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Your upcoming documentary project is not an MMJ news story, neither is it a PSA, it is a story deeply rooted in a complex and important topic. Your job is to find a unique story to tell about the topic 'Poverty in America'.
Please answer the following blogspot questions:
- What does Ken Burns mean by 1 + 1 = 3?
- What is an emotional truth according to Burns?
- How does he make 'the dead' come to life in his work, specifically how does he do this with Photography and Audio?
- Where might you find a story about Poverty in America?
- How do you dig to find the Poverty in American story where 1 + 1 = 3?
- What kind of person would make an interesting character to build story around? (ie., what about poverty from a child's perspective, or the perspective of a parent, a sister, a social worker, policeman, clergy, non-profit agency worker, historical figure, city counsel member, non-profit foundation worker).
- What conflicts might you find, what inciting incidents? (ie., a child who goes to school but has just lost their home, a parent coping with bills that cannot be paid, a child is too hungry to do homework, a worker who has been laid off due to corporate downsizing)
- What are your initial thoughts about poverty in America? What message do you think you want to convey in the story you will tell through your documentary?
What Burns means by 1 + 1= 3 is that he's interested in things that are puzzling and interesting. An emotional truth is something that needed to be built up. Burns makes the dead come to life by using audio that fits the scene of the photo as well as camera techniques.
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1. Ken Burns means that stories are more than just simple math. One and one make more than just two because we're human, and we always walk away with something extra than just the given.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is something you have to build. And it comes from showing people in all their complexity
3. By panning through photographs, not just sitting one still shot over it
4. My mom
5. You find the cause and the result thoroughly and the moral and emotional aftereffects will follow
6. A child in a homeless shelter on Christmas
7. "Tell me about the trials of your life"
8. My mom is my inspiration for this. Invision soup kitchen is a building full of stories and I'm gonna go extract them.
1. There's more than just two. There's always more to the story.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth according to burns is something you have to build
3. He slowly moves from one side of the picture to another, not just letting it sit there.
4. You might be able to find it in SF.
5. How they became poor. What happened to them
6. Parent's eyes. Someone that had something and then lost it and how they're surviving in the world now.
7. Their company files for bankruptcy, and a parent not being able to pay off bills.
8. There's a ton of poverty in America, and maybe somehow we can help out.
1) He means that common stories put together make one big meaningful story.
ReplyDelete2) It's where real people tell real stories, with emotion and truth in it. He means that this is where good documentaries start.
3) Ken Burns pours his own tears and emotions into the stories. He is genuinely interested in the story.
4) On the streets of San Francisco.
5) Find a whole bunch of stories and turn it into one huge story that tells an overall story.
6) I think a person who has recently gotten out of poverty would be interesting to interview, as well as ex-homeless.
7) I think job loss, drug usage, alcoholism, over-dependence on welfare are some inciting incidents I will find.
8) I think that poverty is not only a chronic problem in America, but also in the world. Living in Silicon Valley, we are sheltered from the harsh realities of the world and of poverty. I think I want to show that poverty in the Silicon Valley is a real thing, and it is within a few miles of school.
1. He means he is interested in the hard to understand aspects of life like emotional things.
ReplyDelete2. An emotional truth is something you have to build. It is manipulating the feelings of the viewer.
3. He shows a picture of the dead and then tells their story.
I am doing the website so I have not thought much about the Poverty in America prompt, but you could find the story in a homeless war veteran or in an immigrant barely scraping by. You could find an incident like an immigrant arriving in America with no money and unable to get a job because they are not a citizen. I think poverty is terrible and if i were doing a documentary I would portray that.
1. burns is saying that the whole is greater than the individual parts
ReplyDelete2.that cinema is manipulation, something that you have to build
3.he reads the notes whilst playing either a video of who had written it or a photograph
4.san Francisco, oakland
5. how the poverty stricken people rely on each other for survival
6.someone who has gone through a difficult situation frequently having their innocence stripped away from them, a child
7.someone looking for work but with a serious drug dependency or mental
disorder.
8.poverty is normally caused by either bad luck or generations of lack of education or a drug dependence.
1. He means that 1+1=3 is the real story because its not simple.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is that people can change.
3. He makes the dead come back to life by bringing them back into his documentaries and talking about the impact they had on society.
4. You can find it in documentaries, and in modern times.
5. You try and focus on the big story, instead of just the small details of it.
6. A person who is a good guy, but has a dark side, and a unique back story.
7. Conflicts such as the simple things in life like what to eat, paying the bills, or getting arrested.
8. I think poverty in America is sad. I would want to show people in that kind of a documentary of the affect poverty has on other people, and that it can't be ignored.
