Archive - May 15, 2007
Michael Priestley
MP: STC 2007 Day 2
Blog entry: Submitted by Michael Priestley on Tue, 2007-05-15 03:36. Last updated on Tue, 2007-05-15 04:06.
A great opening keynote from honorary fellow Simon Singh, for his work on documentaries and books such as Fermat's Last Theorem. Some of the elements that stuck: the importance of storytelling, the importance of trust between the filmmaker and the subject, and the line between simplifying materials for general consumption versus distorting footage to misrepresent opinions.