Thursday, 3 May 2012
Monday, 30 April 2012
What could i have done differently?
I could have easily spent another week on the film constantly going over the film many times, to make sure everything was absolutely fine. I feel i did this well enough but i had other work commitments and after a long edit process (over 3 weeks) i felt i had come to the end, and could no longer work on this without bringing myself to complete exhaustion, and therefore no time to revise for my exams.
What could i have done differently? The film had taken many changes over the course of its pre production but still ended up very much as i had envisaged the film, i guess mainly from the editing that i had done to make it so.
There were a few parts that looking back with Maria, my tutor i could have changed. With the FIFA scene she said she wasn't too sure on what the game is and i could have included some shots of this. To be honest i hadn't tried, as out of experience the shot has waves rippling across the screen. I could have changed this easily but the edit was too far in.
I think with an extra five minutes of film time it could have been made a lot clearer in parts and more informative with narrative and interviews, but obviously there was a time restriction so i made best what i could do.
On my original edit the scavenge and hunt had been over 4 minutes each so this was cut down a lot. I could have spent a long long time deliberating what to leave and out, a process which could have taken many days, but i was quite brutal on my approach to it and if something didn't work so well then it was cut.
The only few mistakes i found within the film were a few very subtle bits of continuity, notably there s one occasion were for a brief second one can see i am wearing different trousers and at the hunt scene one can see the beer levels fluctuate a bit as it was done over the course of 2 hours, and for the tribe the beer was flowing.
I had until the end been keen to record the didgeridoo and djembe for the opening sequence and credits. However using the equipment i had i felt the sound quality was not as good as it could be. The didgeridoo emits huge low frequency waves and a massive wall of bass tone which either completely override the equipment, so one gets this huge wall of sound, or if one is further away there are two many background noises. I needed to go to a music studio, and these were close for easter. A bit disappointing as i was looking forward to doing it but a minor blip really. My friend Jess downloaded a plethora of digeridoo recordings and i chose a suitable one, to exoticise the tribe. The track uses at the start was a low drone which gave the opening sequence an air of mystery and the end was more lively...more "allegro" as you wish to give the ending, though the presenter is dispirited, a jovial esque edning
Other then that i was very happy with the outcome.The pilot had been a bit disappointing as the color was exported badly and was a bit haphazard, though this was to engage in understanding the technique of how my final film would be made. The film had been a stressful process to film, but once i was hocked up in the edit suite i found much of the process very relaxing
What could i have done differently? The film had taken many changes over the course of its pre production but still ended up very much as i had envisaged the film, i guess mainly from the editing that i had done to make it so.
There were a few parts that looking back with Maria, my tutor i could have changed. With the FIFA scene she said she wasn't too sure on what the game is and i could have included some shots of this. To be honest i hadn't tried, as out of experience the shot has waves rippling across the screen. I could have changed this easily but the edit was too far in.
I think with an extra five minutes of film time it could have been made a lot clearer in parts and more informative with narrative and interviews, but obviously there was a time restriction so i made best what i could do.
On my original edit the scavenge and hunt had been over 4 minutes each so this was cut down a lot. I could have spent a long long time deliberating what to leave and out, a process which could have taken many days, but i was quite brutal on my approach to it and if something didn't work so well then it was cut.
The only few mistakes i found within the film were a few very subtle bits of continuity, notably there s one occasion were for a brief second one can see i am wearing different trousers and at the hunt scene one can see the beer levels fluctuate a bit as it was done over the course of 2 hours, and for the tribe the beer was flowing.
I had until the end been keen to record the didgeridoo and djembe for the opening sequence and credits. However using the equipment i had i felt the sound quality was not as good as it could be. The didgeridoo emits huge low frequency waves and a massive wall of bass tone which either completely override the equipment, so one gets this huge wall of sound, or if one is further away there are two many background noises. I needed to go to a music studio, and these were close for easter. A bit disappointing as i was looking forward to doing it but a minor blip really. My friend Jess downloaded a plethora of digeridoo recordings and i chose a suitable one, to exoticise the tribe. The track uses at the start was a low drone which gave the opening sequence an air of mystery and the end was more lively...more "allegro" as you wish to give the ending, though the presenter is dispirited, a jovial esque edning
Other then that i was very happy with the outcome.The pilot had been a bit disappointing as the color was exported badly and was a bit haphazard, though this was to engage in understanding the technique of how my final film would be made. The film had been a stressful process to film, but once i was hocked up in the edit suite i found much of the process very relaxing
Exporting
Upon exporting the project i was able to watch it back for the first time as a file format, that wasn't affected by the editing program. I was able to see if their were any minor mistakes in the film much better then through premier pro.
Upon the first export i realized that some of the settings were not configured correctly meaning the film was stuterry and sluggish in some parts.
The second export i followed Cluna's handout to make the export play smoothly realized that of the sound was slightly louder at the part where the tribe goes on a hunt so i went over it and leveled out the sound to fit in with the rest of the film, which was an easy task to manage.
