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If the NYU grad student strike happens, I demand that someone make an expose/documentary-style film of it, centering around the controversy, but with the following elements:
- Pointless, yet fulfilling, subplots in which we learn more about the more flamboyant/outspoken/unique of the participants.
- Footage of other film makers/news media/misc. cameramen covering the event, as if the makers of this film believe they are above the others.
- The use of establishing shots of the Arch, at various times of day/night, from different high/low/tracking/panning shots, as a intro/coda to individual chapters of the film.
- Shots from POV of crowds, looking over their heads at authority figures, ie Sexton. (Think: Handheld).
- The time-honored technique of letting interview subjects sit for 10 seconds or so without asking any questions to make them look shifty.
- Some sort of mournful closure on how both sides are right, and wrong. (Grad students claims are legitimate, and their desires understandable/ NYU's claim of the Grad students already being well compensated also true, with much anti-NYU rhetoric being grossly exaggerated in terms of tone and vilification.)
I should be a film maker.
- Pointless, yet fulfilling, subplots in which we learn more about the more flamboyant/outspoken/unique of the participants.
- Footage of other film makers/news media/misc. cameramen covering the event, as if the makers of this film believe they are above the others.
- The use of establishing shots of the Arch, at various times of day/night, from different high/low/tracking/panning shots, as a intro/coda to individual chapters of the film.
- Shots from POV of crowds, looking over their heads at authority figures, ie Sexton. (Think: Handheld).
- The time-honored technique of letting interview subjects sit for 10 seconds or so without asking any questions to make them look shifty.
- Some sort of mournful closure on how both sides are right, and wrong. (Grad students claims are legitimate, and their desires understandable/ NYU's claim of the Grad students already being well compensated also true, with much anti-NYU rhetoric being grossly exaggerated in terms of tone and vilification.)
I should be a film maker.