Week 2 Week for 9 and 10 Finishing Quarter and Creating Storyboards

Week 9 and Week 10
-Transferred Pal tapes and began transfer of mini DV tapes to DVD for logging
-Watched "Wild life"
-Worked on and finished reverse storyboards for Benjamin Smoke and "Trembling Before G-D."
-Met with film team to discuss and interview new co-producer and interns. Also met to discuss time line for the project, roles and new grant opportunities.
-Wrote two drafts of self evaluation
-Met with tutor to clean up audio in the extended trailer and worked on posting it to You-Tube
-Talked with animators about getting sketches to me by January deadline
-Brainstormed fundraisers to have for TQ this next year and drafted new budget for grants.

Film viewing notes on "Wild Life"

-Normalization of these queer Latino young men.

-What is being gay? “There is no difference between us and heteros, I was born like this.”

-Theatrical set up, a separation of reality, acting out the steps of there interactions as gay people, IT almost seems fake, This reminded me of Brecht plays in showing the falseness of this “Reality.”

-What makes it a documentary is maybe that they are not actors?

-Sneaking around, changing into gay clothes on the street

-Dressing wild, being wild= gay

-Very intimate but also very surface, here are the signifier's of these people who are very aware of being watched and performing for the camera.

-I imagine this as a good educational video for allies about the inside life of queer folk.

-”We are exactly the same, were 100% gay” One of the boys says this about his friend while putting on neon makeup.

-”Love is knowing that you'll never be lonely again.”

- The film ends with an audio description of why the filmmaker made this. I both like and dis-like not knowing till the end why he chose to shoot in this style. It was a cool set up to dive into this world of these boys lives, it was also a little hard to follow without knowing the intention behind the film.