Research Report 6- Theoretical Context

Within this film i am firstly exploring conventions of Anthropological film, this is fairly straight forward as i thoroughly analyse pieces of work by various ethnographers and depictations of western culture transposed in a tribal setting.
Also i am intereted in how anthropological despictations have been subverted. For instance "World's Lost Tribes" were accused off subverting their program to suit and grip the intended audience http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/02/mark-and-olly-living-with-machigenga and indeed Jean Rouch was accused by anthropologists as misrepresenting the African people, though this is an example of the train of thought that was in his era. Also i lightly looked at how Herges earlier work was accused of being rascist in its depictions of different ethnicities. I iwll be looking to subvert what the tribe says in the subtitles. I am still in process of deciding how i could further depict the Tribe, maybe through a scene in which a big deal is made out of something that really would not faze my tribe at all.
On filming anthroplogical documentaries Jean Rouch who has lived in the Niger region since a young man said “Personally. I am violently oppresses to film crews. My reasons are several. The sound engineer must fully understand the language of the people he is recording. It is thus indispensable that he belong to ethno group being filmed and that he be trained in the details of his job.
Besides with the present techniques used in direct cinema the film maker must be the cameraman. And the ethnologist alone in my mind is the one who knows when where and how to film i.e. do the production . Finally and this is doubtless the decisive argument, the ethnologist should spend quite a long time in the field before undertaking the least bit of filmmaking. This period of reflection of learning of mutual understanding might be extremely long but such as stay is incomparable with the schedules and stays of the technicians.”
I can really apply this quote to my filming, as a student myself i am in essence looking at my own social group. Though subverting and exaggerating aspects of it, i have a greater understanding doing this then if i did an anthropological film on goth culture, which i would know nothing apart from the black clothing they wear. Or for example or if a film crew came in and did a study on students.
I have always been somewhat of a flaneur, coined by essayist Charles Baudelaire;  someone who studies other humans and takes an interest in their cultures within our own culture, often when i am travelling. Evry human you make any contact with whether a glimpse in the street or the woman you sit opposite in a long train journey has a story to tell and this is one of the main things i am doing. I am engaging in a social group that is my life and is wholely interesting to me as i engage on this on an everyday aspect.