1. Ken Burns means that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, as in the bigger picture of the situation or story.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is the storyteller's manipulation and the byproduct of the best of the stories, emotional truth is something you have to build.
3. By telling stories of "the dead", he makes the dead come to life with his work. By panning through photographs and including audio clips that match, it brings to life the past.
4. I can find a story about Poverty in America if I go to a poverty stricken area, such as Detroit, Michigan.
5. I can interview individuals that have lived through the experience in the area and can connect all their experiences into a single story about poverty in America.
6. A policeman in poverty stricken areas would be a very interesting character because he understands why people fall back to crime (in order to support their family), but at the same time, he must stop it.
7. A father who cannot support his family with just his job and welfare is a great conflict and inciting incident. This gives the man reason to be a criminal and why he does what he does.
8. I believe the gap between the rich and the poor in America is increasing greatly. I want to convey the message of how tough life is for the poor in America in order to show people in "rich bubbles" (Saratoga) what the real world looks like.
1. genuine stories (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts)
ReplyDelete2. something you have to build
3. moving the picture to build emotion
4.homeless shelters
5.compliation of different people
6. from the perspective of someone who wasn't always in poverty because they could tell of the transition and the struggle
7. the effect of an economic depression
8. convey that it is an ignored issue
1) He means that 1+1=3 is where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts (e.g. in a bible story the backround focus is always on God)
ReplyDelete2) An emotional truth is a story that sincerely moves people; All story is manipulation, however, an emotional truth is a story that sincerely moves people to feel something.
3) He uses moving audio and various photos of things to enhance the experience
4) In a homeless shelter
5) Ask children of poor families what their lives are like, ask social workers about some of their most moving experiences
6) From a teacher of a homeless child
7) A child who goes to school but lives in a homeless shelter
8) My initial thoughts are that poverty is a very big issue in America and it needs to be dealt with
Ken Burns means by 1+1=3 is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Ken Burns says that emotional truth is manipulation and is something that is built up. He makes the dead come to life by building up the emotional truth. You could find a story about poverty by looking for a place that is not known for poverty to open peoples eyes. You can make an interesting character by looking for someone who knows the truth but is not well known. the conflicts i would look at would be drugs, money, homelessness, and education. I believe that poverty in america is evident but is a small problem compared to other countries.
ReplyDelete1. I feel he means that we should try to get the biggest bang for our buck. We can do this by using parts to make an amazing whole.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is a bi-product of the best of our stories. It's something that needs to be built through a story.
3. He makes the dead come to life in his work through the art of story telling. He uses different audio clips and nostalgic video to bring back a sense of the ambiance that was set.
4. One can find a story about poverty in ghettos of New York, ghettos of Chicago, and parts of Detroit.
5. One needs to find the smaller things that make the whole of a city, the poverty in cities that make the city a whole with the poverty and the rich are what make 1+1=3.
6. Definitely a policeman's perspective in a poverty stricken area would be an incredible point of view as he faces dilemmas of stealing and what not of people who need it to survive and what not. It would be an extremely unique point of view to be from that of a police officer.
7. We could find a moral dilemma of a sensitive police officer seeing a child he has known begin stealing for his family for there is nothing else he can do to survive
8. I think about poverty the way Ghandi thinks about poverty - that it is one of the worst and most degrading things that could happen to a human. I think the story could convey a sense of sympathy.
1. The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
ReplyDelete2. It's something you build up.
3. He builds up their emotional truth and is genuinely interested in the story.
4. In less fortunate neighborhoods.
5. Using the stories of people of the area to create the main story.
6. A person who came out of poverty to become something better.
7. Divorce, job-loss, drugs, gambling.
8. Poverty is a problem all over the world, not only in the United States, and showing that there is poverty around us will show that poverty is a real global epidemic.
1) The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
ReplyDelete2) An emotional truth is something you have to build
3) He built up their emotional truths
4) Detroit or Oakland, maybe some homeless shelters
5) You take individuals and try and find a common ground among them and use that to be the basis of your documentary.
6) Michael Oher
7) Losing family members, depression, loss of house, gambling, death, drugs, addiction
8) It's rampant throughout the country. It needs to be fixed in order to get our nation out of this economic downswing we are going through. I want to convey the depressing lives poor people have to live through.
1. He means that simple stories put together can make something extraordinary.
ReplyDelete2. Its something he does to manipulate his audience and move them emotionally.
