Interview Analysis

Interview Analysis

Hello Perry, I know your interest is EXPO, can you please tell the viewers what EXPO is?

Would you say thats what's good about EXPO, that its got something for everyone?

Have you ever met anyone famous at EXPO?

So would you call yourself an avid film buff? Because obviously your quite with that as your interest.

Yeah, so what is your favorite film?

Would you say he's your favorite director?

Why would you say that? what makes them two stand out?

Yeah so as your into film, would you ever want to go into that as a career?

Have you ever written any material?

I've seen one of your previous films, and i have to say it is very good, and before you went in to writing/making that film did you write it out like how you've written these future films that you have been talking to me about?



What is the best question and why?

Have you ever met anyone famous at EXPO? This is a risky question because this question could of went two ways, really well and he would drop some interesting names within his awnser, or it could just simply go to a 'no' which is not good. But the reason why this is the best question I asked is because he has met alot of famous people at this event and he could freely talk about it for a adequate amount of time.

What was the funniest response? what question prompted it?

So would you call yourself an avid film buff? Because obviously your quite with that as your interest.
This was a funny response from Perry the interviewee, because it is a rather personal question so he has to judge himself and give his opinion on himself, and that is always a thing people love to talk about and can talk alot about.

The worst response? why?

Why would you say that? what makes them two stand out? This question is not to bad but the repsonse wasnt fantastic because it was partly very obvious and hesitant. I say 'very obvious' because the first utterance he made of his awnser was: "Cos' I really like the way they direct... Love and am a massive fan of their films", it wasnt that detailed but after this he em's and ar's for a little bit and then he gives an interesting insite into one of the directors.

The Interview Concluded
In conclusion the interview was very successful, it was successful because all my questions were answered thoroughly, these in-depth answers

Van Susan's Possible Questions

Van Susan’s Possible Questions

When did the band start?

What did you play in the band? And what do you find so interesting about what you play?

What were the bands influences, also who or what influences you to play your style of music?

Can you possibly talk about what (made you split away from the band)?

Are you going to join another band?

Do you play any other instruments other than a bass guitar?

What are you currently doing now?

What was it like to headline at Indigo2?

What was it like touring the UK?

Have you ever played with the Van Susan's outside the UK?

What equipment are you using at the moment?

Did you ever get a good pay for being in the Van Susan's?

Robert Welland

Aardman studios

Aardman Studios

How Do They Create Animations?

Aardman studios are an English national treasure; they specialize in stop motion animation. They have made some vastly successful movies and programs, which include: Wallace and Gromit, Morph, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run, to just name a few.

The animation industry in the UK has a great tradition of Stop Frame, or Stop Motion (may also be known as Puppet, Model or Clay) animation. Studios like Aardman, have made some vastly successful movies and programs, which include: Wallace and Gromit, Morph, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run, to just name a few.

As the most potentially time consuming form of animation, stop motion requires enormous amounts of patience and dedication, Wallace & Gromit in ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’, was made in Aardman’s studios. It is all filmed using stop motion, this technique of filming animation which is very popular, it is a very tedious and time consuming technique, but when its done correctly it gives a great look to the film. And there are a huge variety of tasks and activities that go into making a piece of stop motion animation. This is reflected in the wide range of job roles available.

Job Roles

Animators

Aarman’s animators would have proven high-level experience because of the prestigious Aardman studios. They are always pushing the boundaries of the art form; they have an exceptional sense of various acting and performance styles. The animator’s job is to be an artist, an artist that gives a story through the movement of the characters, and also the movement of the camera and the way the footage has been shot.

Assistant Animators

The film productions demand artists who demonstrate animation, model making and sculpting skills to serve as assistants on feature film projects. Knowledge of photography is also a useful skill to an assistant animator, because they can give help and advice to the animators to get lots of different opinions on they way they film the shot. That’s what an assistant animator would be used for, their advice and knowledge on the way the footage gets filmed.

Storyboard Artists

An Aardman storyboard artist should be able to effectively communicate emotions and feeling through character design, staging and interesting enthusiastic storytelling. A Storyboard artist would be creating storyboards through, character design and rough example model sheets as well as personal sketches, these are the building blocks to convey a story. Traditional skills such as life drawing, sculpture, painting and photography also assist a storyboard artist because all these skills involve using some sort of creative intellect to start with a blank canvas and making a interesting story for a stop motion animation film.

