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Project Description
Background
Boone is a photographer, installation artist, and curator of film and visual and performing arts. His current work is about explores how cultural and natural changes places that have been destroyed. For example, he take some photos of some graves, those graves are covered by green plants. In addition, he has some photos of big holes caused by bomb craters. Now these holes are covered by green plants and water. Boone wants to show us that “how the power of nature and the resilience and ingenuity of villagers transform these markers of death into sustaining spaces of life.”. He is a immigrant. He was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam and lived in Saigon until 7 years old, and then he moved to Philadelphia.
Story Idea
When the first time Boone Nguyen came to our class and talk about his work, I realize that he will be my project, because he is a immigrant. I have an idea of immigrant that how do Chinese live in America? it is similar to Boone’s experience. I realized that may be Boone can give me some ideas about immigrants. In fact, I do learn some thing during doing this film. Boone talks a lot of his family and the journey of immigrant in the footage. We have almost 10 hours footage, but we only use seven and half mins in the film.
Film structure and Goal:
The film will be narrative documentary. We will explore the relationship between the idea of Boone’s work and his home, families and how he did transformation in his work, like he transform death to live in his works.
Project
The documentary film Boone Nguyen A Story of Home represents Boone’s life in Philadelphia and Vietnam. The beginning of the film, we shows some of his families’ photos. Then, cut to his photography of a his father’s grave. He talks more about this photo. Then, he start to talk about his life. He came to America when he was seven after the war, he came to America with four sisters and two brothers and his parents. His father works for the American government. 2012 he went back to Vietnam because his father was ill and passing and he buried his father. When he went back the home village, he just realized that he never think about the history of the family. When he buried his father he feels that makes a really strong connection between him and his home village. He feels like this is the last gift that his father gives him. He has been working with the seniors, he ask them to draw what their home village looks like. Then he talks about his mom. His mom is 86 years old, she is amazing woman. Film end up with his aunt’s photo. In this film, we use some B-rolls with the interview. First B-roll is his family photo, then is his photo of his father’s grave. Third one is his old photo shows he buried someone. Fourth one is when he help the seniors. Fifth is the road of Philadelphia. Final one is car driving on the Vietnamese road.
Citation
Nguyen, Boone. “Bomb Craters.” Boone Nguyen, 2015, www.boonenguyen.com/gallery-bomb-craters.
Timeline
PRE-PRODUCTION
Sep 2017- Oct 2017
Meet with documentary subjects in the class
Confirm documentary subject
Talk with Boone Nguyen about the interview
PRODUCTION
Oct 13th 2017
First Shoot in Monument lab (1401 Bigler St, Philadelphia, PA 19145)
Equipment
Rhino Slider EVO (42") 002
Rhino EVO Motion Control 001
Tascam DSLR Recorder 003
Rode VideoMic 006
Sennheiser EW100 Wireless System 010
Panasonic GH4 003
Manfrotto Monopod 001
Panasonic 45-175mm f/4-5.6 Power Zoom 001
Oct 26th 2017
Shoot SEAMAAC Gala
Equipment
XLR Cable
Sennheiser ME66 Short Shotgun Microphone
Zoom H4N Recorder
Panasonic GH4
Manfrotto Monopod
Nov 7th 2017
Shoot Elder Art Program
Equipment
Panasonic GH4
Manfrotto Monopod
Nov 11th 2017
Shoot interview in Boone’s house in Philadelphia (3404 Hamilton st Apt 2, PA 19104)
Equipment
Tascam DSLR Recorder
Standard Boom Pole
20' XLR Cable
Sennheiser MKH416 Short Shotgun Microphone
C Stand
Sennheiser EW100 Wireless System
Panasonic GH4
Panasonic GH5
5 in 1 Reflecto
rArri 150/150 Fresnel Kit
Manfrotto Lightweight Tripod
Dec 11th 2017
Skype interview
Equipment
Macbook Pro
Skype
Quicktime screen recording
POSTPRODUCTION
Nov 16th 2017
Assemblies
Nov 30th 2017
Rough Cut
Dec 7th 2017
Fine Cut
Dec 14th 2017
Final Cut
Equipment Check List
RELEASE FORM
PRODUCTION ROLES:
Director - Justin and Heather
Production Coordinator - Heather and Po-Hsien
Camera - All
Sound - Heather and Po-Hsien
Rough editor - Po-Hsien and Hualong
Final editor - Po-Hsien w/ assistance from group
EDITING NOTES (used in the editing process- copied from Google drive )
○ Assemblies 11.16.17
■ Responses;
● Good b-roll image and sound
● Use the whole video
○ Boone’s journey home
○ Migration
○ His work as an artist
■ Where to begin?
● Think outside the box; set the stakes
● Start with a mystery & create tension
○ Rough Cut Notes 11.30.17
■ Starting/ Intro
● Establish shots
● Soft introduce the character from afar and build the character
● Show us, don’t tell us who he is
● Set the stakes
● Sound and image don’t have to coincide, they can cause tension but let them do that and then let them grow and eventually work together
● Less is more
○ Fine Cut Notes 12.7.17
■ Responses;
● 2nd intro sets up story better/ introduces Boone
● Theme/focus; what home means
○ Dad= a strong tie
● Introduce Boone and the problem first
● Tie into his art
● Tighter stories, build more sequences
● Weak ending
○ Find a finalization line, what does his future entail?