3. He puts sad music and slows down the picture to bring them to life.
4. San Francisco?
5. Their stories put together.
6. A parent watching their child die slowly and painfully.
7. A man who has a family that cant support or get Christmas presents for them.
8. Making small changes for good, giving food to s homeless man or helping an old lady cross the street can make a change.
1. he means an interesting story in regular life 1+1=2 but in his stories he looks for interesting things that equal 3
ReplyDelete2. story is used to embelish ourselves, change is necessary for people to stay the same.
3. using pictures that move not only in or out but using different camera angles
4. An innVision
5. find a story about a impoverished person that is different than how others view poverty
6. someone who has a drive that is good and is trying to do right
but has problems.
7. a homeless person doesnt have enough for themselves but still takes time to help others whenever they can.
1. Ken Burns means that stories are more than just simple math. One and one make more than just two because we're human, and we always walk away with something extra than just what is given to us.
ReplyDelete2. The truth is hard to swallow and it can be very hard to face what has happened
3. By panning through photographs, not just sitting one still shot over it
4. My dad
5. You find the cause and the result thoroughly and the moral and emotional aftereffects will follow
6. A child in a homeless shelter on Christmas
7. "Tell me about the trials of your life"
8. My mom is my inspiration for this. Invision soup kitchen is a building full of stories and I'm gonna go extract them.
1. The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
ReplyDelete2. It's something you build up and its used to change is necessary.
3. He builds up their emotional truth and uses pictures that move ourself and is genuinely interested in the story.
4. In less fortunate neighborhoods; an innVision.
5. Using the stories of people of the area to create the main story.
6. A person who came out of poverty to become something better; they have a problem and are trying to do good
7. a father that doesnt have money to get any presents or anything extra for his family
8. Poverty is a problem all over the world, and showing that there is poverty around us will show that poverty is a real global epidemic.
1. He means that simple math is like a simple interesting story put together can lead to something great.
ReplyDelete2. It is something he does to build the strength of the story
3. Builds up the emotion in the story
4. In Oakland or somewhere less fortunate.
5. Using people in one area to create a whole story
6. A person who came from a poor family who then become something better.
7. Depression, loss of house or family member, gambling addiction, drugs
8. Poverty is a problem not only in the United states but unfortunately all over the world. Having more people now how much poverty there is around the world will help me gain more awareness.
1. He means that the whole addition is a bigger and more interesting than the sum of the individual parts
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is the manipulation of emotions, something you have to build.
3. Ken Burns uses touching music and slowly pans across his photos.
4. Poverty in America is found in soup kitchens.
5. To make 1+1=3, find many stories about poor people and weave them together.
6. The perspective of a child would be very interesting because children are very innocent, and it is emotional to see them with hardships.
7. Alcoholism is a big conflict, along with poor education and famine.
8. I think that poverty is the worst thing that can happen especially in this despicable time of the winter, when I sleep with two blankets and a heater, not thinking about the homeless people.
1.) The things that matter most to us (love/religion/reason) are the 3. 1+1=2 is the normal way.
ReplyDelete2.) An emotional truth is something that you have to build.
3.) He builds up their emotional truths and is genuinely interested in the story.
4.) You could find them in urban big cities where there are many homeless.
5.) You could find relations between different sufferers of poverty and base the documentary on how their similarities affect their lives.
6.) An interesting story would be a police officer's perspective in a poverty-stricken area. It would be interesting to learn how he deals with the problem and how he feels about it.
7.) An inciting incident might be the police officer coming across an orphan out in the snow with little clothing on when it is a blizzard.
8.) I think poverty in America is often overlooked since America is portrayed as such a successful and perfect country. In my documentary, I want to exhibit that poverty is ever present in America; we just don't come across it often due to our location.
1. There is more to a story than just its parts, the whole is bigger.
ReplyDelete2. EMotional Truth comes from all the angles shown by a person
3. Uses fitting soundtrack and visual photographs which he moves.
4. You could probably find a story anywhere
5. Put the parts together to make a whole
6. Someone with a story of interest, someone who lives an extraordinary life
7. conflicts could be school, eating, finding a job
8. AN emotional appeal needs to be made to people around by showing the poorest of all
1. He means that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is when the movie moves the audience through emotional manipulation.
3. He makes the dead come to life because he puts something that was once written down and puts it into a realistic moving picture.
4. I might find a movie about it in his movies.
1. When 2 simple things are put together they can create something more extraordinary than expected.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is something you have to build up
3. He moves around an image for a little bit instead of having the entire picture sit there.
4. San Francisco
5. Find the causes of poverty and see where it leads you
6. Someone who has made it through poverty, probably a child that grew up in it and eventually escaped from it.
1. He ment that, sually there is more to the story than just 1+1=2. There is more to the story that always is 1+1=3, something more than is expossed for entertainment.
