No class this week
Production meeting
I met up with Luke once again this week just to deciding exactly what we are going to film next week when we run and get footage for ‘Wraith’. We decided that we would definitely use the fly on the wall technique when filming the cutaways for our making of.
I found out Dan that the head Lighting Technician was a guy called Dominic Lamb (who also happens to be younger than me) and that the camera man is Sam Cronin. Apparently using the word ‘cameraman’ is unprofessional so I have to refer to Sam as the Director of Photography (DoP). Of course I stalked them on facebook after learning their names - just to see what they look like, so that we can start recording cutaways really quickly as soon as we see them fiddling with equipment or doing something interesting.
We also decided to interview the two (and possibly the director) after the running week in a quiet room with possible lighting set-ups.
I am very excited about next week, although still a bit nervous. I’m wondering if the 2nd years will be stuck up or chilled (who knows) I just want to know what it’s like to be on a feature film set – professional or not.
Documentary of the week
Channel 4 ‘Witch Child’ Documentary
This made me angry. Very angry – to the point where I won’t even get into it. I’ll let you watch it yourself. It’s exactly the kind of documentary I hate which causes people in the west to see ‘Africans’ in a bad light.
The ‘doctor’ they got is a joke and how can they have the nerve to say he is an expert in ‘African belief’ when he has not visited every single country in Africa. My family in Ghana is Catholic and go to a Catholic Church every Sunday. Just because he lived in the Congo for a few years, all of a sudden he is an expert on the African continent.
The fact that they are making generalizations about Africa is just ignorant. Something seriously needs to be. Africa is a continent with many countries that have different cultures.
It also looks down and makes generalisations about Christianity.
Can you please watch it in tell me what you think?
Now that I’ve cooled down a bit, technically it is a really good documentary. Sound is good, music is good. Interviews are well set up with good lighting. Also has good use of archive footage.
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