Sound & Motion class 8

Voice

Power of moving images – show, don’t tell

Who is speaking and why

• External commentator (voice of god)

+Someone who reads a script? (Sherman’s March opening)

+Direct address (Sherman’s March 58:00)

               +an expert on the subject

• Participant/subject from within the piece

• The maker/author (FrankFilm)

• Internal thoughts (Thin Red Line)

• actually spoken words (if so, by whom) (And This is Free)

• Imagined words of someone else (election)

How are they identified

• Do we see them? How soon? (Louis Malle - le Chagrin et la Pitie)

• And this is free – bit of opening and 9:11 – 13:22 – who is speaking?

• Lower third?

• A particular individual, or a member of a group

(the VN war memorial – the wall listing of names or the sculpture representing the idealized soldier?)

Where in the piece are they located

*Up front?

Style

• Reading something that is written?

• Conversational?

Tone

• Ironic (Sadie Benning #2, part 2 Judy Hates Her Job 9:11)

Structure

• Road trip

Sherman’s march – path of Gen’l Sherman, path of filmmaker Intertwined

• Individual story interleaved with history, commentary and context (Delerium)

Interviews

How to get people to talk

• Come prepared

know what you want to find out develop sample questions

• Listen

unexpected things will emerge - so go with them, don't stick to a script

Interviewing the interviewers on interviewing on Classfolders

Resources

Letters from soldiers:

PBS [[1]]

Michael Moore.com [[2]]

You tube videos [[3]]

Advice on interviewing:

from videomaker site [[4]]

on "voice" and interviewing: [[5]]