COMM 411 George Washington University History of Documentary Summary Paper

writing project

Complete a summary paper.

The content of the article requires you to sort out what you think is important and understand these goals:

Understand ethical challenges of documentary filmmaking

Understand how current market conditions create new pressures on ethical behavior

Understand the relationship between ethics controversies and movements for social justice

You can only use the following resources:

“The State of Journalism on the Documentary Filmmaking Scene,” cmsimpact.org/docjournalism

Sonya Childress, “The documentary future: A call for accountability,” https://medium.com/@sonya.childress/the-documentary-future-a-call-for-accountability-79e7c1315912

Look at the values statements at https://www.docaccountability.org/

AJ Schnack, “It Came from Inside the House,” Filmmaker magazine, Mar 10, 2014, http://filmmakermagazine.com/84922-it-came-from-inside-the-house-community-criticism-and-the-act-of-killing/

Always in Season, PBSTrailer for The Act of Killing,

***Sort and summarize the keywords or knowledge points you think are important and explain them and then use the numbers to rank them. Each requirement needs to be summarized separately.