Production Journal 2

For searching about the tattoos we went one saturday to the "Bond Street" in Capital and went to different tattoo shops. There, we talked to the people encharged of the shops and ask them for permition for filming them and do our documental about them and they were fine. They gave us their cards with all their information so we tried to contacted them by phone in the Film class but they didn't answer so we tried by mail and told them about what day we were going to go. When they answered our mail, we agreed to go the next thursday after school (before the winter holidays start) to a tattoo shop called Tattoo Ink because we considered the most serious place and people for work with them. Also it's a very good setting for filming as it has a lot of space for us to be confortable with all the materials without disturbing and it has a great background with a rocker style.

Production Journal 3

Sabrina went to Viveka's house in Capital and I went to mines in Capital too. At 5.30 pm we met in the Bond Street for starting to film. There I filmed the walls of the corridors of the Bond Street that has lots of graffities for make it the opening of the documentary, so then Sabrina edits those images in fast shots and adds rock music.
When we arrived to the shop, Viveka talked with the owners of the tattoo shop for being sure that everything is alright and answer any question or doubt they would have; Sabrina told them what they have to talk about and the theme of our documentary; and I, as the camera-woman, decided what is the best angle for filming, where the light reflects better, where the sound it's going to be clearer, etc.
Luckily, there was a customer that was doing a tattoo, so we took advantage of the situation and Viveka asked him and the tattooer if I could film them a little bit, and they agreed.
After filming 20 min, more or less, I realized the camera run out of memory, so we had to stop filming and go to our houses, downlaod the footish we had to our laptops for having much space for continuing filming an other day.

Quentin Tarantino

1. Violence and humor scenes, clever dialogues.
2. He was a video clerk. He learned everything by this and not by a normal method of film-school. When he studied film in Video Archives, Manhattan Beach, at the same time he was an actor and he used to write his own screenplays.
3. Reservoir Dogs was very criticized because it was said that the move was very similar to City on Fire. Also because it had very unnecessary violent scenes.
4. Horror gerne.
5. Trunk shot:

                                      

this is a low angle shot and creates the feeling that the audience is in the trunk of the car and those characters of the shot are looking to it. It makes the audience wonder what's inside the trunk.

(In Reservoir Dogs: Mr Brown, Mr pink and Mr White looking at Marvin Nash)

Corpse POV:

as the trunk shot, is a low angle shot in which creates the feeling of loss of power.

(In Jackie Brown: Jackie and Ray looking at Ordell dead)

"God eye" POV:

it's an extreme high angle shot which shows more than what the character can see, it creates the sense of control as the audience can see everything clearer.

(In Jackie Brown: Jackie Brown hides money in her bag at the airport's toilets)

6.  Mirror shot:

(In Kill Bill: the Bride in the bathroom looking at her stomach)

It's a shot in which the character has intimacy and privacy in which it thinks and talks to himself.

7. a) Mexican standoff is a shot in which two or more characters are staring at each other with guns.

    b) The term comes from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", a Sergio Leone's film from 1966.

    c) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:

Three Kings:

     d) Reservoir Dogs:

Pulp Fiction:

8. a) MacGuffin is a plot element that catches audience atention. The main characters want to do or obtaing something and can sacrifice everything to get it, like money for example. This pushes foward the plot. It's a common element in the thriller films.

     b) The MacGuffin in Pulp Fiction is the suitcase.

     c) Mission Impossible 3:

Star Wars: