Homework task No. 1
this week’s homework is a 300 word blog post on how Youth Culture is represented in the following 3 documentaries
Screenagers (Delaney Ruston, 2016)
https://thoughtmaybe.com/screenagers/
Captain Zips Video Trip (1981)
or
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-squatparty-1981-online
Tokyo Techno Tribes
https://arts.kanopy.com/video/tokyo-techno-tribes
Do not only describe the documentaries – be sure to make a note of the documentary filmmaking techniques used, use of sound, cinematic style etc.
- For the Screenagers by Delaney Ruston. Showing how much screen time is too much when preteen started begging for a smartphone by interviewing some cases to realize the seriousness of the situation. It is also focuses on more informational parts through narration.
- For the Captain Zips Video Trip (1981), A filmmaker, Captain Zip shows variety styles of punk and how they play and act on the street in London, with just showing with no narrative and no information about it.
- For Tokyo Techno Tribes, by Ray castle films, The most impressive production or means were that the narration was directed with the voice of a robot that was harder and more artificial than human voice, in line with the “Techno” technological era, the subject of the video.
If the first video is for information delivery through interviews and narrations, the second is a video that gives you a sense of the past through free appearance or attempts, and the last video is similar to the first video, but the production is different in line with the theme of the video by showing various angles and various images in various aspect and places as much as possible.
How do these filmmaking techniques frame the difference between the real and the imaginary; fact and fiction (re-presenation in other words!)
- In fact, For the first film, I’m using a smartphone, and I didn’t realize the seriousness of this problem. But this video, considering that it’s too common, but the main elements of this video are focused on the digital age, so I felt that the problem was quite serious.
- For the second film, When I heard the word “punk,” I thought it was a semi-culture of society in my imagination and mostly negative thoughts in my perception by acting outside the framework of basic society. However, the methods of production in the video, or the way to show free expressions, changed the ideas that seemed bad.
- For the Third film, It was thought that we needed to regulate the risks of technology, as there was a scene in the latter half of the techno video that mentioned the problem of whether freedom based on technology was technology differently than imagined
Three different imaging techniques make me feel the difference between the real and the imaginary; fact and fiction by these various way.
How is filmmaking being used to make this point?
- For the First Video, they are not only using narration of information delivery, but also various information-providing experimental information, and examples of risks, etc. Unlike the other two videos, I think they tried to express the seriousness simply to convey information rather than showing various images.
- In Second video, By showing past interviews and actual street images in various ways, it is amazing that other images that cannot be felt in the present.
- For the Last video, it seems to have taught us a lesson by showing the positive and the negative aspects at the beginning and at the end of the video.
Those three filmmaking being used to make this point by used expressions that match the theme of the video.
Homework task No. 2
Over the Winter Holidays explore one Exhibition, Online Exhibition, Documentary or Online Interactive Documentaries and describe your experience in a 300 word blog post. Below are some suggested Interactive Documentaries and digital archives.
High Rise (interactive documentary from NFB Canada
Humans of New York (real life stories from New York and the World)
https://www.humansofnewyork.com/series
MIT Open documentary Lab
https://docubase.mit.edu/project/
BFI Player (archive of British Culture on-screen)
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collections
Thought Maybe (challenging sociopolitical documentaries)
https://thoughtmaybe.com/browse/
Undercurrents (Video Activism)
- Undercurrents (Video Activism)http://www.undercurrents.org/
- 0:47MIT Open documentary Labhttps://docubase.mit.edu/project/
Blade Runner
it is loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work at space colonies.
When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.
Ridley Scott credits Edwards Hopper’s painting Nighthawks and the French science fiction comics magazine Métal Hurlant, to which the artist Jean “Moebius” Giraud contributed, as stylistic mood sources.
He also drew on the landscape of “Hong Kong on a very bad day” and the industrial landscape of his one-time home in northeast England.
The visual style of the movie is influenced by the work of futurist Italian architect Antonio Sant’Elia
Blade Runner has numerous similarities to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis including a built-up urban environment, in which the wealthy literally live above the workers, dominated by a huge building – the Stadtkrone Tower in Metropolis and the Tyrell Building in Blade Runner.
MUSIC
The Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis is a dark melodic combination of classic composition and futuristic synthesizers which mirrors the film-noir retro-future envisioned by Ridley Scott. Vangelis, fresh from his Academy Award-winning score for Chariots of Fire,[81] composed and performed the music on his synthesizers
Along with Vangelis’ compositions and ambient textures, the film’s soundscape also features a track by the Japanese ensemble Nipponia – “Ogi no Mato” or “The Folding Fan as a Target”