Comments and Ruminations by the Students of Ellen Spiro's Intro to Documentary at the University of Texas, Austin
Sunday, November 30, 2008
forgot
also forgot I had this one uploading to Youtube, one I did a while back and forgot to do anything with. Short intro to my car and a problem I was having at the time.
I wanted to say I really liked your doc since there wasn't much time for critique in class. I think it's really hard to do a piece that focuses on yourself, something really honest and introspective. I agree with Ellen that their should be less of you talking but if you can, I would include more people talking about you. Like, how about the guys that you drift with? I'm sure you've already finished shooting but if you want to keep going with this you could talk to some of those guys about what they think about your skillz. The mechanical imagery is really nice and even though I know nothing about cars I'd like to see more of that. The driving shots are awesome too, you must have some kind of apparatus to get that good of a shot.
So, like Ellen said, more of what you're doing now (though the roof anecdote is priceless) and about the drifting scene. Overall though, it was a pretty moving piece and I didn't really expect to be moved by something about cars. So, well done.
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Ashley,
I wanted to say I really liked your doc since there wasn't much time for critique in class. I think it's really hard to do a piece that focuses on yourself, something really honest and introspective. I agree with Ellen that their should be less of you talking but if you can, I would include more people talking about you. Like, how about the guys that you drift with? I'm sure you've already finished shooting but if you want to keep going with this you could talk to some of those guys about what they think about your skillz. The mechanical imagery is really nice and even though I know nothing about cars I'd like to see more of that. The driving shots are awesome too, you must have some kind of apparatus to get that good of a shot.
So, like Ellen said, more of what you're doing now (though the roof anecdote is priceless) and about the drifting scene. Overall though, it was a pretty moving piece and I didn't really expect to be moved by something about cars. So, well done.
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