Also i had spelt my mates name wrong in the credits, so went back over this and added a credit still at the end of the rolling credits.
Upon the first export i realized that some of the settings were not configured correctly meaning the film was stuterry and sluggish in some parts.
The second export i followed Cluna's handout to make the export play smoothly realized that of the sound was slightly louder at the part where the tribe goes on a hunt so i went over it and leveled out the sound to fit in with the rest of the film, which was an easy task to manage.
Also i had spelt my mates name wrong in the credits, so went back over this and added a credit still at the end of the rolling credits.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Finishing the Project
The final tweaks to the film where done today. I played back the film to a few friends who gave me advice on what i could do do amend any small errors. In theory i could spend another week getting the film completely tweaked but i was running out of time for other university commitments and had given this project precedence over anything else.
I was happy with the project. After the shambles of the pilot and difficulties encountered in making the project (mainly organization) i never expected it to turn it this well. Though there were a few minor things that could be amended i was happy and if i had the time could possibly go back and do a bit more fine tuning if i had time.
A major relief and another thing to tick of the list that has been on my bedroom wall since september....
Colour Correcting
One of the main problems i encountered during the edit was the coloring of some of the footage, for the "hunt" scene we used my panasonic sd900 and Jess's Canon (......). Both cameras took the light in differently, mine more blue tones and Jess's took in warmer colors.
There was a dramatic difference in the tones and i needed to colour correct this. No really having much of a clue what i was doing a drafted one of the technicians, Patricia in to help and she showed me the process which gave the shots as much a continuity of vision as they could.
There was a dramatic difference in the tones and i needed to colour correct this. No really having much of a clue what i was doing a drafted one of the technicians, Patricia in to help and she showed me the process which gave the shots as much a continuity of vision as they could.
Sunday, 22 April 2012
Definition of Tribe to Sideways Looks Exhibition
My Final Year Film Title: "The Tribe: A Student Experience"
Description: Inspired by Bruce Parry's series "The Tribe: A Student Experience", is an anthropological film following "tribal" student social life. The presenter stays with a tribe of students for a short period of time and learns about the rituals, explores the unique ways of life and learns of the trials that the tribe face in everyday life.
Description: Inspired by Bruce Parry's series "The Tribe: A Student Experience", is an anthropological film following "tribal" student social life. The presenter stays with a tribe of students for a short period of time and learns about the rituals, explores the unique ways of life and learns of the trials that the tribe face in everyday life.
The Photos. A thought....
While creating screen shots of the film i realise that for the first time in my life i had taken an album of photos of moving life.. I realised with taking stills of film you get the best representation of real life becasue no one is really posing for the duration.Some of these photos were acting and others where from general improvisation which the camera caught at its best
I think the one of Lloyd holding the tea box (all 5 of the scavnegers) and Wil and Chris by the fire are the best as they capture a true essence of reality.
I apologise for the simplistic discriptions, i think a few words and then to leave the rest for the film!
Film Stills-
Meeting the Tribe
Walking to the Tribe Finian and his support crew
Sat by the bonfire
Raggy tries his luck
An ususual farewell
After the scavenge
Bonfire
The End
Bonfire
Leaving the tribe
The hangover
On the way to the tribe
Kicking the esteemed pressenter
First glimpse of tribal members
The Hunt
The scavenge
Disregarding of the UWE hoody in disgust of the most grevious graffiting of his face.
Post Hunt
Meeting the Tribe
Fifa Addicted member of the tribe
Unsuccesful Scavenge
The Hunt
The marker pen attack.
Walking home
.....
Winning Fifa
The scavengeSound
Today i was editing the sound, which i found very
enjoyable. I personally think sound is crucial to a film and thus will
spend as much time as i can to get it right:
I was merging in
the sounds of the various cuts to give the film more flow. Fading conversations
out over narrative and into over shots was another edit for continuity and flow
i did.
I added background
noises,to give continuity and to help set the scene in more of a
wilder exotic place, birds chirping crickets and the music.. I already at
a bit of fire sound in the background but this was broken up with other sound.
I wanted a sound that wasn't too sharp in the background when the narrative was
playing. Finding these sounds was quite easy though i did struggle with
the fire. I wanted the sound to be true to its nature, burning twigs and scrub
sound different to the chairs bed and other unusual
items acquired for the bonfire. The former is a
more crackly sound whereas the MDF planks of the bed and chair etc
sounded heavy and dull.I couldn't find this after looking through a load of you
tube effects unfortunately so used a crackly sound. I'm probably being too
fickle....
Originally in the
hunt scene i had envision it in a field. But then on actually doing
an anthropological study i realize this was quite out of place
and changed the setting. in the original shoot i wanted to do the sound for it
using didgeridoos and djembes but i did not think this would suit the
new setting. I will layer the track for the credits tomorrow morning
using these instruments
For the Hunt in
the bar i contemplated using contemporary music for backing, something along
the lines of what we listen to more often then not in bars etc etc.
