Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Pre Production Plans

Location: Kitchen, Garden (House in general)
Lighting: Natural lighting + house (tungsten) lights.
Audio: (at2020/ seperated audio resynch) (or in camera mic depending on situation)

Shot variety:
Extreme Close up: Phone calls with extended family. Cooking/Cleaning.
Wide shots: house.
Medium: walking about, organizing house.
Close Up: Hugging Courtney

My mom is originally a lawyer but gave up her career to raise me and my sister. She currently works as a home maker and personal chauffeur. Cooking, cleaning, organizing and keeping the family in check are only some of the things she does around the house. She is a strong figure in her family and often helps to manage extended-family affairs.



Nanook of the North:

Nanook of The North is an avant garde (for its time) documentary film. Although, realistically, it is difficult to define as a documentary because most of the characters are played by actors. One of the most interesting aspect of the film, above all else, is the unique camera work. Even though it used a large scale film camera, cuts are frequent implying that much work and planning went in to capturing the shots. Every minute detail is carefully contrived. The storyline of the film is fairly romanticized; bringing the inuit people to western light by telling the story of Nanook. Although this can be seen as sacrilegious to documentary filmmaking, the wide spread of Nanook of The North and the knowledge it brought the world far overpowers the minor problem of of not conforming to modern standards of documentary filmmaking. Overall, the movie did have moments that tapered onto the risque side, but never failed to tell the legitimate, harm-warming story of Nanook and his people.