PSNA film

Yeah, it's a feature film. It's the first protest film that wasn't part of the AMPP series or The Dakumentary, but it builds off several previous Palestine rallies and the 2024 hīkoi film. - All volunteers, obviously. That's what makes it exciting. Wasn't cheap, but nobody was funding it. - It's relying on things like graphic matches and perspective matches to compress time. The big shot in the middle lasts 16 minutes. My take is is that the R100 auto exposure mimics human perceptual normalisation and the auto focus mimics saccades, therefore it feels 'real' in a way that was nearly impossible with previous models. I'd compare it to French and German New Wave films of the 1960's and 1970's, while Portrait of a Knight is more like Italian neorealism. Emanuel is an Antonioni fan... When I said that the Wellington Stories trilogy wasn't perfect, he said that Antonioni's trilogy wasn't either. - These aren't graded. That's just how they look. It's an assembly, but by now I've mastered how to pace the shots. The sound is good because it's an ambient microphone, not a directional one. It's the inbuilt one, while we used Ambisonics and booms for our early films. The Dakumentary revealed that phone cameras had good ambient audio, so I think that Canon's responded to some of the typical critiques of NZ filmmakers. The lighting here is particularly harsh, and the R100 had some ugly hot spots in winter.