However i thought
that using some different music from what one would expect in a bar one
you exoticise the tribe somewhat which anthropological film makers
have often been criticized for doing.
I used some of the
music me and my friends had been playing and recording during the summer of
last year, during weeks of idleness. We did a few Hispanic and
flamenco inspired recordings. One of the songs is a polka beat
mariachi song called "My Love" which used a variety of colorful instruments
and the other which was a loose cover of Buena Vista Social Clubs "Chan
Chan" which followed the progression but and used Phrygian scales over the rhythmn. Phrygian scales are dominant in flamenco, gypsy and Arabic music. The
music to symbolizes the exotic heightens
the juxtaposition of the ordinary nature of what your
showing in the context of the satirical film.
Also it was a nice
touch to the film to be able to music crafted from your own instruments.
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
A hark to Jean Rouche
Jean Rouch declared that
“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
I have essentially taken this as an approach to my film, i am part of this "Tribe" and social group though i have evidently distance myself as portraying myself as wrongly coming in as an outsider, yet knowing what parts of life as a student would work well in an ethnographical film.Mind games.
“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
I have essentially taken this as an approach to my film, i am part of this "Tribe" and social group though i have evidently distance myself as portraying myself as wrongly coming in as an outsider, yet knowing what parts of life as a student would work well in an ethnographical film.Mind games.
The Voice Over
The voice over was what i was going to be saving last, after i had the edit and knew how long i would have to do my dialogue. I would like to think sound is one of my stronger points but this is from experience with music recording which is a bit different to voice overs, something i have done comparatively little of.
I had a fairly good idea of what i was going to say throughout the planning and adapted this to the film content, taking bits of the interviews i could not include in the film to give the narrative valid information to my film as well as content.
The introduction was practically taken word for word to what Bruce Parry says at the start, slightly adapted to suit the film. I had already done a test introduction, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N360sRhSWf4 using a condenser mic and soundboard usually used for music recordings of vocals and un-amplified musically equipment.The one advantage of using this was that i could put it into sound editing programs which i am more familiar with and edit it at ease. However i had difficulty getting the converted soundfiles to be edited in premier pro. Regardless i didn't take the problem much further as unfortunately i didn't have a pop filter so this picked up literally everything including some very faint wind chimes and some dastardly pigeon cooing in the tree.
Instead I used my HDC SD900 camera for memory and Jess's "Roede" shotgun mic to recorded the sound, which made it far better then previous attempts.The first round of takes i did was for the introduction, the fire scene and the FIFA scene. I did this in M16, but upon to hearing the sound quality it was too echoic and so resolved to go back and re-do this, as personally audio quality has been the most important thing in a film.
I waited till midnight and recorded in my bedroom which had a softer surfaces for the waves to bounce. The dead of night was good as there wasn't any inept housemates galloping up and down the stairs in my house.
I did it fairly efficiently but as usual red light syndrome (wherein in practicing you will do fine but as soon as the record button goes on you screw up) meant that i tongue twisted my words and had to do many takes on one or two of the paragraphs.
I have been i tend to have a slight slur on my speech down to my accent so i really made sure that i pronounced my words properly and clearly and didn't fall into some gibberish Welsh Marches tongue.
Now the voice over is done the film will, upon adding it tomorrow feel far more completed and a huge step in progress.
I had a fairly good idea of what i was going to say throughout the planning and adapted this to the film content, taking bits of the interviews i could not include in the film to give the narrative valid information to my film as well as content.
The introduction was practically taken word for word to what Bruce Parry says at the start, slightly adapted to suit the film. I had already done a test introduction, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N360sRhSWf4 using a condenser mic and soundboard usually used for music recordings of vocals and un-amplified musically equipment.The one advantage of using this was that i could put it into sound editing programs which i am more familiar with and edit it at ease. However i had difficulty getting the converted soundfiles to be edited in premier pro. Regardless i didn't take the problem much further as unfortunately i didn't have a pop filter so this picked up literally everything including some very faint wind chimes and some dastardly pigeon cooing in the tree.
Instead I used my HDC SD900 camera for memory and Jess's "Roede" shotgun mic to recorded the sound, which made it far better then previous attempts.The first round of takes i did was for the introduction, the fire scene and the FIFA scene. I did this in M16, but upon to hearing the sound quality it was too echoic and so resolved to go back and re-do this, as personally audio quality has been the most important thing in a film.
I waited till midnight and recorded in my bedroom which had a softer surfaces for the waves to bounce. The dead of night was good as there wasn't any inept housemates galloping up and down the stairs in my house.
I did it fairly efficiently but as usual red light syndrome (wherein in practicing you will do fine but as soon as the record button goes on you screw up) meant that i tongue twisted my words and had to do many takes on one or two of the paragraphs.
