Research Report 2- The Pilot

My pilot encompasses all of the five points of my tribe and encompasses what my project is all about. Throughout making the pilot i encountered various problems. The biggest was to do with the file locations on the computer. I got this set up by a teacher but along the way something went wrong, which i still do not know and will endeavour to find out before i start on the next scene. This meant that i started the project three times before i was successful and then only because i opted to work directly from the computer rather than the hard drive.

The scene is the initiation of a new tribal member and myself who is undertaking the role of Bruce Parry. Initiations are a big part of being accepted in societies whether western (the sweet sixteen or 18^th birthday or in catholic countries conformation) or indigenous culture (in Tribe sometime taking hallucinogenic substances or in Australian aborigines, to go on a trek. Every culture has an initiation when you think about it. This scene encompasses a trait of humanity that is shown in many Anthropological films and therefore a good example of the convention of the ethnographical genre. For my tribe this is the dirty pint.

The scene itself shows a good example of techniques i will be using in my film. The interview with cut always to other people and the merging of numerous interviews with the same person, the contemplative  talk to the camera, and cinematic convention in lighting (natural) and camera angles (low angle for interviews, handheld camera for most of the rest)

Also the pilot will be an example of all of the five points

1.       Language Barrier, which will be presented by the subtitles

2.       Issues, being part of a tribe and acceptance to the social group

3.        Knowledge The dirty pint is a parody of a concoction that shamans and witch doctors create, for example medicinal reasons

4.       Location, As part of a house in the village of the Tribes

5.       Daily Life: As a part of tribal life. Innate in their culture.

One problem encountered during the export of the film was that the colour became very over saturated which wasn't like that when i watched the finsihed version in final cut. This will have to be dealt with when i turn this pilot as part of my final piece.