Word: fictions
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...there are a couple of road pictures: Jed Weintrob describes his romp across America as a "fictionary" (combination of fiction and documentary with occasional snippets of Jerry Falwell and Barry Manilow); and Lindsay Herman (whose thesis is actually a video, not a film--the difference being a few hundred dollars more for every hour of film footage but lower picture quality) documents a more serious trek across Japan...
...concentrators have overextended the VES department budget, it is ironic that they have all chosen to pursue documentaries--which often end up being the most costly type of production for amateurs. Moss explains, "In documentaries, you have to keep re-shooting until you get what you need, whereas in fiction, and I'm assuming you're not paying the actors, you shoot only when you're ready and then stop, so you don't end up with a lot of unused footage...
Good biographies and histories should capture the life and times of their subjects with the compelling voice of fiction. Although details about the origins of Trott's Hessian family (Hermann von Trott "became steward to a Hessian prince in 1253") may add something to our understanding of Trott's view of himself as a German, MacDonogh has trouble relating them to Trott's place in history. And if they add no compelling understanding of Trott, why provide the reader with such details...
...Harvard goes, Ross does not see how Harvard has really helped him in his fiction writing. "I took English Car, which was quite a good class, [but] on the other hand I got away with doing very little." Before the class he approached writing in a "dillitantish" way, only dabbling with it in his spare time...
...such things were unthinkable. The lottery mattered, because we knew our numbers and we knew where we wanted to go. A good number made or broke your House experience. Although I preferred Adams, where the Conservative Club's president lived in delightful paradoxity, I settled for Dunster's Science Fiction Clubbiness...