Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’

FourDocs: the future, apologies and airport cocktails

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 posted by Rebecca Frankel

Hello – I’m just back from a holiday, that should have started with an Excel flight, except they went bust the day before I left. Cue 28 hours of delays and long airport bar bills, until a substitute flight actually took off. Most annoyingly they kept delaying the fight without revealing reasons – first 7 hours, then 5 more, then the next day etc. I understand it was a logistical nightmare on a grand scale, but it’s so much better when people are straight with you about the state of play, instead of fobbing you off.

So, I would like to personally say sorry sorry sorry for the fact that FourDocs has not been reviewing and posting your films for a quite a long while, and the fact that links from the old site are not working at the moment. (more…)

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How To Break Up – is this a documentary??

Monday, August 11th, 2008 posted by Rebecca Frankel

How To Break Up is a pretty hilarious 3 min cartoon I found on YouTube. It’s made by Lev Yilmaz, from San Francisco. Watch it now then read on.

At first glance it’s a generalisation of human behaviour that isn’t factual. It’s a particularly funny fictional account of mister average, so it strikes a cord at points in its circular story with most of us. However, you know where this stuff comes from – the painful personal experiences of the scribe. I’m going to suggest that How To Break Up therefore inverses a major rule of documentary – you know the one about how you’re meant to take the particular experience you’re filming and imply its universal ramifications. What do you think – could this lo-fi cartoon be considered a type of personal documentary, or possibly as lying within the fast sinking sand between fact and fiction?

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RSS feeds explained in Plain English

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 posted by Rebecca Frankel

One of the biggest changes to FourDocs is the way the blog now ties everything together, and is the homepage. This is where we’ll review and post FourDocs, point out links on the web and write about what is going on in the worlds of documentary film, distribution and technology. If you want to stay up-to-date and know when we post new content, the easiest way is to subscribe to our RSS feed by clicking on the link at the bottom of the right hand column. Some of you may already subscribe to loads of sites, but in case not I thought I’d post this short doc video: RSS in Plain English.

It’s made by Common Craft, an awesome company who explain technological terms clearly and completely, by making short factual films. So, it seems entirely fitting to show some of their work here. Who else do you think is making really great factual how to guides?

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