I have been i tend to have a slight slur on my speech down to my accent so i really made sure that i pronounced my words properly and clearly and didn't fall into some gibberish Welsh Marches tongue.
Now the voice over is done the film will, upon adding it tomorrow feel far more completed and a huge step in progress.
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Editing
Editing has gone well, though i did lose a considerable amount of edited footage when the idiot i am forgot to disconnect my hard drive. Initially annoyed i realized after talking to Maria the scenes would need to be cut right down to fit the required length, so in a way this was a good thing.
The filming was immensely hard and now i can laze back and edit at ease, which has been great fun to see what i have had planned all year come to fruition.
I choose to use premier pro as final cut gave me so much grief last term. So far no problems have occurred much unlike my trip to hell with final cut and i am confident to finish by the end of the week!
The filming was immensely hard and now i can laze back and edit at ease, which has been great fun to see what i have had planned all year come to fruition.
I choose to use premier pro as final cut gave me so much grief last term. So far no problems have occurred much unlike my trip to hell with final cut and i am confident to finish by the end of the week!
Concerning the role of Finian Pye
As i embarked to become the role of the intrepid adventurer and explorer i constantly had to mentally distance myself from what my friends were doing on shoot, so i tried to act as naive as i could so it wouldn't seem that these were people i knew.
I've never had any professional acting experience though have been complimented on my role in other films so gritted my teeth (its always so cringing watching oneself back).
As the filming progresses and i tried to disengage my self from my mates, asking what FIFA is is a very big lie, i know damn well what it is :( i realized my character was pretty wimpy and the fact i get told i cant play fifa attests to this.
As we did the last few shoots i asked for the tribe to subtly perceive me as a nuisance and a burden to the tribe which i had asked not to be at the start of the film.
This will be evident in the last scence
Subtitles
The topic of language has always been a source of constant change within my film. I talked to Cluna today regarding how the subtitles would work and decided that actually the subtitles wouldn’t really help the films that much. The main task of the subtitles was to show the language barrier and subvert the messages however as the film has evolved it has become apparent that it would not work so well.
· I felt the subtitles would distract the viewer from what is being said,
· The language barrier is already given in a lot of linguistics when used with common language gives the viewer and understanding but at the same time a distance from the “Tribe”
· Subversion of what they are doing come with the narrative I give, and how I have portrayed the tribe in the first place. Firstly for instance in the FIFA dispute I critique the game (which in real life is pretty lame and I don’t get why a good half of my mates play it) and say how bored I am watching it.
· I have essentially subverted the tribe in my filming. All the scenes are essentially things we do but through the filming have been shpwn to be far more extreme.. For instance we scavenge (for firewood, we found an old chair for the garden,) but not to this level. In the hunt again we are sat round the SU as we so often have done over the last few years but it has been warped, or with the FIFA game which is often the cuase of disputes!!!
The Fire Scene 11th April 2012
Today I did a few extra shots for what I needed on top of what we already had and any shoots I felt I had left out or were needed to help the narrative. Then later on that evening the last scene of the film was filmed with the main cast assembled.
We literally scavenged the Neighbourhood for firewood (which is where I had originally got the idea of the scavenge from) and may have disassembled from a dodgy chair from my kitchen.
We brought the sofas out in the garden, grilled some food and got a few beers down us, and got the guitars which are one of our pastimes in the summer-ish days we occasionally get in England, to get ourselves in the state of mind for the final scene.
I have always loved fire as lighting, and always wanted to have a scene which had fire as the lighting really brings out dominant shadowing and gives a warm light to the footage. I have always had a nostalgia to my childhood and teenage years sat around campfires so felt this needed to be attributed to the film
The shoot went well and was done within an hour, Looking back at the footage I had a ridiculous amount of shots from which I could have potentially made a film in its own with. I had a good pool of resources to make this scene work now.
All of us were pretty tired after a long week of uni work in the day and beers in the evening, which I reflected on in the narrative. We were all quite content watching the fire on full stomachs and topping ourselves with more beer
After the scene was done we cracked open a few more cans in celebration and a slightly groggy but content head the next morning.
Saturday, 7 April 2012
Project so far.
So most of the filming has been done and it is now to shack up in the editing studio to get on the edit. There are one or two more bits that need doing but it is looking to run smooth.
The film has evolved and changed alot since the idea first came to fruition.
-I have used real time events with the people involved which has influenced certain minor detail of the film.
-Scenes have been dropped and others added to go with how i feel the narrative with flow best.
-The language of the film has remained english, and i have now thought that only certain bits of the film should be subverted with the subtitles, as i dont think it would work if the whole film was subverted which would make it far too confusing for the audience to follow and lose attention to other detail in the film
-At first i was wary about the amount of swearing, should i pluck up the courage to show the film to grandma but then i realized that it is part of the language of the culture. Though in another way surely the supression of swearing would be a subversion of the tribe???
