Cut away opening scene filming shots and DVD cover

Cut away opening scene filming shots 

and 

DVD cover

The use of bokeh shots in the beginning of the film creates ambiguity and sets the scene for world of online dating. Relates to the beginning of Dom's interview where he discusses that within Grindr he always tells the truth- maybe others do not.

Cut aways of movement- symbolise that within technology everything is always moving and changing, similarly to people- always moving, changing, meeting new people. Online dating is always changing people joining leave etc. 

Shots of far away strangers adds to the ambitious tone of the opening sequence.

Groups of men present the theme of "homosexuality"

This shot is key within the film. A man holding a smart phone. The viewer can not see what the participant is doing/writing etc. This further adds to the mood of ambiguity. Overall what we what to create within the beginning is a tone of the almost futuristic dating world. In these scene, everyone is a stranger. 

Editing Week 8

Early Films

Lumiere Brothers 

First film- 'Workers Leaving the Factory' 1895 - 120 years old (Very short, static camera, one take, everything moves in front of the camera, silent)

George Melies- Discovered the first jump cut by mistake- Introduced editing techniques, fades, overlapping, dissolves, stop motion animation etc. Trip to the Moon 1902 (Films very theatrical)

Edwin S. Porter: the life of an american fireman (1903)

DW Griffith Father of film editing continuity editing. Intolerance (1916) cross cutting, inter titles, tempo created by editing- screened all over the soviet union- griffith films were stymied there. editing is a tool to guide your viewer

Sergei Eisenstin- theory of montage

Documentary Editing

Walter Murch on editing

Reflective Mode: Derrida Week 7

Directors: Kirby Dick, Amy Zierin- Film-makers are expects on Derrida

"Everything is false... i'm not really like this..." - usually wears his robe and will not get dressed all day, in the film he is dressed in a shirt and smart trousers.

"This is what you call Cinéma vérité" - Meta-cinematic scenes

Asking audience...
"Is it that I am both part of the spectacle and audience"

"Eyes and Hands" = Signs

Not interviews/ No talking heads
Talking to film makers
Flows like a conversation
Constantly plays with his theories and life

Derrida watches film back with film maker, talks to film makers about love and asks filmmakers questions. 

• Chanan- "playful documentray" he is aware of the processes- playing with the film maker- interacts with the film-maker
• DECONSTRUCTION- limits of biographical film-making. According to Derrida nothing is natural everything is constructed 

B. Nichols "Process of negotiation between film-makers and viewer become the focus of attention"..."draws attention to our assumptions and expectations about documentary form itself" (EG. Derrida asks documentarian questions)- Structural critique of documentary itself. A reconstruction of truth not the truth/ a construct of representation.