Researching Yanni.Fin.

Reflecting on the research of the docu, the film we have proposed to make involves the existence of Yanni Warnock – Melbourne artist and filmmaker. For the talent we have chosen to use, the research shows Yanni’s knowledge and experience of filmmaking, how he sorts out information and issues of filmmaking, his behavior and his little brother Michael. As we have discussed in the tute and also in the group, aesthetic approaches we have thought about, is the formalism of the documentary. When thinking back on the short film ‘NOW’ (1965) that was shown in the tute (and also what we talked about earlier in the semester of ‘documentary and form’ and how it can be loose) this became a key point for our project. In terms of Yanni, he can change identity due to himself as both a performer and a filmmaker, and I think it is the deepness in this we can explore through the docu production of a filmmaker. What we mentioned in the about this was how:

‘The relationship to Yanni, can celebrate the view and an image of being subjective, to this one collective authorship’.
To break this sentence down, I would highlight the challenge we as filmmakers face here: as for Yanni’s complexity of himself, the filmmaker and the artist – I think, we will experience how an interviewed person, will be more than one ‘subjective’ and maybe instead ‘subjectives’, talking about himself in one wholeness. Why I say that is because we will not know when each part of Yanni comes out. How do we know, when if he says something about filmmaking process, that something could be meant to us in how we use say for example lighting? Differentiating this will be fun I think.

Lastly on this research, the effects used in ‘NOW’ as expressions, music, tri-effects, crash zooms and culture, highlighted the theme of this movie and I believe it was this combination of footage and sound effects that strengthened this short film. For location, this has been selected. We have also tested the camera and sound equipment, and are now individually exploring both old and new technical tactics on these.