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“Encounters” Response

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.

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