Documentary. Subject and the research.
Since we have moved on to making a documentary about a magician, we had to split our positions once again. So I became a director.
Directing was something I am aiming to specialise in. And as I ave never directed a documentary before I needed some research. Documentary directors are basically those, who create and ask questions and then narrate them during editing. Even though I had general idea about the personality of our subject, I still didn't really know what exactly he will tell us. So obviously before going straight into the interview I watched some of the documentaries about magicians and interviews with them.
This interview is mostly based on the personality. As Ronn Winter is a popular media person, viewers obviously would more like to know more about him, rather than the idea behind the industry and emotions that the performer may have during the performance. That was helpful in a sort of the way, but not all of the questions are really helpful. But what I liked about this particular interview is the setting. I always liked interviews that are taken in the studio. The only issue that I can see here is a weird lighting...
As I have never been a great fan of magic tricks and performances I also had to watch some more of them. Sasha Crespi - our subject, told us on our first meeting that he is not only a magician but he is also a mentalist. Not only did I watch a lot of different tricks, but also I watched different mentalists and their performances.
After that I kind of got the idea of how our final piece should look like.
Directing was something I am aiming to specialise in. And as I ave never directed a documentary before I needed some research. Documentary directors are basically those, who create and ask questions and then narrate them during editing. Even though I had general idea about the personality of our subject, I still didn't really know what exactly he will tell us. So obviously before going straight into the interview I watched some of the documentaries about magicians and interviews with them.
This interview is mostly based on the personality. As Ronn Winter is a popular media person, viewers obviously would more like to know more about him, rather than the idea behind the industry and emotions that the performer may have during the performance. That was helpful in a sort of the way, but not all of the questions are really helpful. But what I liked about this particular interview is the setting. I always liked interviews that are taken in the studio. The only issue that I can see here is a weird lighting...
A BBC's production. Observing documentary. One of the ways we want to produce our film: walking around, watching Sasha performing and people reacting on his tricks, capturing all the emotions. Although we are not a big production company and we won't be nail absolutely everything... We can try though. (4/12/2015: Interestingly Sasha then said that Derren Brown - man from the clip above - was one of the first influences).
As I have never been a great fan of magic tricks and performances I also had to watch some more of them. Sasha Crespi - our subject, told us on our first meeting that he is not only a magician but he is also a mentalist. Not only did I watch a lot of different tricks, but also I watched different mentalists and their performances.
After that I kind of got the idea of how our final piece should look like.
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