Layout Artists

Layout artists are those who run all the mise-en-scene, this is everything that appears before the camera and its arrangment - composition, sets, probs, actors, costumes, and lighting. A cinematographer’s eye and an understanding of film-making are vastly helpful for this job role; this is because they will be dealing with the visual aspect to film-making. At Aardman studios there is a huge art department for making big background landscapes; they look at architectural designs to make realistic models for the film set.

There are lots of the same puppet armatures used for different scenes within Aardman studios productions, for example: Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-rabbit, for the main villain in the film the Were-Rabbit they built a skeleton like structure and then used lots of different materials on a number of the Were-Rabbit puppets made, in scenes where the character would talk or howl they used flexible and malleable materials to move the mouth. Aardman studios set a high quality level of stop motion animation that’s why there world renowned, but this is only because all of the sectors work hard and in sync with each other, in which creates a successful production. 

Robert Welland

News vs Documentary

 News VS Documentary

News

• Tell you brief explanation
• Give facts and figures
• Switch topics quickly
• Answer only main questions

Documentary

• Always about one topic/subject
• Go into depth with stories and reenactments
• Give facts and figures
• Give different sides to the topic in hand
• Answer lots of different questions not just the main ones
• It is an, ‘Investigation’

Documentaries and News reports are similar in factually presenting structured programs that inform their audience in a specific subject/topic. Nevertheless they are very different in the way they present and structure the program. News reports tend to present the information from the scene of the event, with reporters getting live coverage of the topic-in-hand. There are news reports of past events as well but they are not in-depth like documentaries. The 9/11 attacks were reported all over the world by channels like Fox News, CBS News and ABC News. The News reports all were mostly showing footage of what has actually happened so this would be the footage of the planes hitting the world trade centre. However in a documentary they would have more personal accounts of the attack, so this would be lots of interviews, and just people telling there story on the attacks. In Fahrenheit 9/11 there was a personal account of a woman whose son died at war for his country, this story went into a lot of detail as it supported Michael Moore’s (Director) representation of the topic.

Just to show how quick news programs go through different topics, I’ve got print screens of the start and end of a news story. They start covering the story at 8.00 and it finishes at 10.00, so they only cover the story for 2 minutes. A documentary would cover a topic for over 30 minuets usually up to 1 hour.

Just to show how quick news programs go through different topics, I’ve got print screens of the start and end of a news story. They start covering the story at 8.00 and it finishes at 10.00, so they only cover the story for 2 minutes. A documentary would cover a topic for over 30 minutes usually up to 1 hour.

 The big difference between a news report and a documentary really is, the time frame. I am saying this because a news report reports on current affairs, so they will report something that happened on the same day, but in contrast documentaries will document on a specific subject/topic, and the documentaries are released to audiences a long time after the subject/topic happened. E.G when 9/11 attacks happened that same day all the news channels where reporting it, but it took a long time until a documentary was made on it (Fahrenheit 9/11).

Another example of the difference between news reports and documentaries. The 'Classic albums' series with a resent documentary about the popular rapper Jay-Z with his first album, claiming it as a masterpiece and a 'classic album' in terms of hip hop music. The difference between this documentary an a news report about him is that the documentary is a lot more in-depth about his life and his music getting into the 'nitty-gritty' details, where there are many scenes showing Jay-Z himself in the record studio listening to his songs and explaining their meanings to the viewers. This is very different in a news report as it wouldn't get into these details they would just give factual information on his album and when it is possibly getting released with maybe one quick professional opinion on it.  

Also a completely different example would be of the documentary 'Dark Days', about the homeless in New York specifically in the tube tunnels. A news team would report on this matter in a very third person way only getting basic knowledge about them, 'from afar'. However in Dark Days this documentary's show the lives to these people in a first person perspective at times, which would not be done in a news report, also in the documentary because of this bonding between the documentary maker and the homeless it shows them in a positive to neutral light, keeping a good balance within the documentary. Although I feel in a news report the homeless would be portrayed in a negative fashion in the situation they are in within the documentary, this is a very important difference between the two.