- Orginally much of the project was scripted. However myself and none of the participants are actors so we changed it to a loose strcuture wherein we could all improvise. This made it far more natural and less rigid in appreance like the pilot had
The film has evolved and changed alot since the idea first came to fruition.
-I have used real time events with the people involved which has influenced certain minor detail of the film.
-Scenes have been dropped and others added to go with how i feel the narrative with flow best.
-The language of the film has remained english, and i have now thought that only certain bits of the film should be subverted with the subtitles, as i dont think it would work if the whole film was subverted which would make it far too confusing for the audience to follow and lose attention to other detail in the film
-At first i was wary about the amount of swearing, should i pluck up the courage to show the film to grandma but then i realized that it is part of the language of the culture. Though in another way surely the supression of swearing would be a subversion of the tribe???
- Orginally much of the project was scripted. However myself and none of the participants are actors so we changed it to a loose strcuture wherein we could all improvise. This made it far more natural and less rigid in appreance like the pilot had
The Scavenge
Today a group of us set off for the scavenge, wherein the tribe are looking for bits an bobs to collect to supplement their diet/income. A lengthy interview with two of my friends gave me not only descent material for the interview but material to work from for my voice over which i will be using to weave together the film.
The shots we got for the scanevnge were consistent and upon editing work well.
No problems were encountered really though on one of the interview shots the background became really bleached which meant when i came to editing the footage i did not want to use as much as i would have liked.
A little touch i did at the end was getting my mate to waddle like the rhino out of jumangi i just think its little thing like this that no one else will really get that makes a film ones own.
The shots we got for the scanevnge were consistent and upon editing work well.
No problems were encountered really though on one of the interview shots the background became really bleached which meant when i came to editing the footage i did not want to use as much as i would have liked.
A little touch i did at the end was getting my mate to waddle like the rhino out of jumangi i just think its little thing like this that no one else will really get that makes a film ones own.
The Hunt Scene Continued
The hunt scene went very well, instilling a confidence that made me realise that this difficult project would take a shape now.
For the hunt we used two cameras my HDC SD900 which is good a low light, which we used for the outside scenes alot and my friend Jess's Canon (something something, in any case a good camera!!) so that when we did interviews etc we got the same footage from different angles.
The one problem with using two different types of camera, mine picks up a more bluey darker tone and Jess's camera takes in very warm colours so i will be colour correcting the differences in Premier Pro.
There were no problems encountered and my actors improvised very well. Afterwards a few beers were in order
For the hunt we used two cameras my HDC SD900 which is good a low light, which we used for the outside scenes alot and my friend Jess's Canon (something something, in any case a good camera!!) so that when we did interviews etc we got the same footage from different angles.
The one problem with using two different types of camera, mine picks up a more bluey darker tone and Jess's camera takes in very warm colours so i will be colour correcting the differences in Premier Pro.
There were no problems encountered and my actors improvised very well. Afterwards a few beers were in order
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Hunt
The Hunt.
In this scene we will see two of the main people in the tribe we have been following, Paul and Chris hunt for women. Previously I thought that this would be in the field as if it was literally a tribe going on a hunt in the bush, but as this is not so applicable to the ways of thr tribe, and would look very out of place it should be in a more natural setting for the tribe, the bar.
We will still see a very similar scene to how I originally had it planned out but in a different environment
CU Fin asking Paul and Chris what the hunt entails off.
Few CU Shots Paul and Raggy explain the hunt, tells Fin to come get ready
CU Feet Walking to Bathroom
MCU getting ready talk about shirt and aftershave for the ladies
CU Raggy and Pk at the table “Im really Nervous….NOT”
MCU Sittin’ on Table
CU Watching out for prey
CU Raggy, we got one.
Zoom in on Daisy at Bar
CU MCU creeping up
MCU CU Chatting to
Daisy
Paul going off with Daisy
Interview Chris “Easy as that mate”
@ 7pm St Matthias Bar
Fifa Scene Shoot. (16-03-2012)
The FIFA scene will be involving the tribes near fanatic interest towards football. The tribe will be shown using football as a means to solve problems and minor issues within the tribe.
The scene will be on improvisation with some guidelines on how the event will go. A conflict which is resolved through a computer game called FIFA. We will see the conflict being over a beer which may seem like a minor thing for our culture, but will be a fairly big deal for the tribe.
Imposed within the scene will be shots of the tribe playing football and watching football. This is an unhealthy obsession for the group. Meanwhile a narrative is being dubbed over these shots.
Equipment Needed.
Handheld Camera (Panasonic HDC SD900)
FIFA game.
Xbox
Controllers
Beer
Actors.
Shot List
MCU Walking thru into house
MCU See Chief
Talk to Chief CU MCU
The Game talk to those involved MCU
CU of game, hands playing, people watching
MCU of result
CU post game chat with Finian.
