In our first group exercise; myself, Moe, Jacki, and Salman edited and re-aranged a documentary about the Glastonbury festival. The footage was comparing the 1970's festival with modern footage and interviews discussing the "vibes" of the festival and a brief history of its origins with founder Micheal Eavis.
This exercise is helping me and my team get to know each other and helping us to establish our roles for the rest of the term. Moe will be our director, Salman will be on camera, Jacki will be our editor, and I will be on sound.
In our version of the edited footage, we have used rhythmic editing alongside the music from the original film and have focused on the "good vibrations" extract of one of the archive footage interviews. We have chosen to portray; even though the festival has drastically changed though size, entry fee and types of festival goers (early glasto was mostly entered by 'hippys' now it is more of a pop culture mainstream event) it still has the "good vibes" and happy- loving atmosphere it always possessed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u0lhxYFjUI
This short documentary discusses the psychology behind weather, mood, and briefly on mental health. In my written journal i am discussing my thoughts and ideas through poetic documentary mode how documenting a everyday peoples stories about how such a simple and uncontrollable factor such as weather can effect so much in our lives. This connects the 'non' human natural phenomenon of weather with human lives, emotions and feelings.
In Nichols reading he's discusses how poetic mode uses "subjective impressions" to create narrative. In my work i want to emotionally engage the viewer.
In our First film class with Yorgos, we watched an extract from Alain Resnais "Night and Fog" 1955. This poetic documentary depicts visual and literal metaphors of the holocaust through the shots of the rubble and destruction left after WW2. Through the narration and the empathic tone of the speech the audience is encouraged to think freely about the suffering he is speaking of. This is poetic- comparing with a film like the 1937 film "The Spanish Earth" about the spanish civil war; this expository documentary uses the 'voice of god' to tell the viewer what to think. Rather than allowing them to think for them selves.
