Documentary: Group

Today we start planning our documentary, our group is going to be composed by Ramiro and me. Today, monday we discuss about the problematic that we are going to choose, we think that a good idea can be the different problems or activities that you can have in a private neighborhood. We choose two different private neighborhoods, one in the North of Buenos Aires called Martindale, and the other particularly in the South of Buenos Aires is called "Abril".

Writing a film noir scene

spective to his back, showing her face. She remains in silence for some cold seconds.

WOMAN

I’m sure you’ve heard about… about this… person wondering around, right?

Camera fixed on her face, she looking down in what seems anguish.

10. Two shot from her back, showing detective’s expression, which is nearly of a laugh

DETECTIVE

What do you think we dedicate to at here darling?

The camera fixed on him. He starts a mid laugh and takes a sip of drink.

11.Close-up of her face. Slightly Dutch angled in horizontal level with her tilted face. She sounds stressed.

WOMAN

I know it seems absurd detective, but I am fearful about the situation…

12. Close-up of a man  surrounded by shadows, standing near a door.

DETECTIVE (Voice-Over)

Excuse me lady, you know I have not got the time for this nonsense of the woman in despair and the gentleman who offers to help.

13. Close-up of her face. Slightly Dutch angled in horizontal level with her tilted face. In an icy voice.

WOMAN

It’s… He’s my husband…

DETECTIVE

What about him?

WOMAN

He’s the one in charge of the murders around here, I’m afraid I’ll be the next, or… who knows…

14. Close-up of detective’s stone face, serious mood.

DETECTIVE

That’s… another story, tell me about him, where is he?!?!

15. Close-up of her face. Slightly Dutch angled in horizontal level with her tilted face. She is about to break in a cry, her voice fractures.

WOMAN

I’m afraid he… he is the one who brought me here. He’s outside, at the car… Help me! (whispers)

Representation of characters - Mills/Pitt

Brad Pitt shows us that he can be a type of new masculinity. The comercial that Pitt do of Levi's is a type of rebelation, a younger man that dont respect a type of "army", we can see this when he throw the camera to the military people. Also when he take photos to the girl that is dancing with him, showing fashion, and also we can see a new type of man, a metrosexual man, it can be called like this, is the new type and the Levi's comecial show this to the audience. The man that was thinking and searching good clothes and also preocupate by himself.

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/03/03/top_10_metrosexual_celebs

Here in the 6th place, Brad Pitt is in the ranking of the 10 metrosexual celebs.

The Marlboro man, show to the audience that he was the classic type of male, with a jean coat, like using his strenght, this usual image show and do propaganda of Marlboro:

http://files.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_773/7730655/file/marlboro-cigarettes-marlboro-man-small-43375.jpg


He show that is powerfull and do a work that is based on strenght and showing a lot of enthusiasm by doing it.

Se7en - Genre

Definition of "genre" and "Fin de Siecle" by the dictionary:

Definition of GENRE

Genre: "A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content"

 

Se7en contains horror and neo-noir things. The type of genre can be a horror, suspense, detective-police film, a lot of murders and a lot of evidence to prove this. Is a detective thriller, is very complete, and give different senses when we analyze the movie by characters, settings, sound, etc. Types of film-noir exist here. The movie moves along the seven deadly sins, gluttony, envy, lust, pride, sloth, greed and wrath. The horror and the suspense exist here in a great number of sadistic murders, investigate by two police detectives, one called  David Mills (Pitt) and the other William Somerset (Freeman), the noir elements we can see it along the movie, the lighting, setting that the movie use.

 

Definition of FIN DE SIÈCLE

Fin de Siecle: "Of, relating to, or characteristic of the close of the 19th century and especially its literary and artistic climate of sophistication, world-weariness, and fashionable despair"

 

 

The movie it takes part along an unidentified city, a lot of raining and urban decay. The different type of characters analyzing them, how different they are.

