Boondocks

Bresson quotes

"Cinema seeks immediate and definitive expression through mimicry, gestures, intonations of voice. This system inevitably excludes expression through contacts of images and of sounds and the transformations that result them." pg 22
Being able to use both this systems simultaneously will be able multiple the effect of a joke, similar to how the addition of sound multiplies booth the image and sound. Humor made using contacts of image and sound result in a higher level, funnier joke.
"All those effects you can get from the repetition (of an image, of a sound)." pg. 29
I want to see how much humor i can create through repetition. similar to how archer consistently reuses jokes such as, "can't or won't" and "phrasing, boom".
-Robert Bresson

porterfield article/ putty hill

"It was just a treatment, a 5-page scenario. The locations were detailed in the script, we knew which characters would appear, and we had this fictional construct that bound everything together, which was the death of this young man from an overdose. Beyond that, there were no lines that were recorded or memorized; it was all collaborative work with the actors that was done on location."

Its impressive how something as simple as a treatment can work well enough to inform the actors with enough information that an entire production could be happen from just a treatment. Porterfield must have great communication skills to work with his actors on the set, considering how emotional and intimate many of the scenes in Putty Hill are.

I wonder how shooting went. If the actors rehearsed before hand then shot a single time, or if they filmed multiple takes until they had the shot they wanted.