This week we watched the class’s rough cuts. It was interesting to see the different documentaries that people are making within our class – most of them contained traditional style interviews and cut-aways/filler shots and were well filmed and put together in a linear style which had a strong final resolving point. Between the insomnia one and the cubby house, I loved the latter. Although Paul and Robin gave praise for the insomnia doco, I actually wasn’t as into it as they seemed to be. It certainly was an interesting topic and it was fairly well shot and well put together, but it didn’t retain my interest throughout. I’m not sure why – I think that there was perhaps too much dialogue from the insomniac woman, who did have some interesting things to say but those seemed (to me) to be slightly diluted in a sense by some of the other things she spoke in length about. Overall though, it was a good film and they did a really good job.
The cubby house film was great – I loved the track that they used that was actually an original by one of their subjects who lives at the housing commission. It really added character and emotion to the film in the beginning. The use of all the different kids merely stating their names allowed us to see the range of nationalities and people within the housing commission which was really clever. The actual filming was great, too, as well as the editing, and with the vibrant colours within the cubby house playground it created a really interesting mis-en-scene. I really liked that film.
Ours was still pretty rough and we had a bit still to shoot, but we’d added a French song to the opening and turned it black and white which added a whole new dimension to the film. We’d originally thought of opening and closing the film with footage of Nuth swimming, although I think we’ll rather stick to the black and white footage of him driving to create a continuity of driving throughout the film as we’re focusing on his role as a delivery boy – and it won’t hurt to use concept of driving in the metaphorical sense with our film being quite vague in the storyline department.
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