ReplyDelete2. For him, emotional truth is something you have to build up in order to really establish it.
3.He brings movement to the piture, that always makes it look better and more alive.
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5.Maybe something more about the story, not making the people of poverty look inncoent, show thei bad qualities too
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1. he is looking for something more interested
ReplyDelete2. something that you have to build
3. using music, panning pictures
4. homeless people
5. find many stories about poor people that is different view than others
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1)1+1=2 is anormal story, 1+1=3 is an abnormal story because it doesn't add up.
ReplyDelete2) Emotional truth is a story that you have to build and manipulate to make it good.
3) He makes the "dead" or the normal people wae up by changing their wievs.
4) you can find it in the big cities like san francisco.
5) you have to go to the place where no one would think to go and look.
6) Poverty from a child's perspective would be good because they don't have the insoght like adults do.
7) like why they became poor and homeless
8) homeless people can still help others, their usually more thoughtful
1. That manipulation can make a human story, extremely fascinating.
ReplyDelete2. manipulating information in an interesting fashion.
3. He makes them feel up close
4. DETROIT
5 deserted houses and crazy crime
1. Theres more to the story than just whats on the surface.
ReplyDelete2. Something that must be built through your own emotion.
3. He uses interesting, irregular shots on photographs.
4. Milpitas.
5. Find the emotional pain and points of view of the poor people.
6. The struggle between a policeman and a parent who must resort to crime.
7. Parents that must turn to crime to be able to feed their children.
8.I think it is a problem that must be solved both politically and socially.
1. He means that sometimes the truth is not obvious. 1+1=2 is an obvious truth, but 1+1=3 and how it becomes three is not obvious. There are factors hidden and avoided from 2 to three that must be discussed by a story.
ReplyDelete2. The emotional truth is that people must always bring themselves to change.
3. The music and images he uses is nostalgic in the sense that re-evokes feeling of the past through historical context.
4. Poverty and American can be discovered by studying interviewing people on the streets, reading news articles, think tanks, and journals; however, these preliminary research techniques will only give you the surface of the issue.
5. Actual interviews with people may be one of the best options. Also, following the story of a poverty stricken individual may provide insight that makes the whole of poverty bigger than its parts.
6. A person who's escaped from poverty or had at least has tried to. A great example of a real life story (but not a documentary) is the Pursuit of Happiness.
7. A person finds himself living off food stamps because he can't find a job or possibly unhealthy neighborhoods and areas where a person can't pull themselves out of poverty because they can't get the best education or resources(a compare and contrast between communities).
8. America provides more social mobility than other countries. With tax provided education, health insurance, and social security, the United States is designed to give everybody equal opportunity.
Poverty usually strikes in America for the following reasons:
Certain people are not willing to push themselves to get out of poverty.
Access to this quality global entitlements such as education are not readily available to due negative influences such as race division in communities, tradition, or outside influence(such as parental for a child trying to go to school).
1. Ken Burns means that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. He ultimately means the bigger picture is more key than just the little bits of details.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is the storyteller's manipulation and throughout the project one needs to gradually implement that emotional truth in there. It's an important necessity that needs to be included.
3.By telling the stories of the dead, he basically brings us to a time that we are not familiar with, as if we were actually there. Ultimately, he brought them to life in our eyes.
4. I would be able to go to a poverty stricken place such as the third world countries or even nearby in the bay area, Oakland.
5. I would be able to interview those who were unfortunate in poverty stricken areas. It would provide a lot of insight with what's actually the bigger picture.
6. A good story would be one who endures the poverty they lived in and somehow end up being successful in their careers.
7. It would be a child who has a natural gifted mind and has the potential to do great things but due to their neighborhood or to low income, they can't get anywhere in life.
8. The gap between rich and the poor has never been greater. I initially had some idea but Mr. Davey provided the statistics and that's when truly believed it. I want to convey that although we live in a great city like Saratoga, not everywhere is like this. We might think being poor is living in apartments but people don't even have a place to sleep or even food on their plates. It's terrible.
1. Ken Burns means by this is that things are complicating and interesting.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is the storytellers manipulation through complex feelings.
3. Ken Burns uses old pictures and voices that seem to know what they are talking about. It is bringing a new story to life.
