Su Friedrich drags this documentary on for an incredible 54 minutes.
Miedl, of Biorama says on the DVD slip that Su uses the observing camera. This means no script and a documentary that resembles a picture post card, only a lot longer.
Sadly she uses the song, "I love coffee, I love tea" about 1,000 times in the documentary to the point of nausea. Clearly she has no point of view. Except that poor people pick the beans and westerners consume the coffee. What a revelation.
Su needs to take a filmmaking course at the Learning Annex for tips on composition, lighting, sound, audio track, editing, story line, shot placement, shot sequencing and about everything else in filmmaking. She did turn on the camera tho and found the ON button.
Narration tracks can really help move a documentary along with poetic vocabulary. Think Ken Burns.
This might have been a good 5 minute video with super tight editing and a really cool tune.
As a former judge of educational videos, we would have turned this one off after about 3 minutes.
All those shots without much going on would have been a great place to inform the viewer about the process of coffee. And there are about 100 shots of coffee drinkers in NYC.
Do writers ever throw random sentences on the page and say, "I leave it to the reader to figure it out". Come on. Why do filmmakers think they can do the same thing.
But that is OK. I give her an A for effort, now get to work and learn the basics.
Miedl, of Biorama says on the DVD slip that Su uses the observing camera. This means no script and a documentary that resembles a picture post card, only a lot longer.
Sadly she uses the song, "I love coffee, I love tea" about 1,000 times in the documentary to the point of nausea. Clearly she has no point of view. Except that poor people pick the beans and westerners consume the coffee. What a revelation.
Su needs to take a filmmaking course at the Learning Annex for tips on composition, lighting, sound, audio track, editing, story line, shot placement, shot sequencing and about everything else in filmmaking. She did turn on the camera tho and found the ON button.
Narration tracks can really help move a documentary along with poetic vocabulary. Think Ken Burns.
This might have been a good 5 minute video with super tight editing and a really cool tune.
As a former judge of educational videos, we would have turned this one off after about 3 minutes.
All those shots without much going on would have been a great place to inform the viewer about the process of coffee. And there are about 100 shots of coffee drinkers in NYC.
Do writers ever throw random sentences on the page and say, "I leave it to the reader to figure it out". Come on. Why do filmmakers think they can do the same thing.
But that is OK. I give her an A for effort, now get to work and learn the basics.