 

 

Bibliography: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fin+de+siecle?show=0&t=1318855391

 

 

 

Se7en

Noir elements of opening:

Setting:

• Always dark, cold, made through dark lighting and rain, always grey.
• Constant raining
• Cold day
• Grey and dark mood
• The buildings abandoned, the detective through the rain, probably cold with two coffies on his hand.
• Involving homicides.
• City police building, looks like a prison, type of lines like a laberint.
• Showing what day is in big.
• Showing a second murdered by a newspaper
• No morality, for example when they kill Victor, how they find it, FILM NOIR.
• Abandoned house of the victim, it looks really cold 
• Library show like a laberint 

Sound:

• The sound try to give us tension
• Diagetic sounds
• Sound depends on characters 

Characters:

• Vestiment, dark colours, not colorful clothes.
• David Mills: A lot of media, more people.
• William Somerset: Dark investigation, he is alone in the investigation, this show us the different worlds that the two detectives have. 
• Switching between the two detectives to compare them
•  How Mills investigate the case, seeing photos to solve something, and how the other read and fotocopy a book to solve the crime.
• Mills do a shortcut of Dante poetry because he don´t like to read, in the other hand the other detective read all the book in the library and also do fotocopies 

Pulp Fiction comments:

Textual analysis:

-Narrative: “Chilled”/relaxed/cool

Theme(s)/ concerns/mood

Characters: Vega-drug dependary, lots of close-ups, middle of mise-en-scene, camera follows him, strange/alternative/rebellious. Dialogue about piercings, sexual pleasure, relationships between husband wife (sense of normality), ditch angle shots

Camera/sound/mise-en-scene: Music, dream-like guitars-lighting-drugs are highlighted in close up. Colours: white and red. Slow movements. Injection in slow motion

"Tree house"

Strengths:

-Music, can be in the moment that is needed and is good.
-Editing the document.

Weaknesses:

-Bad dialogue.
-Is not a theme that cautivate audience.

The production journal of "Tree house" can be good. In some parts they don´t do reflections at all stages.
The sample materials that they used, they explain where they tak from, what they used, how they put the camera to determine some shots.
They do an evaluation of the project finished and they can improve their project with more organization.

Production Journals Thursday 1st September 2011

Now, we have the film material to edit and work on it. We have the material that we film and with what we have to work to do and interesting documental about 4-5 minutes long. First, we do a copy of the material and then we work on changing B-ROLL footage. We work along an hour through this, to have our documental in the best form possible.

"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.

Production Journals: 4th July

In Toto Productions we start to prepare the our production journal. To prepare this we have to spend 25 minutes preparing or starting to write our production journal. Also discuss our textual analysis of Eden Lake and seeing this with our feedback. The production journal is the work that evaluates us individually, are the individual records of our documentary work. The production journals evaluate our work so far, the successes that you have, what problems do you have and how you solved them, what changes do you have to do? , what are you going to do next?

Production Journals: Friday June 10

In Toto Productions, for our documentary we choose a problematic that is frequent in Argentina. The driving in Argentina, our country that is in the top five of the world ranking in the car accidents. We think that this problematic is not so hard to search information about, for example interviewing people that drives out in the street all day, the man that drive taxis out in Capital Federal, is easy and safer to us, searching the information about this problematic. My role in this project is the camarographer.

Starting this projects in Toto Productions first we choose to film public schools in Argentina but really was a problem to find information about it, entering the public schools was a problem.. so we change the problematic for our document.

Production Journals: Friday 1st July

Today, Friday 1st July we have to finish our story outline with our images, keystone, equipment, and ideas completed on storyboard templates. We upload and submit all our research information and our work done. Demonstrate evidence of e-mail, phone calls, etc. of Toto Productions if its contact with someone or something.

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.

Production Journals: 27th June 2011

To improve and help us to do our first documentary film work, we have to see "Capturing the Friedmans", is a documentary that is around a family about their problems of one brother in the family. Using this documentary film, we have to get ideas and techniques to use in our first documentary work, take out some notes and upload it to our own blog, this documentary film help us to have and idea and use techniques when you ask something to someone.

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