○ Final Edit 12.14.17
■ Sound review
■ Conclusion/ tighten storylines & interview
■ End credits/ spelling
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Research Portfolio
I did some research of Boone Nguyen. This is his website that shows me his information, such as where he was born, when did he come to America, what is his works about. In addition, I also search him on the google, I found his Facebook and I check it for know him well. I found him Vimeo as well.
http://www.boonenguyen.com/
https://www.facebook.com/boone.nguyen
https://vimeo.com/boonenguyen
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Justin used skype to connect to Boone, because Boone went back to Vietnam and we have to ask something to finish our film, so the only way is to skype chat with Boone. In the skype chat, Boone says that he is going to attend a wedding. Boone and Justin talk about Boone’s mom, brothers, works and ask some footage from Boone’s works (wedding).
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Gala party. A big party for artist. Justin and Hsien went the party and shot many interesting and amazing videos. I did go because I have class.
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This is the second interview we have made in Boone’s current rent house in Philadelphia. We have spent around 5 hours in this interview. We set up two camera (one is in front of him with medium shot, other one is on the side of him with close up shot). We plan to set the medium shot camera as a settled and the close up shot camera as a active which means we will not move the medium shot camera, we may move the close up shot camera to his hand or somewhere else. Heather, Justin and Hsien do the interview in house, I pick some of Boone’s photos to shot outside. I did some B-rolls of the street, house and Boone’s families’ photos. Finally, we use Boone’s families’ photos as the intro in our film.
Transcript
https://docs.google.com/document/d/198nQ7oZ9HvsBBGrgHjwDHERvBixZ4utuAOgEiIHNGRE/edit
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Questions:
1.What are my personal interests in the topic I have chosen?
My personal interests in Boone's topic is that when I watched Boone's photos and shot film about funeral, I can see the different culture between China and Vietnam. He is a immigrant from Vietnam. My project is also about immigrant, so I want to know more background of him that could help me to build my project better.
2.Why have I selected this issue?
The immigrant is always a big issue in the world. I want to focus on Chinese immigrant and Chinese students live in American. I want to focus on their life. Because I always hear someone who never come to American say that the people work and study in American have better life than in China. I want to show them the real life about us in American.
3.How has this issue impacted my life?
Come to American is the most important thing in my life. When I was in China, I thought that come to American is not that difficult and also I can get rid of my parents that I can live free. But, I am wrong, the life in American is hard; bad language skill always make me afraid to talk. Sometimes feel loneliness; miss my family and so on.
4.What do I want to communicate about this issue to a viewer who may not know about this issue?
I want to show the viewer the real life of Chinese in American.
5.What do I want to communicate about this issue to a viewer who may be already familiar with this issue?
Even the viewer know about this, I think most of them only know a bit of us. I want to show them the truth.
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Two week ago, our team filmed Boone’s show in a park. This park is build for immigrant. We got there at 4:30. Me and Jastin filmed many B-Rolls such as the cars on the street, the CITY OF PHILADELPHIA RECREATION FACILITY sculpture. Poshion find some questions for Boone’s interview. Heather tall to people to get the permition. Then the show began and Boone arrived. After the show, we have an interview with Boone.
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We had a trip to The Color Girls Museum. I look around the whole house, there is one picture that catch my eyes. That picture is on the top right of my post. The artist draw that picture with fire on the wood. I use to study drawing such as sketch, so I know this picture is a good sketch. There are many other interesting things as well. I shoot a short video of the electric fan on the top of the roof, it is very beautiful.
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I watched a show named Lossless. When I walked into the room and look around, I found some interesting film on the wall such as Mother’s Return, An Ecstatic Experience, Three Quarters and so on. There is only one film that most grabbed my attention named ITIFWORQ/DOUBLE GOLD. This film sits in the deepest part of the room. This film shot by Sosena Solomon. The main Character is Sosena Solomon’s grandmother. It sets as a family room. It has a sofa, table, four coffee cups, breads and knife. Two screens are in front of me, I sit on the sofa and watch this film for 6 times. This film talks about a 94 years old woman killed a soldier when she was 14 years old in the Ethiopian antifascist resistance, and then her husband abandons the family. She had to support the family by herself. Then her uncle asked her to get married again. I think the most part of film that catch my attention is the story, some close up shots and stop shots. This film uses expository mode that For the story, I can remember that when the grandma talks how did she kill a soldier, she feels happy and none of fear, I feel she is telling us a funny story. I feel she is powerful in the war. she was just 14 years old, I can’t image that how did she kill a heavily armed soldier. For the close up shot, I really like the close up shot on her hand. It represents that she is a fighter not only in the war but also in the life. Her hand is full of wrinkle; I think she had to do a lot of works to support her family by herself. She has many children. For the stop shots, there are three stop shots in the end of the film. When the grandma finish talking the story. She is standing outside of the room, when she turns around her face to the camera, she realizes that the camera is filming her, then she smiles to the camera. I feel she is optimistic and powerful. Although she had hard life before, she is still smile to the life. I feel she is still beautiful. In the conclusion, People always think that man has more power than woman, but this film intrigues me because it shows me that women have the same power as a man
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