50 Documentaries of the Decade

Last week Paste declared their 25 Documentaries of the Decade. To be honest it was a bit of a disappointingly obvious list, in terms of safely including most of the biggest docs of the decade. Every film on their list is a great documentary but there were also a great amount of other films that possibly should have seen a mention. I tried to limit to 25 but it's just impossible. This isn't necessarily in any order, I hate the idea of saying one is better than the other, especially when you're talking 10 years of filmmaking and also the sheer ...

Research Process: Clip – Encounters at the End of the World

My friend, and filmmaking partner, Jemma has set me the task of showing her documentaries she hasn't seen so that we can look at visuals and filming techniques for a documentary we are currently in the research stage for. Jemma has largely always focused on current affairs TV docs, as that is her main area of interest, and has little knowledge when it comes to feature documentaries. I don't see this as a bad thing and it means I get a chance to re-watch a lot of films I love, so I've begun trying to think of particular films or ...

Remembering Dennis Stock

Magnum Photographer Dennis Stock sadly died today. Stock started his career as an apprentice to Life magazine photographer Gjon Mili and joined Magnum in 1951. Although best known for his intimate portraits of James Dean he was also a prolific Jazz photographer taking some of the most iconic Jazz portraits in history for his book Jazz Street. in 1968 he founded the production company Visual Objectives and shot several documentaries but returned to Magnum to serve as president of Magnum's film and new media division in 1969 and 1970. Stock generated a book or an exhibition almost every year since the ...

Filmmaking, My Filmmaking, Production Diary

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”

Posted by Charlotte on May 9, 2007 at 12:39 am.

I have so much work to do to make my final film work and it could all fail sooner than I realise. I am excited but terrified at the same time. I need to go to bed if I’m going to be up in time to do as much work on my ideas as possible so this is it for today.

Please please let me pull this off. I dont want to end up working for random tv companies for the next ten years. The next few months are make or break time…. eek

Also…. this film has blown my mind. Dark Days is the film I dreamt of making. It’s potentially the best documentary I have ever seen.

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About Me

Welcome to In One Eye, Out the Other! My name is Charlotte and this is my blog for anything and everything that I love/like and an ongoing portfolio of my work.

I'm 26 and have spent 20 of those years in education, studying a large range of things from Media Technology to Graphic Design, Photography, Motion Graphics, Web Design, New Media and most recently an MA in Documentary.

I'm a filmmaker and photographer and I watch, write about and programme documentaries.

I live in London with a very large old cat, Henry, who is quite partial to ham sandwiches.

Henry

My First Film

I've finally had the time to start re-editing the film so a new version will be up again soon. The film is a portrait of Hunstville, Texas which is home to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the state execution chamber. It looks at the love/hate relationship the residents have with their greatest employer and the stigma of the executions.

The production diary here
and stills from the shoot are here

In One Eye, Out The Other

50 Documentaries of the Decade

Top 15 Documentaries of 2009

Research Process: Clip – Encounters at the End of the World

Remembering Dennis Stock

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”