

Documentary Project

My specific documentary project is based around video games– and the many misconceptions people have about them. My inspiration was quite simple really, I play video games and wanted to talk about the benefits they have that other people who don’t play video games might not know about.

Interviewees:

Miroslaw Majorek, 51

Miroslaw has always been interested in video games, and has a unique perspective on them due to his interest in them in the 1970’s and 1980’s.

Ethan Clark, 18

Ethan plays video games in his freetime, and as the target audience for most video games at the moment, can give insight to his generation’s point of view on video games.

Wyatt Clark, 5

Wyatt is a look at what the next generation will do with video games in the future. Wyatt plays games like sonic and spiro, and finds them very fun.

Documentary Paper

As a part of our Documentary project, we were tasked with writing a paper on the topic we chose. We had to cite interviews, secondary sources, and provide our own perspective to effectively convey our topic.