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Week 2- habitus, duality and beyond
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-essential reading= “Chapter Two: The Body as Symbol” In The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction by Fiona Bowie (2000)
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- Sociology is a martial art (La sociologie est un sport de combat) - Pierre Bourdieu
“all of this is capital; these are scarce resources, unequally distributed. And those that have more of it, because of this unequal distribution, reap the profits attached to scarcity. If everyone had the same amount...there would be no advanatge to it.”
”the reproduction of inequalities is achieved more and more through the transmission of cultural capital.”
(is inequality necessary) ”it’s a topic of discussion but i dont think we can answer it..... because it’s complicated and because i cant answer it..... it’s a political question, not necessarily a scientific one.”
”when someone says something in a debate, just ask yourself, what are his social reasons for saying that? If a priest tell syou there is no salvation outside of religion, well yes! his job depends on it!”
- Introduction to Bourdieu: Habitus (by Then and Now)
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401 introductiom
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Stuck in Nowhere- Evaluation
Overall it sucks and i hate it! Thank you for coming to my evaluation.
No but in all seriousness I really, REALLY don't like it and it sucks because I wanted it to be Good and I tried really hard to make it Good and it came out so hodge podge and half assed and the audio was still barely listenable. It just sucks because I genuinely tried really hard with the sound design for everything else and I tried really hard with the glitching and the editing to make it work but everything went so wrong it was really difficult to make it okay. Plus honestly having to watch myself on the screen and edit myself and watch myself in the cinema twice (thanks for making me do that) really just wasn’t it, and I'm not even saying it in a jokey way I genuinely don't think i could handle doing a film again if I was that bad at acting again.
If I were to do it again, really all id do is mot trust the other two to come through, which sucks because it’s there jobs but again, I think kit isn't cut out for being in charge and organising or resourcing and that’s okay but not when she's in charge of those things. In hindsight I would've probably have taken over earlier and found an actor and sorted the equipment earlier and actually gotten involved when things went wrong and fixed them rather than let them get on with it. As far as writing goes,  i probably would either write a different script or shorten this one as it ran over by so much and as an editor I really wouldn't have done much else considering what I did was all I could do in my eyes other than starting editing sooner so i came across the sound issue earlier. As a sound designer I would've actually taken control of the zoom and fixed it outright rather than let them bicker and then only half fix it and I would've probably checked the audio earlier too and talked to rusty about it and gotten his opinion rather than just relying on me and a bunch of online tutorials.
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Stuck in Nowhere- the making of
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Idea
Someone is in a space station, real clunky, real dirty, you kind of get the idea that it’s not that well made and there’s a lot of groaning and concerning noises. The person, revealed in the first sequence through audio and whatever, is revealed to have been sent to space as part of a study to analyse how humans live and survive in space, a one person tester to see if a space colony is at all viable maybe. Despite intersections of B-roll of life on the spaceship like doing repairs and eating terrible packet food and stuff, generally miserable life but with great lighting because it’s a spaceship you know, the main plot is going to be told through video calls with ‘home’. It’s going to be set through daily video diary entries and radio calls with the station back at home where the spacer will be giving updates on physical and mental health and general condition of the ship, and the person at home will be giving them news from home, giving them updates on how the football league is going, how the election is going, how their partner is etc… and at the end of each call giving them an update of how long they have left till they are at the end of their term. Despite starting off normally, soon you get the sense that something is off as the radio calls start to not happen and the person on the spaceship is getting very worried by this radio silence- when the radio calls happen again ‘home’ operator insists everything is fine but the call quality drops each time and the operator is distracted and the call drops out intermittently and when asked about what’s happening down at home they actively avoid any questions about it. In the end after several panicked radio transmissions we piece together that something (implied to be a civil war or a coup of some form) has taken place and the country has descended into anarchy- the radio operator breaks it to the person in space that home no longer exists, and that they’re stuck in space.
Being low light and in such a cramped space we don’t actually have to build much of a set- i do want to have fun with the lights and the cinematography, I know it’s not my job (I’m back to being a scriptwriter and editor and sound designer) but I want this to be very lighting and sci-fi heavy. I also want all the audio to really paint the picture that they’re on a spaceship, I want as much space sounds as possible, I want gross 80s green chunky space text like Tron, if charlies doing more music I want synths- the whole shebang.
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-room to make into spaceship
-props for spaceship
-helmet/boiler suit
-actor (actual actor this time)
-voice for radio operator
-voice for ships controls??? Maybe?
Writing
As far as writing goes, I originally came up with this idea after hearing about the USSR astronauts that went up as part of the USSR and got stranded after it dissolved.
