HELLO ALL, good & sunny morning: allow me to brag my past a little
(just a little, so don't go). In last 20th Century 70's, I lived & worked in the 16mm documentary studio of my friend
(anthropology)Dr. Scott Robinson, excellent camera man with a totally silent Beaulieu & zoom objective. I was in charge of two VW Combis
(one 1959 T1 & one 1974 T2), titles, credits & animations
(frame by frame with a Bolex), sound recording
(with a marvelous NAGRA) and fix-it-all emergencies on the field. Adding my VW 73 Combi shop-on-wheels, we caravaned to the desert with the Huicholes in search of Hikury
(peyote in spanish), went North of México to film the construction of an electricity plant powered by charcoal
(in a country plagued with oil reservoirs ), and many many other etcéteras. Here
(in case you speak spanish) I include the Huichol Documentary:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6RLirAA_uU[/youtube]
There is no such thing as
"reality" in filming: FiRST, the script has to be aproved by the Producer
(who brings the money for the project: he better like the documentary mesage!) and THEN the project is limited by time & resources. The weather is another limiting factor... not allways favorable
Afterwards, the whole thing is mounted in the studio editing table: we had a Steenbeck with two sound tracks & one image track, with a normal TV size screen, keeping all tapes & negative on spools. Before, we had the tipical & traditional upright Moviola
(one sound & one image track) with a magnifying glass to view the negative
(my eyes still hurt!! ). All magnetic tape
(sound) and negative rolls, just lay all over the studio floor. NO SPOOLS until all is sincronized, cut & taped.
Once at the Editing Table, one picks the sounds & scenes that compose the story. There is no random choice or free willy in documentaries, imagine adding traditional Hollywood's lack of imagination. Then we delivered to the Optical Transfer Lab, who do fades, optically mount credits & titles to an image, do color equalizing
(some shots tend to be "bluer" or "reder" than others & affects the observers eyes, gives head akes).
So, I am not surprised by lack of... ¿REALiTY?
(¿really?) in this very interesting movie. I hope the diching is done acording to what happened, the rest... well, I know how Jury people in tryals behave: with VANiTY & ENVY
Will this movie be better than
The Flight (2012)?