I found, yesterday, this wiki web page particularly helpful for beginning a Cuttyhunk documentary film (and which I've added to the WUaS film schools / subjects below):
How to Create a Good Documentary Film. 2014. [http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Good-Documentary-Film How to Create a Good Documentary Film]. wikihow.com/Create-a-Good-Documentary-Film .
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And today I found online the following interviews with Ken Burns:
Burns, Ken. 2007. [http://emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/ken-burns Ken Burns]. (video). emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/ken-burns .
Burns, Ken, interviewed by Austin Allen. 2009. [http://bigthink.com/users/kenburns KEN BURNS: Documentary Filmmaker]. (Video with transcript). bigthink.com/users/kenburns .
Burns, Ken, interviewed by Austin Allen. 2009. [http://bigthink.com/videos/history-as-good-storytelling KEN BURNS: History as Good Storytelling]. bigthink.com/videos/history-as-good-storytelling .
Cieplax-Mayr von Baldeggmay, Kasia. 2012. [http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2012/05/ken-burns-on-why-his-formula-for-a-great-story-is-1-1-3/257165/ Ken Burns on Why His Formula for a Great Story Is 1+1=3]. (with transcript). theatlantic.com/video/archive/2012/05/ken-burns-on-why-his-formula-for-a-great-story-is-1-1-3/257165/ .
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So, drawing on this - http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Good-Documentary-Film - I'd like to write and script a documentary with a beginning working title of something like, as a beginning -
"Cuttyhunk Kids, Learning to Sail, Talent Shows: Summers of Love in the 1970s"
but also broadly "Documentary of Cuttyhunk in the 1970s"
(and then perhaps expand these titles)
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So the film is about
(per http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Good-Documentary-Film)
and about love per Ken Burns
(http://bigthink.com/videos/history-as-good-storytelling)
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Topic -
qualities of love, {vis-a-vis 1960's influenced envisioning about an exploration on} Cuttyhunk as kind of loving community (from kinds of progressive liberalism and change perspectives even)
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Audience -
In terms of audience, Cuttyhunkers will resonate with love theme, especially vis-a-vis kids on Cuttyhunk and interviews, but how to make this historical documentary appeal to a wider audience of boat people coming to the CHS (and for selling it).
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Purpose -
Cuttyhunk as a unique model for making the world a better place (Ken Burns' change)
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Research -
interviews, CHS resources,
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Outline -
Writing script
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Boatbuilding on Cuttyhunk class emerging out of yacht club (1979)... lead to eventually someone else building a little wooden dinghy that was used by yacht club students for decades (Watermelon)
And the yacht club needed a row boat ... so it was an innovation to have a class on building one ...
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Qualities of relating and connecting between people ... on Cuttyhunk, due to community and people's friendliness ... so multi-perspectival and multi-people-interconnected and intergenerationally and trusting and caring... so Cuttyhunk's culture in those decades from the perspective of 1960-s and '70s-informed teenagers growing up there in the summer (some 40 years later) ...
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For me as a teen in the 1970s on Cuttyhunk, doing summer jobs here, I saw the possibilities of change for the better in the world. And Cuttyhunk was a real-world, yet remote from the modern world (where vis-a-vis the '60s, the world was falling apart with crazy wars going in many places, and injustices that could be changed), and Cuttyhunk was a place to realize alternative visions of community. And living in the basement of 1960's influenced intellectuals and radicals Bet and Mar's house a few summers, and working with kids too, it was possible to conceive in language and ideas in an ongoing way the possibilities of a new and better world and explore it as reality on Cuttyhunk in a variety of ways, and with great happiness and among friends of all ages.
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In terms of specific outline for editing:
http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/Documentary-Film-Outline
Three scenes:
Historical society (and possibly where I was living on Cuttyhunk at the time)
Yacht club
Town Hall
Interviews of people in their homes
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Interview transcripts -
http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/Documentary-Film-Interview
Describe what you enjoyed about the late 1970s ...
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Documentary introduction -
http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/Documentary-Introduction
Bring in elements from this Cuttyhunk blog label ...
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Sound and music?
folk music played by musicians on Cuttyhunk (vis-a-vis Ken Burns) or ...?
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All of the above resources have been added to this WUaS film "schools" ... plus
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film_-_Documentaries
and the "Film Making" wiki subject page, or school, at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film_Making
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