Take the last 15 minutes or so of class and start drafting your director’s statement for this final project. To do so, I’d like you to step back from the details of today’s editing work and remind us (and perhaps yourself) and clarify what your main purpose in making this film is. What do you hope to achieve by creating it in the way that you are? What effect(s) do you want it to have on your viewers? What would you say is the main argument or claim that you see yourself making?
Then, shift gears and start reflecting on the strategies and/or techniques that you’re using as both a rhetor and documentary film maker to develop and sustain your visual argument about your topic. What appeals are you making and how are you making them? How do you hope they will relate to your main purpose and support your claim? To what extent are these strategies similar to the ones you made as a writer? How are they different (either in terms of design or effect)?
