Re-Edit

Well I got some feedback from the class and it seems like they got the gist from the most part. I decided upon seeing it on a big screen to remove the tacky rhetorical questions overlaid on the video. It seems as if the video should explain what I’m talking about instead of tacky text. Ugh.

I hate being a perfectionist.

Also, grr to lack of communication and procrastinating because I didn’t realize the formatting of exporting the video would take so long! Hopefully it works out okay ^^;

Mandabala

This doc felt like an old James Bond flick. There were so many different players and victims involved that at times it was hard to keep up. I feel like I would have to watch it again and perhaps learn more bout the socio-economics and history of Brazil in order to appreciate it more.

However, it did a great job of conveying how dangerous Brazil was and how beautiful it was at the same time.

The director was obviously trying to make it more narrative movie or James Bond-esque because one of his interviewees reacted to one of the questions as such. He succeeded with the film stock, sweeping shots of Brazil and interesting conflicts of government officials and the people.

Editing my new Doc

I’m finally editing my new doc and I’m having a lot of fun with it. It’s hard parting with some of these shots. I want to make it longer than 10 min but I don’t want it to be an hour long thing. That’s obviously not going to work. I wish I had more people’s advice on how to initially expose my family to the audience. I want everyone to take something different from it and hopefully my vague way of editing it will work.

I wonder if name titles are important?