In college we watched the video of Charlton Heston interviewing Michael Moore. This interview was intense. In this interview Heston didn't give Michael Moore anytime to talk or explain his answers in detail because he kept interrupting Moore while he was trying to explain. When Heston first goes to talk, he doesn't tell the truth about who he is therefore he is able to get inside and have an interview the way he does this is by getting on the side of the interviewee before the interview has ever started. In this interview Heston makes out Moore to be even worse than he is, the reason for this is because he doesn't want people to sympathise with Moore, just to make sure that people know that Moore is in the wrong. This is because if Moore says something wrong then Heston will jump onto it and integrate as to why he thinks it. In this interview it is obvious that the filmmaker holds the power this is because of the way he is asking the questions and how they are being answered.
However it isn't completely in the power of the filmmaker, this is because the interview is in the home of the interviewee therefore he can't be under that much pressure because he is in his home comfort. If it were in an unknown room to him then it would be completely in the power of the filmmaker. Finally in the last part of this interview, Heston plays the guilt trip, the way in which he does this is playing the guilt trip of showing a picture of the little girl who was killed whoever Moore doesn't emphasise at all therefore showing him in a bad light.
Do you think Science?
In this video space physicists are questioned whether 'Do you think Science can understand everything?' In this video the space physicists are very confused in what to answer. They are stuck on what to answer and contemplate on what they are going to say for a few seconds before they even say anything. the reason for this is because Science is what they believe in and by questioning it, it shows that they don't actually know everything about their subject although they'd liked to. Although after a while quite a few of them say no, only one of them says it straight away because this shows just how little people know about Science. Each of them respond by saying 'woah that's a good question' & 'that's a very guarded question.' The reason for this is because they are stuck for an answer.
There attitude toward this question is very guarded and they close off, they also start answering questions like 'What is art?' and 'What is everything?' This just shows how much the question has puzzled them. This was an attempt to find a meaning behind the question, however what they do find out is the people's own opinion of faith and the limitations of science. The reason for this is because it is such an open question and their are a lot of answers to it.
Our Project
In our project I worked with my colleagues; Jade Popham, Katie Patrick & Olivia Searle. The question that we asked people was
'What would you do if you were given a book a book of your life from beginning to end?'
We had little to know planning as we didn't have long to film it but I think that it worked out well with the amount of time that we had. Although we did have to get people to sign a consent to show that they were fine with being in the video. We started it by hiring a Canon 600D, a tripod and a Canon Mic. It was important that we had a Canon mic, the reason for this was because voices were being used while filming therefore they needed to clear.
Our consent form
Our question did get a little confusing because people didn't fully understand the concept of the question. Some of them didn't realise that we meant from the start of their lives to the end. Therefore the interview had to repeat the question a couple of times until they understood, this didn't work as well because it was meant to show their initial reaction which we didn't always capture when we were asking them a few times. Although this wasn't the case with all of them as a lot of them understood the concept of the question.
This was a lot of fun to film as by going around and finding out people's opinions of it was interesting. Although people weren't a willing to answer the question are we thought they would be, I think this is because there were a lot of us going around and asking questions. The people that we did ask were stuck on what to say as it isn't exactly a question that you would get asked everyday. A few people that they wouldn't read it because they wouldn't want to know how they died or what was going to happen in the future. Although some of them said that they would hope that if was interesting so that they could make more from it. In total we asked 14 different people, these people ranged from students, to lectures and just people walking around the college. I think that it was important that we asked a different range of people.
When it came to the edit, it was pretty difficult. The reason for this was because I wanted to make sure that I split each of the question in half so we go them stuttering at the start because they were;t sure what to answer and to get another clip of them answering what they thought. I think that this worked out really well and i'm proud of the outcome. The song that I used for it was a backing track from 'The 1975'. The reason for using a backing track was so that it wasn't too loud or distracting from the voices.
I think that in the end the project was a great success, although there are things that could have been changed, such as the way we worded the question to make it easier for people to understand. However I do still stand by our question because I think that it was a very good one and something interesting that people aren't going to answer everyday.
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