Documentary Category
Individual & Group (2-5 Students)
A documentary should reflect your ability to use audiovisual equipment
to communicate your topic's significance, much as professional documentaries
do. The documentary category will help you develop skills in using photographs,
film, video, audio tapes, and graphic presentations. Your presentation should
include primary materials but must also be an original production. To produce
a documentary you must have access to equipment and be able to operate it.
Checklist
- Registration Fee ($10.00) and papers mailed by deadline, January 15, 2001.
- Ten minute maximum for performance.
- Maximum 5 minutes to set up and 5 minutes to take down.
- Three copies (plus one for you) of written materials.
- Title page includes your title, your name, your division (Junior/Senior),
and category (Documentary).
- Five hundred word description of the research methods used.
- Annotated bibliography, separated into primary and secondary sources.
- Presentation must address the theme.
- Live student involvement limited to giving name and title before using
equipment.
- Be prepared to answer judges questions at the contest. (Remember that
formal narratives are not appropriate response to questions.)
Papers | Exhibits | Performances
| Documentaries | California Only
