Incident at Loch Ness...

This blog is for Media 150 and its blog entry #2.

"What I See"

A documentary film I saw not too long ago was called "Incident At Loch Ness". It's about a producer(Zak Penn)who wants to find out more about the mystery of Loch Ness and has asked a well-known documentary film director Werner Herzog to make the film about the creature. The group of people consisting of sound crew, director, producer, and others set out to Scotland of search of the Loch Ness monster. Along the journey, arguments began to erupt about the film's purpose and how its a waste of time between the director(Werner) and the producer(Zak Penn - he started the idea of Loch Ness).

A lot of things happen in the climax of the movie when the crew started to see the back of Loch Ness from one side of the boat to the other. After looking at it the boat started to shake and one of the crew members fell in the water and was never seen again. Later on, the crew lost all contact for a whole day and if things could not get any worse something else happened. The Loch Ness monster started hitting the boat as hard as it can and then the boat started to sink. One of the crew members started shooting at the monster but to no avail, instead he was dragged into the water and drowned. Werner tried to revive him but it was too late as the remainder of the ship sank, but somehow Zak suvived.

The next day a couple of locals were out having fun until he found a body floating in the water along with a water proof case with a camera inside of it. When someone behind one of the locals told him to give him the camera it was none other than Zak himself. The group went in search of the remaining survivors of his crew and luckily found most of them alive but all of them are really upset about Zak leaving them behind. In the end, instead of the director being credited for his movie it was the producer who was being credited for it instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-PcFphecU

Above is an example of the camera work being done in the movie. From looking at it, the camera was handheld and it always shakes. It sometimes moves around when it has to when something as big as the Loch Ness monster comes along. There was a lot of serious parts that felt real mainly on the crew and a lot less on the background. Throughout the whole movie, it was always dark and gloomy but in the end it was sunny. The shots of everyone through their adventure was always consistent and it was meant to be that way. That kind of feel in the movie felt scary and there was a sense of nervousness due to the situation they were in. There was a part where the camera was dropped into the water and it had shown the monster swimming in the dark murky depths of the water. I thought that was pretty interesting.