Shooting Exersise 2

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For this piece we went to Peace Gardens because we knew that the fountain would make a good subject to film because it has a distinctive sound. We also shot a Coke can because that also has a distinctive sound that people could recognise even when it is not in shot. This piece of work has taught me that you can hear something without it being in shot and it will still make sense and the audience will still know what’s going on. For example we used the sound of a Coke can without it being in shot, but the audience still knew what that going on and what they were hearing. We also did this with the fountain. We shot close up with the Coke can but with sound of the fountain. Even though we couldn’t see the fountain in shot we knew it was nearby because we could hear it.  

Our work is similar to the short film Photograph of Jesus. In the film a narrator is talking about his job and some of the ridiculous requests he gets on a day to day basis. The strangest request someone has asked for was a photograph of Jesus. Our experiment film is similar to this because even though we can’t see where the sound is coming from we still understand. Even though their sound is a narrators voice and our sound is a Coke can and a fountain it is similar on the way the sound is used.

Another short film that is similar to ours is Daybreak Express. This short film shows us various shots throughout a city. It shows us buildings being built and being used. It also shows people going to work and using public transport. This is similar to our work because ours also has shots of people going about their day to day business.

The film Salaryman isn’t similar to ours. In this film a Japanese worker is stuck in his office job and doesn’t have time for anything else in his life. Our film isn’t similar to this because this follows a narrative and our film it just a sequence of shots without any narrative or story.