On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:45:13 -0500, "RGBaker" <gb@bakerfilms.com> wrote:

>> So for anyone in the know, are these documentaries with the new and

>> different shooting styles being done, as I suspect, by people with little

>or

>> no training? Because really... looking back on it... I did everything by

>> mistake...

>When I was in films school (theory -- semiotics and like) we spent hours

>analyzing why a particular French film of the Nouvelle Vague switched from

>colour to b&w ... when we asked the film's director later in the year when

>he was touring with a festival, he said it was because he went broke half

>way through production and could only afford (or steal, I forget which) b&w

>after that. When later he edited the thing on a borrowed (or stolen, I

>forget which) Steenbeck that was so badly set up and had the wrong bulb ...

>that all the footage looked the same to him. There may also have been a

>heavy fog of Gitane, not to mention a level of caffeine buzz unknown in the

>semi-demi-latte world we inhabit today.

>

>Point is, it was a great film, though apparently forgettable as I can't

>recall which one it was, and this guy got it made the only way he knew

>how -- with talent, vision & enough dumb luck to make him human.

>

>I wish I had his talent & vision, though I'd settle for his luck.

>

>GB

Thanks for a fun post!

I'm amused, too, by the over-analyzation of

the unanalyzable...;-)