“Krikalev was stranded on board the Mir during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The country that had sent him into space no longer existed, his return was delayed and he stayed in space for 311 consecutive days, twice as long as the mission had originally called for.”
Obviously this is pretty much the exact situation I’m using in the script, the only difference being our astronaut never makes it home and gets told as much by ‘home’. We did talk about implying the characters and the nation was soviet or Slavic or even post-soviet but I'm not fully a fan of the implications and bias that that gets across- it’s a little on the nose and kinda distasteful, plus like the implications of the story being about an Eastern European country (even a made up one) is just a bit too xenophobic for my liking. So we’ve decided to just keep it as neutral as possible and have as little information about this mysterious failing country and just call it ‘home’- likewise I wanted to keep the character unamed and just referred to as the ships name (’nowhere’) just to keep the characters backstory a minimum and keep them mysterious. I think just being given this very neutral character with very little information makes it easier to put yourself in the shoes of the character and really project onto them, which is what I really want for this film- it's less about how the character reacts and peoples feelings for them and more about how horryfing the concept is, it’s less about the character and more about making the audience feel and react.
The making of
Well. It was something. And by something I mean a nightmare.
To start of with, not to doxx anyone, but Kit spent the whole week saying she was going to find an actor and send out an email and contact actors and talk to some people she knew, and then the Tuesday evening (so a week after she said she’d do all this) she says that she hasn’t contacted ANYONE or even booked a room or equipment (despite me asking her everyday if she’d booked things already) and that we can't film. I then find an actor THAT evening but he can't do Thursday because he's a third year and he has a dissertation in, which is entirely reasonable, and kit and Charlie then let me know for the First time (as I'm telling them I found an actor) that we can't shoot Friday or Wednesday amd can ONLY shoot Thursday, meaning I have to try and find another actor and let down the one who id literally just gotten. Then, on Thursday, I rocked up a little late just because I’d slept through my alarm but they said it was okay as they were running late too and that I didn’t need to be there for the setting up as I’d agreed to be the actor (which in itself was a push I hate acting, I hate being recorded and on screen and I hate having to watch and listen to myself so) I turned up and as it turns out they’d booked the wrong room and we were in a tiny recording suite that looked like a converted cupboard that had a humounglus desk in it and they were both incredibly stressed. I see why, the room was like a third of the size they thought it was going to be, but things didn't get much better when we started putting equipment together and it turns out they didn't have one of the things we needed (a projector) at the ERC and gave us an old one that didn't work, and then all of the batteries were dead. The, as it turns out, the card for the zoom was broken (it just kept coming up saying it was either corrupted or incomparable even though it was the one in there) so we ended up using Kits one from her camera and it seemed to work fine (this is foreshadowing) and then the zoom itself was apparently ‘broken’ and wasn’t picking up the main microphone on the boom and instead just using the built in ones- now I don't want to say I know what was wrong with it, but I definitely was right when I was telling them what was wrong with it, and the fact that both of them ignored me for half an hour whilst trying to fix it (to the point where kit almost started crying) and only then listened to me because they didn’t want to take it back says something (it also says something when they only listened to the first step of what I said to do and when it seemed like it was fixed they decided to not do the other steps that would actually have set it up properly but hey ho the zoom was ‘broken and then fixed’ according to the both of them). I know I sound salty and being overly mean, but both of them were just so not with it and rude to me whilst I was the only one who actually knew what I was doing the entire time so I'm an little scorned. Then throughout the actual production where I was acting I hadn't had any time to learn any lines (on account of agreeing to do the acting the night before) and Charlie (I'm guessing because he was stressed) decided that we only needed one or two takes of each scene which, from both an acting and editing point of view, was incredibly stressful to not be able to practice or have a variety. This mind of attitude went along with mixing up the shots and the scenes as we were working in such a small and cramped space me and Charlie didn’t have the collaboration we had on Hjank and he very had bis say in what would or wouldnt work and whether or not he thought a shot would be worth getting (I.e: Me doing more work in space, reflections of the helmet, etc...). At this point, despite knowing I probably should've stepped in and made my voice heard, I was just kinda tired and over it and I just wanted it to be over and done so I could go back to being in charge and try and work with what we got and what id made during the week kit wasn’t doing her job (i spent that whole week playing around with old TV’s and radio equipment at my parents and what stuff I had laying about my flat and had made a bunch of really cool graphics and some great foley work of a spaceship which I was really excited to use). Then at the end of it all kit ended up taking back all the equipment without getting any of the videos off the card so I had to go and explain to the ERC and luckily they could sort us out.
Editing
Ho boy! I almost went insane!
