I HATE TRANSCRIBING

Comparison

I've used photographs I have found of Filton in the past as a framework for the shots from my film. Here is the same chemist.

Reflexive Documentaries

This is a reflexive documentary. This is the most difficult type to define yet. It incorporates a lot of the characteristics of the other genres but also uses film forms and conventions. Humour occurs more frequently and is mostly provided by the soundtrack. 


An example of this in the documentary below is when the voiceover talks about the poison the cane toad excretes when threatened, it then cuts to a compelling young child innocently picking up a cane toad, (accompanied by jaws type music), only to be saved by his mother just in the nick of time. There is also a short pyscho esque scene with the toads etc. The facts are definitely in the film yet it is interjected with humour and small skit like scenes.

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History

Interactive Documentaries

Interactive documentaries are separate from the other forms by explicitly acknowledging the presence of the camera and the crew behind it, making the type not interactive in itself but documenting the interaction which took place between the subjects and the interviewer. This shifts the weighting on the factual elements, which is crucial to the expository documentary mode, to personal accounts and opinions in an exchange which took place as a question and answer.

Sad Song of Yellow Skin

This is a great documentary, it allows all the insecurities of the makers to be made transparent to the viewer. Though it is a really difficult situation, It is about a group of 3 Americans in Vietnam, they aren't soldiers but aren't really distinguishable from them in the Vietnamese eyes which is understandable, they look the same and speak with the same accents and appear to have the same amount of money. The film explores these men trying to get under the surface of the Vietnamese people but are finding it extremely difficult because the amount of resentment and anger which is felt. 

Chronicle of a Summer

The film below is an interactive documentary. An interactive documentary is where the camera crew and co are involved within the film, you can often see them physically in the film interacting with the subjects. The clips below follows a conversation of real 'normal' people living in Paris in 1961. The man interjecting with questions is part of the documentary makers crew. The focus not on the performance if the camera WASN'T there but the performance of the subjects when the camera IS there.

Scene from "Chronique d'un été"

AND THE KILLER SHOT

And the second batch

Some stills from the second batch which came out exceedingly well also. Some parts are a little out of focus but on the whole most of it is in focus, it's is similar to the polaroid SX-70 so my eyes was a bit trained. I begin to edit it next week!!!! This is from the minolta camera. You can see the part of the next frame at the bottom which is the fault of the projector and I could make a fuss and try and get it re digitised. Not sure I can given the time I've got left which is less than 4 weeks and I am going to London this weekend to see Emilies brand spanky new BABY. I'm going to need to do a crash course in FinalCut Pro.

Stills from first batch of film

Here are some stills from the first batch of Super 8 Film. There are a few dud shots and sometimes it moves too quickly but the overall effect I am extremely happy with. It makes Filton look very nostalgic and softens its appearance some what. Though check out the permanent dot and hair at the bottom.