Week 6

As week 6 rolls around, we still only remain in the planning phases of our movie production. Jessica and myself decided we were going to go online, find some places where there are ping pong tables and go check them out. All was well…until we decided to check travel to the bars. Apparently the webpage which references 6 or 7 different places with ping pong tables had incorrect information, or at least a lack of information. When Jessica and myself arrived to the first place, we walked in, and to our surprise it was nothing like the web page has described, definitely with no pong table. Our next stop was conveniently across the street. As we roll up to the building we notice that there is a line coming out of the door. Naturally we get excited, but…once again, to our surprise we find out that there is a concert being held there that night. “Awww man.” That night we wound up empty handed on our quest to explore this so called cult sport. I hit the internet looking once again for some new places, but I still noticed that different sites were referencing these places, so I don’t know what to expect now. On the other hand...foosball is even more abundant and played in extremes in almost every bar.

The movie idea is still lacking a little bit of structure. Since our film doesn’t have a story line, it’s going to be kind of difficult to predict how it will look until we start getting some footage. We have some film of some structures and images so far, and a little bit of people playing Tisch Tennis. But it hasn’t been slotted together yet, so its still just a clump of individual movies with no way to tie them. There is a good question in our presence however. How do we tie in footage of buildings, movement, and people and put it in all together? Perhaps we could have a scene of people have a ping pong battle on the top of a train going towards the Reichstag. Extreme!!! But not likely. My group wants to put iconic images in the beginning, and transition it to extremely fast paced ping pong scenes. This transition will go from a still photo to extreme speed, and I’m kind of curious of how well we could transition it so that it is smooth, and still creative.

As we saw in “Wings of desire,” they went from iconic scenes of Berlin, to the beginning of the story which introduced he characters. When the characters were introduced, they spent most of their time sitting on the iconic monument known as the victory column. This was a good transition from City images to people, since both thing were main elements in the movie. As we could see the angles always went back to this monument almost like it was their home base. This shows that the icon plays a huge role in the movie, for more of a purpose than just identifying that it is Berlin. I think we’re going to have a problem with the tie in that case. This is because our images are only for identifying the city as Berlin and nothing more. So it’s going to be difficult to show solid Imaged, then go to characters and documentary material without a rigid cut. I’m worried because we will never go back to these first images during the movie. So it will be kind of tacky at the beginning,