The Beginning

TV 2 – The Beginning

Expectations, experience and reflections made in TV 1 are the main contribution aspects to this semesters Film-TV production. The personal interest of documentary is finally getting explored and I am wondering how this production will be and what the result of this film will be. Haven done one short film production and now few weeks later making a new one is incredibly exciting and PLUS I finally found a friend that is interested in arts!

In his article, author Tobias talks about “the search for the feeling of being there”. The message this author wants to convey is the existence of the main character by digging under the surface. The clear and concise description of time and place, takes the reader into Tobia’s space of his childhood. The details of outfit, climate and location shows how this ‘Garden of Eden’ was like for him as a boy. What I can take into consideration for my learning progress of this article, is the way this author approaches this story and how has formulated it in a simple way to his audience. By talking about his documentary production experience in the chosen language, this for me as a reader looks like an introduction to his experience of filmmaking and how it all went when looking at his reflection of experience and expectations.

Attitude and technology are the main keywords of this article as this adds the contents of the article together as searching for the fragments, shots and master shots for the imagined story line – “Filming is searching for and capturing the ingredients with which to make sequences”.


In Pawlikowski’s article, where everything is being filmed all the time it is essential that filmmakers to filmmaking as opposed to recordings. The set up of scenes, narratives, shot construction and films forcing one to think through their very forms is an interesting aspect of how the author wants the audience themselves to shape opinion and create a form of the presented. What I find most important here how the filming takes place everywhere and the role of the director. Also, in the YouTube clip upon animal slaughtering, a couple of Pawlikowski’s key points are to be found:

-Force to think: crucial images of what humans are capable to do to animals.

-TV killing documentary: more variations of broadcast channels than before (difference between family and political oriented channels) and many documentaries are turning into TV series and shows.

Example: How the first notion of the fittest survival on an island can stir and create the will to kill amongst humans in the same society. From being a classic scientifical research, this notion soon turned into the book ‘The Lord of the Flies’, then the movie, then the creation of the “The Beach” shot in Thailand and now, this notion has made the collection of the “LOST” series. Its TV, its Mass Production, it’s the Future and this is what me as an audience also want to see.

-Use of real people, real truth, telling touching stories without theatrically and literary dialogues. This is still done as seen in TARNATION were images and short sentences told the two kids story.