Documentary Pre-Pro

Purpose: to try make the audience feel what true adrenalin really is.

Contacts: We would go to Fort Funston and talk to some of the hang gliders there and possibly document one of them and have them work with us.

Interview questions: Name? Born and raised? How long have you been hang gliding? What do you feel from when you fly through the air? Does this sport have any affect on your family relationships? Injuries from hang gliding? How do you find the strength to jump of a cliff with a wing attached to your back?

General flow: the documentary will start out with some great b-roll of the person hang gliding and then it will move on to the interview as he gets deeper and deeper into the subject, by him telling us how and when he got involved with this perticular subject. The guy that we interview will have to gobeyond the surface and actually tell us the driving force that makes him do these types of dangerous stunts. As the film progresses we want to focus less on the actual hobby of hand gliding and more on how hand gliding is esential to his way of living.

Shot list: - camera mounted on top of the hang glider pointing down – shots flying overhead – landscapes of Fort Funston – focus on little details of the assembly of the hang glider.

Baraka Film Response

The film Baraka had nice shots but it is not the type of movie I would watch on my own time. There was a little amount of dialogue, which is not the type of movies I enjoy to watch. What I did like about the film was the use of coverage and the different locations they shot this movie on. The shots were beautiful which is what kept the audience into the film. It allowed the audience to focus on the locations and shots rather than what is going on in the film. It also allows the audience to take a second and appreciate what we have in nature. I think this film is titled Baraka, meaning breath in Islam, because the shots in the film make the audience take a second and just breathe. I think that this film expresses a critique of the modern world because in a part of the film it shows city life and how busy and fast things are but in the parts in the nature the shots are slowed down to show how people there appreciate the world and what is happening around them. The people of the modern world do not take a second to stop to see what is around them since they are so busy. The message I get from the film is to stop and take a breathe and look around to see what is happening around you. Also the message I get from this film is to appreciate nature and take a second out of your day to notice what you would not notice if you were rushing to do an errand. The absense of voice and text in the film Baraka emphasized to the audience to just notice what is going on around you rather than paying attention to the story line. The absence of dialogue in this film is important because it forces the audience to pay attention to the shots rather than just listening to what the characters are saying. Some possible interpretations of the monk could be that the monk represents purity whereas the cigarette factory represents contamination. The film suggests that religion and spirituality are the way to life. The kind of social statement the film Baraka maked with the people on the refuse heap and the images of the poor is that not all of today's society is equal based on how different people run things. We watched the film Baraka to teach us that a movie can be successful without dialogue and that messages can be conveyed without the characters talking. This film does make me want to travel; it shows all the beautiful nature thatt people would not notice if they do not take time out of their day to slow down and see what is happening around them.