For this assignment, your goal is to produce a compelling sequence.

A sequence? You can think of it as a scene. A sequence is the building block of a film – a unified set of shots and audio that present an action or an idea or an event or a moment. It might be as short as 20 seconds – or as long as five minutes. More important than length is unity. A sequence is unified, with structure and rhythm, a beginning, middle, and end. The possibilities are endless. A sequence might be: two men talking while fishing, a view of an empty room before a performance, a woman walking on a road, a basketball game, a bus ride, a doctor visit, a narrated story…

Your assignment: produce a sequence of at least 30 seconds and no longer than 90 seconds.

Ideally, the sequence you create for this assignment will be part of your mini-documentary, perhaps the opening or the close, or a chapter of the story. But if you don’t have the necessary material for your mini-doc, you can create a sequence on any subject.

I’ll let you be as creative as you want. We’ve seen that documentary filmmakers do a lot of different things: present still images in cool ways (Ken Burns, Civil War), present beautiful live action juxtaposed with poetic narration (Alain Resnais, Night and Fog), present straight interviews with experts and participants, reenact true (or imagined) events, etc.

My suggestion: use a set of bites from one of your interviews with b-roll to convey an action, idea, event, or moment…

When you are done, export as mp4, save to OneDrive, share with me, and share the link on Moodle. Good luck!