The film was interesting and unique in its own way. It almost seem like the camera who so happen to also be the director of the film was enjoying himself, asking nontradtional questions such as “are there any gay penguins and such.” The film was shot using a handheld camera most of the time and the shots were composed of full body shots, and medium shots and sometimes close ups. The scernery shots unless tracking a diver or a person were shot still and panned from left to right and zoomed in on some significant parts such as the suicidal penguin. During the still panning shots there was either a narrative by the director/cameraman or classical choir music which is very cliche yet makes a very strong point when showing the beauty of the antartic. Interviews were interesting and this relates relatively well with our project in the sense that all these people came together from whatever they were and were specialized with and became ordinary citizens doing menial tasks to help them survive. Overall, I enjoyed the film and hope to incorportate some of the techniques that the director used in his film as in fill in with music and narrative and panning shots as such. Also if possibly I would like to add a slight comedic value to our film to keep it interesting like his did.

The basics that will be used is assigning roles to each person. This is a group of three project and we have a limited amount of time. It would be ideal to separate each job or task such as director, scriptwriter, interviewer, voice overs and editors to people with those particular strong points. I must talk with my group to see what people’s particular strong points are. Some film/cinematography effects that I hope we will be using are still shots with panning, most like close ups of people while we interview but also tracking possibly. My group and I decided to do street performers. We passed the idea by Amy and she said that we should narrow down our idea to one particular street performer type because of the fact that they are such a broad range of people and because of the fact that the particular film in question is about 5-7 minutes in length. Also I hope to do narrative with the pan shots as well and full body shots of the actual performance. Interview voice overs as well and possibly some secret audio clips obtained through the boompole. Some fade in and fade outs, and slow motion photography, and the crowds interviews and reactions but most of that can be done during the actual editing process. Not really sure what direction my group and I want to take this but I hope to have a scene layout and or shot list as well as a general idea of what we want to portray with a specific street performer group. We shall talk more tmw….