The shoot went ahead as planned and was good fun to do with those involved. Unlike the pilot where there was a lot of scripted wording within the shoot this was an improvisation and felt a lot more naturalistic. I am please with the outcome of the shots as they do look like they have been done out on the field.
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Tribal Problems
For looking into an issue of the tribe i have been looking into what afflicts Tribes. For our tribe it will be money and overtly politcal students.
I thought alongside what i have watched in Tribe an insight into roblems usingsome Articles relating to this would be useful.
http://selchieproductions.tumblr.com/post/17024666468/brazilian-indians-fear-imminent-eviction-from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/dec/11/weather.climatechange
http://www.inspq.qc.ca/pdf/publications/1072_ProblJeuPremNationsVillagesInuits_VA.pdf
I thought alongside what i have watched in Tribe an insight into roblems usingsome Articles relating to this would be useful.
http://selchieproductions.tumblr.com/post/17024666468/brazilian-indians-fear-imminent-eviction-from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/dec/11/weather.climatechange
http://www.inspq.qc.ca/pdf/publications/1072_ProblJeuPremNationsVillagesInuits_VA.pdf
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Introduction to Tribe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N360sRhSWf4
The opening sequence, walking through the expanse to meet the "Tribe"
The opening sequence, walking through the expanse to meet the "Tribe"
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Revised Structure
Intro Voice over, Walking Snuff Mills
Meet Tribe
First day at Raggy's talk about problems (student riots) etc round fire
Pre Scavenge
Go for Scavenge
Hunt
Pastimes
Leave Tribe
Meet Tribe
First day at Raggy's talk about problems (student riots) etc round fire
Pre Scavenge
Go for Scavenge
Hunt
Pastimes
Leave Tribe
Schedule
Filming Schedule
Week 8 Monday 5th March
Wednesday 29th Filming the setting the scence down snuff mills and introduction to the chief
scavenge sunday 11th pm tach lloyd raggy scott george
Week 9 Monday 12th
hunt-tuesday 13th
fireside camp wed 14th?
Week 10 Monday 19th
all other filming
Week 11 Monday 26th
voice over week
Week 12 Monday 2nd April
film edit /any extra filming
Filming Complete April-Edit
Week 8 Monday 5th March
Wednesday 29th Filming the setting the scence down snuff mills and introduction to the chief
scavenge sunday 11th pm tach lloyd raggy scott george
Week 9 Monday 12th
hunt-tuesday 13th
fireside camp wed 14th?
Week 10 Monday 19th
all other filming
Week 11 Monday 26th
voice over week
Week 12 Monday 2nd April
film edit /any extra filming
Filming Complete April-Edit
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Sequence of Events
Initial opening sequences sets the expectations of what we will percieve from the tribe.
The Tribe: Unamed as of yet
Location: Bristol, England
Socially:
The tribe has evolved over the years with members coming and going throughout their time at university. The tribe has envolved a chief through someone who is a natural leader and a shaman who is proficeintly knowledged in the rituals of student life and remedies to cure hangovers and the like.
Social interests other then a meagre amount of work at university include football computer games, generally socialising and drinking.
The tribe is settled but frequently indulges in hunter gatherering to suppliment their lack of funds.
Demographics:
A history:
The tribe has been formed for longer then anyone can remember and is quite A major incident happened many years before (unspecified how long before) which was the student protests which happened which affected their way of life.None of the students are passionate about politics (reflecting our social group in real life) but it never the less had a profound effect on their tribe. This shall be discussed in a scene.
Walking to the tribe.
As a convention of Bruce Parry's travels we see shots of him his crew and porters walking through the expanse to get through to the village, many of the scenes locations. I have shot photos of in the previous page.
We have establishing shots of teh area as in the program (see location shooting), depicting the solitude of the area (which is far from what the place actually is).
Shots of feet walking through undergrowth
Low angle shots of the film crew walking through the expanse again, another tribe convention.
Meeting Chris the tribe memeber who act as the translator. This will break down the langauge barrier presented by the tribe.
The crew will be seen walking down the stairs to the main part of the village ( courtyard at the back of our houses) . We see members of the tribe approaching curiously.
Walk in to chieftans house
Narrative to over these shots (drawing from what i have talked about above and wording Bruce's intro to fit the scene.
Meeting the chieftan
Walk into house (low angle medium)
Shots of chattering villagers
Low angle shot of Adam the chieftan-who wears some distinctive clothing to mark him seperately
Dialogue adapted from the introduction of tribe
Low angle shots throughout interview alternating between Finian and Adam and the crowd that has gathered.
Finian: "My aim is not to be treated by you guys as a tourist but to be a memeber of the community so if there is work to do i'd like you to make me work as a memeber of the community.
And finally so i can understand a little bit about how you see the world i am especially interested in the ritualistic side of your life and if i ask many questions i hope that is okay"
Adam: "If you want to know about our rituals and way of life then you are welcome to stay with us and engage in our rituals, and we will teach you our ways"
Exchange of gifts, Finian presents beer and tobacco, which the chieftan stands up too and drinks
Adam presents trainers and a hoody (UWE??)
