Voiko totuutta tavoittaa? : direct cinema -tyylisuunnan käyttö dokumenttielokuvassa

The subject of this study is the use of direct cinema style in documentary film. The main purpose of this thesis was to the research the ways in which direct cinema style attempts to show and achieve truth in documentary films. The following questions were posed: Is it possible to depict reality in a documentary film; how does the choice of using this style affect the final documentary? The essential purpose of this study was to try to see whether the direct cinema style works when trying to achieve truth in a documentary film. This work consints of two elements, the theoretical part and the short documentary. The theoretical part deals with the history, the truth, and the direct cinema- style in documentaries. The theoretical information of direct cinema has been used when making the short documentary. In the documentary Tuloaula 2 I have studied the way in which using direct cinema -style works in practise. The documentary has followed as strictly as possible the direct cinema style. I was the director, the cameraman and the editor of my documentary film. In the documentary film Tuloaula 2 it appeared that the direct cinema style works best when filming everyday life. By using this style it is easy for the director to observe and leave his own persona in the background. The strength in using the direct cinema style is that it enables the viewer to build his/her own impression on the subject. Even though the direct cinema style aims to achieve objectivity the director has to make numerous subjective choices during both the filming and the editing process. These subjective choices automatically effect the "truth" of the documentary film. The difficulty in a direct cinema style is the large amount of material. This often leads to a long editing phase, which is not often possible in the busy production schedules. The direct cinema style is not at its best when shooting people who are passive because their attention often focuses too much on the camera. In general, the best way to make a documentary film would be to use many documentary styles in one film and not to srictly concentrate on only one style.

”Hollywood-syndromi”, jazzia ja dodekafoniaa : elokuvamusiikin funktioanalyysi neljässä 1950- ja 1960-luvun vaihteen suomalaisessa elokuvassa

Musiken som hördes i de finländska filmerna vid skiftet av 1950- och 1960-talet var mycket varierande. Det fanns till exempel jazzschlager, modern konstmusik som innovativt kombinerats med Hollywood-klichéer, dodekafonisk musik och mainstream jazz. Gällande stilval, kompositionssätt, instrumentering, harmonisering och användningssätt av filmmusik rådde det då möjligen en större frihet än någonsin i Finland. Anu Juvas avhandling behandlar musiken till fyra filmer genom filmmusikens funktionsanalys och i sitt kulturhistoriska sammanhang. Näranalyserna har gjorts av Lasisydän ( Glashjärtat 1959) och Komisario Palmun erehdys ( Mysteriet Rygseck [sic!] 1960), som Matti Kassila har regisserat, Maunu Kurkvaaras Yksityisalue ( Privatområde 1962) och Erkko Kivikoskis Kesällä kello 5 ( Klockan 5 denna sommar 1963). Musiken till dessa filmer har komponerats av Jaakko Salo, Osmo Lindeman, Usko Meriläinen och Pentti Lasanen. Regissörerna och kompositörerna till dessa filmer var alla på olika sätt förnyare av sin tids konventioner. Funktionsanalysen avslöjar, hur musiken i filmerna fungerar, dvs. vilka dess uppgifter är i dessa filmer som låter mycket olika. Vidare granskas det, hur musik valdes till olika filmer samt de olika genrernas ställning inom det kulturella fältet. Undersökningen öppnar en utsikt över en av de mest intressanta tidpunkterna inom finländsk filmmusik.

Kolmekymmentä vuotta, eikä suotta : Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2011

Teemanumero 1/2012: Arkisto.