"Super size me"

1. Jump cuts, a voice in the backround of the image giving statistics about Mc Donnalds and obesity. This give the impression that is more real, also when people speak they don´t see the camera is more real, they don´t care if someone is filming them, is the same for the people that is being interviewed.

2. Sometimes yes because we have to know about what their are speaking about and centralize in the theme but other time we know about what they are speaking about.

3. The camera is used a lot of times, middle shots, most time of the interviews and they change sometimes to demonstrate other things medium close up. This allow the space for objects.

4. The camera most of the times is still, in the middle of the interview can change and show other things, like compare something.

5. All the interviews show us the backround of the people that is interviewing, show us were the people work or take an idea of the people that is interview.

6. They only give to us the relevant information, is a short time of the interview and to us important information.

7. Spurlock tell us through the movie that he chose Mc Donnalds to do the documentary because Mc Donnalds don´t give the information of the calories that a hamburguer of Mc Donnalds have.

Production Journals. Monday 29th August.

Monday, a monday of hard work that we have to do, in Tuesday 23rd we get out to the streets to film our documentary movie. We have some problems here, because some people dont want to be film by us, or they want to be film but not the face, so we have to film some images of the place without the person that is being interviewed, also we use a sound-recorder to have a best record of what people said, so the sound, we can hear it. Also, we cant film a bus driver that was our idea, but was really difficult to do this. Finally another problem that we may have to affront was the sound, we have to carry a voice recorder to have a better sound and then introduce it after with the images of the camera, the battery of the camera dont was a problem because we carry two or more cameras.

Production Journals Thursday, August 18.

18 August, we work in the documentary planning. Our documentary ovbiously is made up with a lot of interviews. The interviews have to be seem profesional. To help us with the interviews we see interviews of the documental "Super Size me". We saw the techniques of the camera, to introduce the audience to the interview subjects, we analyze if the question is really needed to show for the audience, the research that Spurlock have to do to create the documental and finally the movement of the camera. Taking all this, Tuesday 23rd we can go out to the streets and film the main part of our documental!

Production Journals. Thursday, 11 August

Today, we, Toto Productions have to hand in the location list, we have it nearly finished to hand it in. In our group we complete all B-roll footage, and include a shot list to do a complete work. We have to solve some problems in the location list to define places, but we can solve it and is all right. The deadlines we can submit all in time.

Production Journals. Thursday August 4.

Today in Toto Productions, we have to search the locations of where we were going to shoot our video. We need this information:

-Deciding where you plan to shoot video
-Visiting sites ahead of time to get a sense of the space
-Planning the order in which you will shoot in different
-Locations
-Identify what the best shots are in each location

With this information we do a document filling this information in and give this in before a deadline that we have. The document show to us where we are shooting in, the order we will shoot in them (including dates you will film/have filmed), and still shots with the name of location.

Quentin Tarantino

1)      Name two distinctive features of Tarantino’s films.

2)      How was Tarantino’s education in film different to the normal method of film-school?

3)      Despite the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino’s first film in 1992, it was criticized by many. Why?

4)      What genre do Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction belong to?

5)      Identify three recurring CAMERA ANGLES/SHOTS used by Tarantino. Include a screen shot example of each, with a brief caption about the possible effects created by each (eg. to give a sense of power to audience/character, to disorient the viewer, etc)

6)      Explain USING YOUR OWN WORDS what Tarantino’s Mirror shot is, and possible effects of using it. Include a screen shot.

7)      A recurring trope in Tarantino’s films is the Mexican standoff.

a) Briefly explain what it is.

b) Explain where the term comes from.

c) Examples of two non-Tarantino films that use it (with screen shots of possible).

d) Provide screen shots from two Tarantino films that use it.

8)      A “MacGuffin” is used in Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction.

a)      What is a MacGuffin? Explain in fifty words.

b)     What is the MacGuffin in Pulp Fiction?

c)      Provide examples fo MacGuffins from two non-Tarantino films, with screen shots if possible.

1. The films of Tarantinos where thrillers that were different because of their clever, twisting dialogue, and also because of their extreme violence.

2. Quentin Tarantiro really was a clerk moviemaker, he dont acquired his knowledge by a conventional high school method.

3. Tarantino was critized because of the level of unnecesary violence in their movies.

4. Drama, mystery, crime interviews, he mix humor and ultra-violence in the popular, critically-acclaimed film.


5.                      CSI: Doctors:

POV low angle shot (extreme) , give the sense to the audience, showing how a person is examinated.

In Four Rooms : Chester listens to Ted's monologue.

Medium face-shot.



In Reservoir Dogs : Mr Brown, Mr Pink and Mr White looking at Marvin Nash.

Low angle shot.



6.

 

Mirror shot. (Kill Bill 1) looking herself.

A mirror shot is when a shot of a character is showed when it is seeing himself or herself in a mirror.




7. A) Its refer to a particular type of stand off, maybe the aparition of an incident, a subset of a general standoff. A situation that dont have a original winner.

B) The origin is not really well known but the term comes from Sergio Leone's movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," a classic from 1966.

C) D)

The good, the bad and the ugly.

Reservoir Dogs:  

8.

A) The Mac Guffin element drives the movie´s plot forward without having a specific relevance on its own.

B)  In Pulp Fiction, activates the action but don´t have any further purpose.

C) Eleven: All the movie is based in stole a bank, and they do a plan to have the gold egg.