4. I may find a story about poverty in the Philippines or Africa. There may even be one in SF!
5. I would find a complex story and make it seem as in depth and real as possible.
6. A good story would make a strong character where he starts somewhere and gets somewhere further.
7. A good story might be a lonely war veteran who has no help now that he has gotten home and served for his country.
8. I think I am way to spoiled and I feel just lucky that I can live in Saratoga. I want to look more in depth into the poverty I know so little about.
1. What Burns means by 1+1=3 is that the entire project together is greater than the individual parts.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is how the storyteller explains the "situation" to the audience, how to manipulate the audience in the way he wants to.
3. Ken Burns adds pictures of the dead and integrated quotes to make the audience either feel bad or hate the dead man. The primary sources are also invaluable.
4. Im guessing that you could find a story about poverty is in the US archives during the great depression.
5. I would make a good project about poverty by getting information from the National archives, but the main info would be interviews from poor people.
6. I think an interesting story would revolve around the life of a poor teenager maybe around 13-15 because the audience realizes that this kid really has no choice, that he was born into poverty and the audience would be able to connect better.
7. The conflicts that I would expect would probably along the lines of: if the kid going through poverty has enough food to eat, or how school is going with him, how are his parents acting around him and if they support him.
8. I believe that poverty in the US is increasing because the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the middle class in dying, and the worst case scenario is the united states being turned into what it was during the great depression, where there is only the rich, and only the poor. In the documentary i want to relate US poverty now vs US poverty during the depression.
1. There is more than just 2 parts of the story to make a simple equation like 1+1=2, there are other factors that contribute to making the big picture larger than just the sum of little details.
ReplyDelete2. Emotional truth is something you need to build that is the storyteller's manipulation.
3. He creates a total experience by playing audio that relates to the person or a reading of their quote, etc while displaying pictures or video that display the person or event.
4. To find a story about poverty in America, I would travel to a less affluent place like the bad areas of SF, Oakland, or LA. Also, you could go to a place where a natural disaster has hit, such as a tornado or hurricane.
5. To dig deeper into the emotional aspect of poverty and tell to people about how they ended up where they were and further learn their stories.
6. I think it would be very interesting to learn about poverty from a child's perspective because they dont get to choose the lifestyle they are born into and it is more emotionally effecting.
7. Parents trying desperately to feed their families, getting two jobs, no help from friends and family, etc. because as hard as they work it isnt enough and is very sad
1. That manipulation can make a human story, extremely fascinating.
ReplyDelete2. manipulating information in an interesting fashion.
3. He makes them feel up close
4. DETROIT
5 Show Detroit in its prime and then show what it has become.
6. I think having two main characters, one being a resident and the other being a government official who is attempting to piece the city back together.
7. I think the pension cuts to retired families and the deaths to gang violence would be pretty heart wrenching.
8. I think that there are people who have allowed their own personal greed to overtake them, which in turn endangers the livelihoods of others. I want people to be aware of what is going on in a city that used to be a bastion of hope in the United States of America. I want them to remember. I also want them to help.
When Ken Burns says 1+1=3, he is talking about a documentary that is out of the ordinary, unlike the regular linear documentary where 1+1=2
ReplyDeleteAccording to Burns, there are many kinds of truths but an emotional truth is something that you have to build
For historical documentaries, Burns tries to make things that are dead, like Abraham Lincoln, Jackie Robinson, or Louis Armstrong to seem like they are not dead and that they are very alive using photography panning.
Some sources of information would be interviewed, reading articles, and journals
Interviewing people good way to get information.
A type of person that would create an interesting story would be someone that used to be in poverty and went through pain in the past but has changed
An example of a conflict could be losing friends of family members due to poverty, because this is very emotionally strong
I did not know poverty in America was this high. I think there are others like me who also did not know this, so creating a documentary showing how much of America is in poverty would be interesting
1. I think that Ken Burns is talking about an eccentric documentary because it does not have the regular linear documentary where 1 + 1 = 2.
ReplyDelete2. Ken Burns does this to add an emotional aspect and shows the story tellers manipulation.
3. In historical documents, Burns makes them feel very up close and makes things appear in a lively manner.
4. I would travel to the bad parts of L.A. because it displays not only crime but just a harder life in general.
5. I would compare and contrast very good parts of L.A. like Beverly Hills, with much more rough parts like Compton.
6. I think that learning about poverty in a child's perspective is a great way to learn because they are born into whatever situation they are in and they have absolutely no control over it.
7. A conflict would be getting bullied at school, parents can't provide for the family and the child has no one really to support him mentally or physically.
8. I think that the poverty situation in America is very complex. The top 20% consume 86% percent of our resources and I think that is ridiculous. More donations should be given and it should be more fair for everyone in the country.