In what ways does your short film use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media

products?

By Valerija Kamolina

narrative

• Every story has a beginning middle and end.

• Documentaries are about a specific subject and mine is Lithuanians

• My beginning uses the same technuqies of a vox pop like Natalie Crow did in her short film

With my vox pop I challenged because I showed the questions I asked them

These are Natalie’s vox pop’s where she started of with them straight away so the audience had to think about what the people where answering

Middle

The two at the top are from my film where I inserted establishing shots of recognisable places of London and Lithuania. Below ate Natalie Crow’s insert of magicians performing. I challenged the idea of have all of my short inserts together unlike Natalie’s where she had hers spaced out through the whole film.

EndingWe both end off with our selves summing up the whole film where we referrer to what the audience should of learnt. I also used a twist at the end where we both reveal on how the subject matter was personal to us. I challenged the ending because I have a longer time until I reveal why I chose to make a film about Lithuanians where she does magic and then the camera cuts the side of her to show it was really her that was performing.

character • My main Character was me, the narrator

the person who took the audience on a journey of introducing Lithuanian people and their culture.

In Behind the Smoke and Mirrors she also takes the audience on a journey about magic

We both used people who are more informed about the subject we where documenting, however mine wasn’t as formal because I didn’t have it in the same setting but at the people’s homes where they felt comfortable.

Landscape

This short extract form the film “Duel” by Steven Spielberg catch my eyes, so decided to develop the idea of showing large country side and not too much movement so there wasn’t to much confusion, however I challenged this by zooming into certain areas of landscape in my short film for specific detail.

These are just some of my landscapes where I use zoom techniques to get closer on some and other speeded up to show how busy a certain area is and others just a pan for the audience to have a sense of what is round that area.

Thanks