Behind the scenes footage of 1917
Wow! I was blown away by 1917 (2019) purely as a film. But now I have seen a lot of the behind the scenes footage as to how they got many of those amazing shots, and the major part that camera movement played in it, the filmmaker in me is getting even more excited about the amazing technical ways that they used camera movement to make me, the audience, totally invest in this film.
Although I had received the Blu-ray over a week ago, on Monday 18th May, I had deliberately avoided watching any of the behind the scenes footage either from the Blu-ray or online, because I wanted to experience the film spoiler-free. In addition to this, I had decided to wait until I had time to watch the whole film all the way through in one go, without any pauses.
I feel both of these were good decisions, because I was able to experience the film totally as the director intended. I had done the same thing when I watched Rocketman. I used to like spoilers, but I think that now that I am getting so into filmmaking, and particularly wanting to eventually become a director via a cinematography route, I am very much wanting to see films the way that the director designed them to be watched, i.e. with no spoilers. I find I am thinking that if the director, cinematographer and editor have put the amount of effort that I now know goes into a film, into shooting and editing their film a certain way, then the least that I can do is watch it the first time the way they designed it. THEN afterwards I want to see as much behind the scenes footage as I can and go back and watch it again and marvel at the technical side of it. But I'm particularly glad that I watched 1917 (2019) without any spoilers first, due to the amazing "one continuous shot" nature and the incredible camera movements that made that possible.
Harvard Referencing
I've been spending some time this week trying to put more of the things that I have looked at ready to go into my Bibliography. I'm getting the hang a bit more of Harvard Referencing, but it does take a lot of time. I had experimented with the "citethisforme" website, but from my experiments you still have to find all the information and enter it, it helps by arranging it all in the right order with brackets etc. But I was finding that quite often what takes the time is that the information isn’t immediately obvious. For example, with films, "Place of distribution" and "Distribution Company" can be tricky since there are often several different options, in several different countries.
To try to work out what to do here, I re-read the intro to the Harvard Referencing Document that we were given. From re-reading this, it seems that the main point of Harvard Referencing is to make is as simple as possible for someone else to find the item that you are referencing, and to be sure that they have found the same item. This helped me to make the decision that where I had several different "answers" for a piece of information, e.g. "Distribution Company", I will use the one that is most well-known, because I think that that will help someone else to find the item most easily.
An example of this is for the film 1917. There are 3 distribution companies listed:
1. Entertainment One (United Kingdom)
2. Universal Pictures (United States)
3. Alibaba Pictures (China)
I decided that the one that would be most helpful is Universal Pictures, so I went with that one. It seems like a logical solution to the problem.
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