Basically, after I managed to sort out getting all the footage and audio files, I took a day off on the Friday (you know, like an idiot) so I could rest up, I was struggling really badly with exhaustion that day so I thought hey! Have a short break then get on with it. Come Saturday I started editing and soon I realised that we had well over a 7 minute film (bearing in mind it was meant to be something like 4 minuted max) at which point I start frankenstein-ing left right and centre and I manage to make something and have all I need plot wise and though it was very quickly paced and boring I realised I could just cut out the transition scenes where you gain more backstory and instead have the video call audio over the top instead- yeah it’s sad because you lose a lot of characterisation and it’s more telling the audience than showing but you know problem solved. This took me forever as well because I know realise that having to sit and listen and watch myself over and over and over makes me SUICIDAL and that acting in this film was a terrible decision- now I'm not a bad actor, but the acting in this film was terrible (again, i was told the night before filming I was going to be in it). Now I managed to get over this by just dissasociating and zoning out and focusing on my cool graphics and glitches and sound design (which I did have to pull in after I realised I went a bit too much on the effects afterwards) BUT, this was only the audio from the camera id been editing with. When I went to put the audio from the zoom in I realise, every single file has no wave pattern, which is very odd. I the  realise it’s because the recordings are so, SO quiet it doesn't even visually register on premiere- meaning we pretty much have no actual decent sound. So i spend the next few hours going through lecture notes and YouTube tutorials and trying to salavge what I can and it is NOT Good. I ended up being able to save some of Charlies ADR work and I decided that the camera quality would just have to do for my voice and that seeing as it was a webcam in space the quality wouldn’t be great anyway. So then I end up having to edit for almost twice as long as I thought as now I'm having to salvage audio left right and centre and re-sync Charlie's ADR with what I'm doing in the scene (which doesn't match up at all because kit was the one reading Charlie's lines to me on the day despite Charlie being there) and having to ignore how unfitting his generically Californian accent he decided to do was. In the end I managed to make something watchable but HO BOY did I almost go insane doing it.
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Soviet space art by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, printed in the 1973 postcard set “In the Depths of the Universe.”
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Designs by Ron Cobb for ALIEN (1979).
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You this Incredible SciFi Art
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Hjank- Evaluation
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Overall! I really loved Hjank, it turned out so much better than I thought it would and despite all the stress of editing and how much I thought it wouldn't work it really looks like a really high quality production? I still wish the audio was better and sometimes the music is a bit too lou but you know what its just teething problems, that’s minor stuff to think about and learn from in the future. The fac tthat everyone loved it and found it really funny and the deadpan humour really worked in our favour and I really don't think it would've been as funny or worked as well if we tried to make it a proper comedy with like gags and actual jokes and stuff- like the only joke is that he's a sock puppet goose you know, we’re going for that surreal satire vibe. I think as far as production goes im actually quite grateful for Charlie, I think he did an amazing job with the lighting and cinematography and put up with me being very intense and he also made an amazing song too so you know he really went above and beyond. I think Kit really struggled to get herself into place where she was in charge, she didn’t really,,,,, do much on set- I was directing for the most part and she booked out equipment and did the sound recording which she kinda messed up a little (as the sound designer I should've been doing it but I was busy doing the puppetry) and I was the one who made and sorted out all the props too and it was me and Charlie who made the set up so it really feels like though she was there physically on set she really didn't,, do much. I think she knows this though so I'm looking forward to seeing how film 2 plays out and how that goes.
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Hjank- Making of
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Initially comingnup with Hjank we started by riffing some ideas- Andy had given us a task as a starting point but Charlie and Kit didn't vibe with the task at all and wanted to start compltetly from scratch. After joking around for a while we decided to do a crime drama with a gritty detective and in all honesty I don't know how we came up with the idea of having a goose be the killer, I think Charlie honked at one point and we said we could dress him up as goose and then that evolved to the goose being a killer and ansock puppet because you know, getting a real goose wouldn't work and dressing someone up would be terrifying- this is also how we settled on a sock puppet, we thought that that would be the easiest way to make a goose and it would be the funniest thing to just have a really serious gritty Nordic noir inspired film and just play the goose completely deadpan, like not even acknowledge that he's a goose or a puppet at all and have it as serious as possible. This then posed the issues of what I would write about and how I would make a puppet.
Hjank
Making hjank was at first very difficult, I tried any number of paint and cardboard beak and a whole tube of gorilla glue and went through a fairly large amount of Primark White sports socks but the main success we had was after Jade suggested using food colouring (i hadn't used actual dye as its expensive and there was no guarantee it would've worked with the socks or been the right colour). This the had the issue of consistent colour but I solved that by doing test swatches and then making a bulk batch and I ended up staining most of my bathroom and all of my hands a faint orange for about a week BUT Hjank was born! Albeit he wasn't dry by the day we were shooting but you know my hand was already dyed so you know.
