WEEK TWO

Week two began exploring some of the ideas that I wanted to in the previous week which I enjoyed. Looking at both Unedited Footage of a Bear and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, we got to see two very strong examples of how films can make people uncomfortable. I really enjoyed the two different choices of film because I think that they explore these ideas in different ways genre-wise. Footage of a Bear focuses on horror and cinematic elements and techniques while Monty Python is more focused on how narrative and writing can subvert a common story and make a successful comedy. I would like to know if the metacommentary used in Monty Python would still work today or if it is something that has been overused and does not have the same uncomfortable effect that it originally had. Overall I was very interested in how Unedited Footage of a Bear used different film techniques in; sound, camera, lighting, etc and added new meaning by not using them conventionally.