Production Journal

Last week we start with filming. We met on the Monday 22nd and the Tuesday 23rd August in Ramiro's house and we really work.
We went to the street and filmed specific shots, various interviews, etc.. The filming continued irregularly till Saturday 27th, when I film my known cop.
Although the problems that usually happen, occur (like for example a video was magically deleted), we are progressing.

Production Journal

Basically, in the week during the Monday 8/8 and the Friday 12/7, our organized work consisted on that Santos with Ramiro's and mine help (we both did the location list, which is all clear for visiting those places in the future, for making shots or interviews), finished the shot list. However, both lists can be affected and changed due to whatever it happens when filming.

Other information:
- Because of the weather, I couldn’t meet the cop I know. However, I’m going to contact him via-cell phone for interviewing him.
- Ramiro's camera will be ready.
- Also, we have done some researches for robberies videos in www.youtube.com.

Production Journal

- Confronting a problem: Ramiro Villegas's cop's possible disappearance.
- Further solutions: the cop I know? I will try to contact him immediately (on saturday, where I play football soccer with him).
- More points to cover: more through research (still shots, newspaper articles, statistics, etc).

Decision (final one/s) over the locations of shooting

Narrator: should there be a voice-over or talent pushing the documentary forwards? Or just visual artifacts?
Final decision: at least a voice-over, to give a more dynamic and interactive documentary flow.

Other objective: start of shooting (during weekend or day of the week. Especially artistic scenes.

Quentin Tarantino

1) Two distinctive features of his films are that, for example, he makes really very sudden violent scenes, with lots of murders and blood. And also, his movies are humorous, clever, and with the presence of quick dialogues.
2) He learned by being a video clerk (therefore not as a film-school student).
3) Because they claimed that he produced many unnecessary aggressive images, and due to that they only focus on criticize him for a supposed plagiarism.
4) Crime Thriller
5) POV: makes the audience feel as a character. Pulp Fiction image of when Marsellus wakes up after being hit by Butch's car.
Low-angle shot: shows Jules and Vincent (in Pulp Fiction) opening the trunk of the car searching for weapons. The viewer gets curious about what's inside the trunk.
Extreme close-up: focuses the viewer to concentrate in the mouth and what it says. Mia's lips in Pulp Fiction.

6) The 'mirror shot' represents the other face/side, the "double" of the character, by the reflection in the mirror.
Here, an example: Vincent in Pulp Fiction.

7) a) The name given to a shot showing a situation where more than two characters point each other with guns.
b) It was invented by an italian-american film director called Sergio Leone in the movie 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly', a classic from 1966 and one of Tarantino's favorites.
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.

8) c)

Capturing The Friedmans

1) The pre-production activities consist on images like videos or photos/pictures; the research of the people (witnesses), such as the family, the lawyer Peter Pannaro, or the police, and the necessary materials/elements.

2) The reality is showed by the movie footage; the main characters were filmed at their houses or during important moments (example: Jesse in the jury).

3) While, basically, the post-production ones were about interviews which only focused on them.
- Jump cuts and non-diagetic sounds are present
- Court room with sounds over

4) All the lots opinions and points of views in the movie produce a message and ideas to the audience which mean the doubts about what happen, and that still we don't know if they were guilty or not.

Production Journal

New and final pitch by Santos Espina Mairal, Honorio Felipe Oleksuk and Ramiro Villegas

What are we doing?

Our documentary is going to be about the middle class paranoia which has been created due to the crime in the streets of Capital/Quimes (to de decided upon further discussion): is it a real fear? Is it mere fiction? We are going to explore the concerns of the public involved in this situation and try to expose what this dilemma is about for real.

Why are we doing it?

We strongly feel this problematic situation is one which is talked about thoroughly, but from which no one knows much. Also, we think that it is a good idea to inform a wider public about the present situation of insecurity and the panic it creates, although this remains in the silence or in inconclusive claims.

How are we going to do it?

We are going to transmit the atmosphere of fear which is present in this section of society nowadays, in the most realistic-crude way as possible, gathering accessible evidence and concise facts to support our ideas and showing by filming techniques the actual situation we are trying to express.

Ramiro talked to a local cop, he agreed to be interviewed.
There was an advance on the discussion of shots. Probable shooting of people in the street, asking if they feel insecure.
Fade in of a long tracking shot of the fences, shot from a moving car. Momentary superimpositions of still shots of security cameras.

Jump cuts in ‘A Bout de Souffle’ (Godard, 1960) and ‘Eden Lake’ (2008)

By watching the first clip, the use of this specific type of editing can be seen. In this movie, at the opening, approximately 3 of these between the shots at the car are shown.

By looking the second clip, the use of this specific kind of editing can be seen. In this film, at the opening, approximately 4 of these between the ‘tracking’ shot of the car at the motor/high way (from another car, middle POV) are shown.