Initial tastes of tribe life
After meeting Finian is shown where he is staying by his adopted family-a sofa and a sleeping bag.Mis-en-scene is a grotty student living room
Reflection on the day improvised but talking about expectations and feelings about the day. MCU
Next day awakenedby Chris who offers him tiast and explains that they will look for supplies and food for the next few days.
Food Hunt-structure to be improvised
F: One of the main problems your people encounters is a lack of finance, and with little income you are quite reliable on your resourcefulness and skills in gaining nutrition.
CW: This is true everyday is a struggle to keep some kind of sustance for the tribe, its hard as i see otehr people eating gourmet meals whilst we scrounge together food for a pot noodle.
F: Well i shall eat and gather with the rest of you i will try and work as hard as i can so we can eat as well as possible
CW: Easier said then done mate! Today is a day we will gather food, of course we wish to eat well but we can only tell on the day whether the fruits of our gatehring will be plentiful or not
FV: When it comes down to nutrition do you find it affects your health in anyway?
ATYes poor nutrition lowers our immune system considerably. We always suffer from freshers flu which can have devastating effects on our community. If one person falls ill then the whole house will suffer as a result so we rely on the shaman to guide us to good health.
L.S Walking off with tribe to gather food. Shots of scavenging on ground. Narrative over this.
"The first means of substance is to search the grounds for anything that may be of value, richer tribes of students discard their money which holds lesser worth so on a good run the search may yield enough to buy supplies for the whole village."
Whilst working shots L.S and C.U of work
F: When is the best time to do this work, i meanheir must be only so much money dropped
CW: Usually as saturday morning, we find students drinking the night before are frequently careless with their money which is a great assest to our search.
Reflects to camera about the back breaking work that the job is whilst working.
At the end of the day i've only found 67 pence enough to feed two of the tribe members.
CW: gathers gatherers counting and poolong in their finds mumbling and c.u of concerned faces
"Today we have amounted £15.89 nice effort team"
Shot of the two walking back
F: "So a fair amount to gain today"
CW: Yes today was made a consdierable success by the finding of a 5er on the floor, which is a rareity. One finds those with money are careless especailly under the influence of alcohol.
FV: Your community receives a tri annual income of student loan, what happens to this money?"
CW: Well most of it goes onto keeping the land we live on, we have to appease those who actually own the land first of all these landlords take almost everything. The rest, well its depends one usually finds that the women spend their money on a shopping trip and the men of thr tribe have spent their money on the women.
FV: To camera. I really feel helpless in this situationtowards helping their plight, it seems that these landslords leech as much money as they can to let these students live on the plot of land they do with little support in keeping the hosuing up to date, so this obviously has a backlash in how the tribe provides for itself"
Voice over or CW: Last but not least the food cafeterias here chuck out alot of food so we will find what we can in the bins"
Bins being opened.Rumaging through bins finds some chicken? Immediately passed around the members
CW: "We as the gatherers get first pic, but we bring back enough for the rest"
Finian eats some chicken looks in disgust to the camera
FV "This is well out of date, do you not get constantly ill"?
"We are used to it, and our shaman will help us when we are ill. Bad food builds charecter"
Narrative: As for gathering food we have enough to buy supplies for the tribe for a few days now. Chris will now distribute what has been gained fairly. I will be eating with him tonight.
Preperation of pot noodle.
CW: "Tommorrow i will be taking you to meet our shaman he deals with many aspects of our life and is an intergral part of life."
FV: Reflection to camera In bed the pot noodle was not really to my tastes to be honest, and a month on such a diet i am sure will take its toll on me. I am feeling quite envious of my crew eating good food in their camp at the moment.
The Tribe: Unamed as of yet
Location: Bristol, England
Socially:
The tribe has evolved over the years with members coming and going throughout their time at university. The tribe has envolved a chief through someone who is a natural leader and a shaman who is proficeintly knowledged in the rituals of student life and remedies to cure hangovers and the like.
Social interests other then a meagre amount of work at university include football computer games, generally socialising and drinking.
The tribe is settled but frequently indulges in hunter gatherering to suppliment their lack of funds.
Demographics:
A history:
The tribe has been formed for longer then anyone can remember and is quite A major incident happened many years before (unspecified how long before) which was the student protests which happened which affected their way of life.None of the students are passionate about politics (reflecting our social group in real life) but it never the less had a profound effect on their tribe. This shall be discussed in a scene.
Walking to the tribe.
As a convention of Bruce Parry's travels we see shots of him his crew and porters walking through the expanse to get through to the village, many of the scenes locations. I have shot photos of in the previous page.
We have establishing shots of teh area as in the program (see location shooting), depicting the solitude of the area (which is far from what the place actually is).
Shots of feet walking through undergrowth
Low angle shots of the film crew walking through the expanse again, another tribe convention.
