Category Archives: TV2

After re-structuring the film, ending with the revisiting of the opening scene of Karl playing a range of Characters taking about himself – but this time in colour and with no dialog, the film now ends on an extremely high … Continue reading →

The sound recording and design for our documentary is the most important element by far. I believe that you can get away with bad visuals (poorly framed, grainy, low light), but audiences are not forgiving of bad sound at all, … Continue reading →

While we had compiled a couple of nicely edited short scenes within the documentary; the playful opening, talking about love of acting and the stroke scene, each scene didn’t lead on to the next in a manner that made scene, … Continue reading →

The close up, how I love the close ups. Why are so many people afraid to get right in there for a closeup, to cut off the top of the head, to frame the subject right between the forehead and … Continue reading →

In this lecture, Liam spoke about the importance of sound in a documentary film, or any film for that matter. Being a musician and having an interest in the recording process, I often pay close attention to the sound design … Continue reading →

On Thursday we had our interviews with karl. Overall the day was a success, but in True Documentary style, it definitely didn’t go to plan, but that’s what kept things exciting…. We started off the day by shooting some B … Continue reading →

In the documentary, as well as the introduction and any observational footage taken of Karl attending film shoots and auditions, the interviews will take place at Karl’s home In Langwarren. Here, there will be three main locations within Karl’s house … Continue reading →

After an extremely successful day of shooting for the opening sequence of our documentary, I loaded up the footage in VLC the next day to check out the rushes and just about had myself a heart attack when I heard … Continue reading →

Today we had the filming for the opening sequence of our documentary titled ‘Karl’. As Karl is an actor, we decided to create a performative introduction that celebrated his love of acting and which would work to get the viewers … Continue reading →

I recently watched a five minute excerpt from The Errol Morris film Mr. Death (2004). I had watched a number of films by Morris before viewing this film and have found each one of them to be quite outstanding. Morris … Continue reading →