Capturing the Friedmans

Questions:

1. If you were making this film, what pre-production activities (ie. before filming) would you need to complete to make this documentary. Make a list.

- Speak with lawyers/introduce in the case
- Permission of the police/victims
- Interviewing police.
- Interviewing victims.
- How the family was.
- How to film them.
- Where they film them.
- When they film them.

2. How was the film footage (the raw, unedited material as it had been originally filmed) for this documentary produced? A) Who was filmed? Where were they filmed? B) What different types of footage were used? Be specific. (Was it all filmed live by the documentary-makers? Or did they use footage from elsewhere?)

The film footage show us the home life of them or for example the court room where they have to declare.

A. In this documentary film; was filmed the family (Friedmans) in their personal life and through out the case. They were filmed at home, in their own life.

B. A part of this documentary film was made by the documentary-makers but another part that is made by the Friedmans film of them.

3. What post-production activities have been used in this documentary? And how? A) The editing - sequence of shots, transition between shots. B) What music or sounds have been added (non-diagetic sound)? What effects have been created by this? C) Why do you think the film-makers have decided NOT to use a narrator/talent or voice-over? What effects are created by not adding this?

A) How the shot pass through others, where is the people when they are filming. Where are the interviews. Close up of a door in a court room, so we can see what they speak about filming. Jump-cuts. Film night by the car moving.

B) The screamings, that creates like tension through this.