Meeting Chris the tribe memeber who act as the translator. This will break down the langauge barrier presented by the tribe.
The crew will be seen walking down the stairs to the main part of the village ( courtyard at the back of our houses) . We see members of the tribe approaching curiously.
Walk in to chieftans house
Narrative to over these shots (drawing from what i have talked about above and wording Bruce's intro to fit the scene.
Meeting the chieftan
Walk into house (low angle medium)
Shots of chattering villagers
Low angle shot of Adam the chieftan-who wears some distinctive clothing to mark him seperately
Dialogue adapted from the introduction of tribe
Low angle shots throughout interview alternating between Finian and Adam and the crowd that has gathered.
Finian: "My aim is not to be treated by you guys as a tourist but to be a memeber of the community so if there is work to do i'd like you to make me work as a memeber of the community.
And finally so i can understand a little bit about how you see the world i am especially interested in the ritualistic side of your life and if i ask many questions i hope that is okay"
Adam: "If you want to know about our rituals and way of life then you are welcome to stay with us and engage in our rituals, and we will teach you our ways"
Exchange of gifts, Finian presents beer and tobacco, which the chieftan stands up too and drinks
Adam presents trainers and a hoody (UWE??)
Initial tastes of tribe life
After meeting Finian is shown where he is staying by his adopted family-a sofa and a sleeping bag.Mis-en-scene is a grotty student living room
Reflection on the day improvised but talking about expectations and feelings about the day. MCU
Next day awakenedby Chris who offers him tiast and explains that they will look for supplies and food for the next few days.
Food Hunt-structure to be improvised
F: One of the main problems your people encounters is a lack of finance, and with little income you are quite reliable on your resourcefulness and skills in gaining nutrition.
CW: This is true everyday is a struggle to keep some kind of sustance for the tribe, its hard as i see otehr people eating gourmet meals whilst we scrounge together food for a pot noodle.
F: Well i shall eat and gather with the rest of you i will try and work as hard as i can so we can eat as well as possible
CW: Easier said then done mate! Today is a day we will gather food, of course we wish to eat well but we can only tell on the day whether the fruits of our gatehring will be plentiful or not
FV: When it comes down to nutrition do you find it affects your health in anyway?
ATYes poor nutrition lowers our immune system considerably. We always suffer from freshers flu which can have devastating effects on our community. If one person falls ill then the whole house will suffer as a result so we rely on the shaman to guide us to good health.
L.S Walking off with tribe to gather food. Shots of scavenging on ground. Narrative over this.
"The first means of substance is to search the grounds for anything that may be of value, richer tribes of students discard their money which holds lesser worth so on a good run the search may yield enough to buy supplies for the whole village."
Whilst working shots L.S and C.U of work
F: When is the best time to do this work, i meanheir must be only so much money dropped
CW: Usually as saturday morning, we find students drinking the night before are frequently careless with their money which is a great assest to our search.
Reflects to camera about the back breaking work that the job is whilst working.
At the end of the day i've only found 67 pence enough to feed two of the tribe members.
CW: gathers gatherers counting and poolong in their finds mumbling and c.u of concerned faces
"Today we have amounted £15.89 nice effort team"
Shot of the two walking back
F: "So a fair amount to gain today"
CW: Yes today was made a consdierable success by the finding of a 5er on the floor, which is a rareity. One finds those with money are careless especailly under the influence of alcohol.
FV: Your community receives a tri annual income of student loan, what happens to this money?"
CW: Well most of it goes onto keeping the land we live on, we have to appease those who actually own the land first of all these landlords take almost everything. The rest, well its depends one usually finds that the women spend their money on a shopping trip and the men of thr tribe have spent their money on the women.
FV: To camera. I really feel helpless in this situationtowards helping their plight, it seems that these landslords leech as much money as they can to let these students live on the plot of land they do with little support in keeping the hosuing up to date, so this obviously has a backlash in how the tribe provides for itself"
Voice over or CW: Last but not least the food cafeterias here chuck out alot of food so we will find what we can in the bins"
Bins being opened.Rumaging through bins finds some chicken? Immediately passed around the members
CW: "We as the gatherers get first pic, but we bring back enough for the rest"
Finian eats some chicken looks in disgust to the camera
FV "This is well out of date, do you not get constantly ill"?
"We are used to it, and our shaman will help us when we are ill. Bad food builds charecter"
Narrative: As for gathering food we have enough to buy supplies for the tribe for a few days now. Chris will now distribute what has been gained fairly. I will be eating with him tonight.
Preperation of pot noodle.
CW: "Tommorrow i will be taking you to meet our shaman he deals with many aspects of our life and is an intergral part of life."
FV: Reflection to camera In bed the pot noodle was not really to my tastes to be honest, and a month on such a diet i am sure will take its toll on me. I am feeling quite envious of my crew eating good food in their camp at the moment.
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