Writing
With writing I did a lot of watching of old noir interview scenes and more modern Nordic noirs and who-done it police shows and wrote out the basic storylines of each and tried to plan out the stereotypical scene between a detective and a criminal- it basically goes “set the scene, establish backstory and relationship, reveal evidence/guilt/admission, reveal of motive (and occasionally revels twist like that he's actually her dad or he's actually got a gun or was just stalling for time or something along those sort of lines)”. Using this template I set about writing out the scene, going step by step writing the bare basic plot and then going back over to add in emotion or edit the interaction or add in a bird related joke and then went back over to add in the different camera angles and editing techniques that I was picturing so that Charlie (cinematographer) could get an idea of what I was going for and Kit (creative producer) could get an idea of what she needed to find props wise and what vibe we were going for.
Needless to say both of them read through half of it and decided it was Good enough so that was fun explaining the plot and directions to them on the day but hey ho!
Shooting
It went really well!
Kit and Charlie turned up  late and seeing as Kit had all the bookings me and Nathan set up as best we could and they brought the equipment from the ERC when they arrived and after sorting out some battery issues and generally hanging out and going through the script I decided to kind of get the ball rolling and actually start setting up so everyone would get the message. After we rushed through a bunch of the opening scenes for the montage and got as much of that done as possible (there was a miscommunication at this point about B roll so I did end up having to shoot a bunch at home and colour match it but eh)
After that we realised how late it was and after taking a short break to get more batteries we went into the bulk  of the filming. For that it all went pretty smoothly, there was some discrepancies between what charlie thought would be best and what I actually wanted and envisioned for the shots but we compromised a lot so we both got what we wanted and actually for the most part, once he understood what I wanted and he’d set the shot up he really liked what I’d imagined. We’d recorded Hjanks voice as well as the Detectives monologue a couple times too we finsihed up pretty on time.
Editing
Editing was incredibly stressful but that’s on me- I decided to knock all of the editing out in one big sitting and and part way through realised that we hadn’t actually gotten any close ups of the actual pinboard by itself. This meant that I had to actually shoot some close ups of the board itself in my room (luckily I hadn’t taken anything off of it which was great) and then try and colour match in Premiere. I did manage to colour match as best I could, it was my first time actually editing colour in videos so I had to play around a lot but I think I got it as close as I reasonably could. I won’t lie, the beginning montage of the detective's monologue literally took me like 5 maybe 6 hours and the rest of the video took me maybe 2 at max? I don’t know why the first half took me so long, I guess it was probably the filming and colour matching? I also had the music to work with that Charlie made which was insanely good compared to what I was expecting which was great to be able to work with but when there’s music to a montage you want it to work rhythm and pace wise so I guess that added to the time? I also spent a long time trying to make the shadowy ‘4 years’ bit better but decided that there was no point and i was going insane but yeah- after that I had to match the audio files to the right clips which was annoying. I’d edited the whole video before matching the audio files which meant I really had no way of finding the right clips right at the start, I just had to see if it synced so I’ll learn from that next time. I also realised that so much of the audio was so loud, like i’d say 70%+ clipped so badly so I had to bring the volume all the way down and it was just a big mess, like trying to even out the levels between nathan speaking and him yelling was so difficult and because it peaked so badly a lot of the audio quality was lost- there was nothing I think I could’ve done to fix it anymore more than I did and it’s not that bad but I notice it and I know it could be better, so it’s just something I’ll have to keep in mind when Kit records sound next time (like I’ll make sure it very rarely peaks at 6 on the zoom rather than consistently peaks at 6 and I’ll be sure to tell that to whoever is recording the sound). After I synced the audio as best I could and fixed the quality and volume as best I could I made the credits and added the music in at the end which went well but then in putting in the background noises of the cars/siren/street outside (that I recorded from my window earlier) I accidentally wiped out the music so had to go back and do that later. With the background noise I used my old film camera’s buttons and mechanisms to make the recorders sounds and just stuck my arm out my window to get the general sounds for the streets and I think it matches well with the vibe and theme. After I added the music back in and just adjusted all the volume for both the detectives lines and also for Hjanks ADR and watched it through a couple times, added and adjusted little bits here and there and then exported to see what the group thought. They all adored it as it was so I didn’t go back and edit anything and just went to bed and slept off my late night editing session instead.
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God what’s that one poem abt homosexuality. Of all definitions of homosexuality I’ve read not one mentions love. That one
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