Film TV 2 reflection 3 qu. 2

Fiction and Non-Fiction : The Great Divide

Two point from this reading that interested me:

1. Re-enaching the real: the Performing of real-life scenarios

It is difficult to find the line between fictional and non fictional moments when re-creation is involved. The difference between ‘based on a true story’ and re-enactments of moments that happened in the past is extremely hard to define. There are many different classifications of these moments, such as documentary, drama-documentary and documentary-drama. Where the classification between fictional and non-fictional is drawn in relations to these situations, I am still not entirely sure!

2. Rights and Wrongs

I have always know that you must have the rights to fictional story in order to crate a film about it, however I have never considered an event or occurs that actually happened ‘belonging’ to someone and that person or com pay having power to make money off and do whatever they wish to with it.

Fiction and nonfiction : the great divide? In Ward, Paul. Documentary : the margins of reality, (p. 31-48). London : Wallflower, 2005.

Film TV 2 reflection 3 qu one

Creating the abstract video was an interesting task that was a useful and practical learning tool. Not having as much experience with the camera as I would like to, or should have, caused the filming of the shots to be more difficult than needed. In the end we got some interesting shots of shadows, our intended theme, however they were not as effective as they could have been due to not fully understanding or knowing well enough how to make the focus and exposure be at good levels for what we were filming.

I missed the first class so used some sounds from an unnamed folder in the media sever (hope that is okay and thank you to whoever’s sounds I used). The sounds I used we completely unrelated to the footage I used which was great as I was able to experiment with the idea of creating something abstract really well. Normally I am very included to create things that are straight forward and tend to shy away from the abstract.

I still think that I could have created a more abstract piece than I did, however it has turned out to be more abstract than I have created before.

My main two limitations for this exercise were:

1. control of the camera and therefore control of the shots and

2. knowledge of the editing process, I knew the straight forward things to incorporate, however I didn’t know how to implement some of the ideas I had to make the film more abstract due to not having enough knowledge of premiere pro and not leaving myself enough time to experiment with the program fully.

 

Gabrielle McLeod Abstract Task from Gabrielle McLeod on Vimeo.

 

 

Film and TV 2 Reflection 2 Qu2

Imagining Reality

  1. The idea that documentary ‘is not to convey objective information about the world, but to show it as I see it’ is an interesting one that I think a lot of people over look. Often Documentaries are seen as fact or presented as objective but I think it is vital to understand there is no way that a documentary can be created without someone’s perspective or view swaying the content of the film.
  2. I never knew the reliance that documentary film has on TV. It was an interesting problem to read about and is something that is not widely known.

Pawel Pawlikowski. In MacDonald, K & Cousins, M. Imagining reality, (p. 389-392). London: Faber & Faber, 1996.

Film and TV 2 Reflection 2 Qu1

I think that the creators of the film ‘End of the Line’ produced a really intriguing documentary. The people they interviewed provided the documentary with a really interesting base of knowledge and examples of the place Broken Hill. There was a constant feel created throughout the film that reflected the ‘vibe’ or ‘atmosphere’ in Broken Hill that was being explored. The element that I believed worked in their favour the most was the choice of participants, in particular the elderly woman who spoke mainly about death. The morbid things this lady talks about, in a matter of fact, even almost cheerful, way are partnered with eerie shots of the lifeless town and red dessert. This lady is the perfect participant for the film and what she says is confirmed and enhanced by the other participants.

The filming was another element of the film that worked well. The shots of the town and surrounding areas, as well as the filming and location of the interviews was well done and provided extra context for the film, allowing the audience to build a greater connection to the story of the participants.

‘End of the Line’ was an extremely engaging documentary that drew the audience in with a portrayal of Broken Hill and the citizens who live there. They took a topic that could have been quite dull and presented in a way that was truly powerful.