{"id":3396,"date":"2019-03-04T03:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T08:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:42:20","slug":"joshua-kim-they-shall-not-grow-old-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/2019\/03\/04\/joshua-kim-they-shall-not-grow-old-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Kim; They Shall Not Grow Old Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similar to the skype with Dr. John van Wyhe about Digital Darwin, this film \u201cThey Shall Not Grow Old\u201d gave me insight and shined a light onto a subfield of STS that I had never even considered: digital projects through filmmaking and movies. Although I thought the film was very well put together and captivating through its entirety, I found the half an hour documentary after the movie to be the impressive and moving element of the film. As the director of the movie explained how the movie was slowly put together in bits and pieces, I couldn\u2019t help but be amazed by how all the moving parts came together to create this astonishing recreation of World War I. The following are notes that I took as the director explained each part of creating his digital project: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colorization<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Magazine\/comics\/sketch\u2019s<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Subconscious propaganda within <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use of BBC audio tapes <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Being as authentic as possible throughout the building of the film<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">600 hours of audio<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">100 hours of video <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cameraman can\u2019t capture actual fighting <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So cleverly used sketches from WWI magazine<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Had to think Morally and technically <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Static videos became moving shots<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Took photos of landscape in belgium <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Created their own sounds (sloshing, cannon shots, rifles)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Microphones around new zealand real bomb shells<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forensic lip readers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Went into archives, June 30th- pep talk<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music track&#8230; instrumental music<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critics music: Mademoiselle from Armentieres<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">British embassy <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were many parts to WWI and had to focus on a specific element<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also had planes, nurses, home front, navy <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dedicated to god father and great uncle who served in WWI<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asked us at the end to look within your own family\/lineage to see if your parents were in the world war<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If I was surprised by how much effort was made into Darwin Online, I was really impressed and shocked by the dedication and thought put into this movie. Never did I expect so much audio footage and video footage to have to be scavenged, own sound effects, or even forensic lip readers. A highlight that the director mentioned was how the production team was able to find (almost 100% sure) the exact letter one of the sargents was reading to their troops in a famous scene before the World War I. The fact that they went through archives and found a specific date that would\u2019ve made sense and aligned the lip movements to the archived letter was just wild to me. Whether this was extreme luck or mastery of filmmaking, this was a feat that put me in awe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, without the short film at the end of the movie, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to appreciate all the hard work and effort put into this movie. I just wouldn\u2019t have known. From the moving shots of static images to actually travelling to Belgium in order to capture the genuinity of the landscape to the clever use of sketches, the movie had so many elements that were so well integrated into the movie. As the audience, I never had to question the authenticity of the movie nor did I stop to think about it. And the singing at the end from the British embassy&#8230;a scene I would\u2019ve never expected. If there\u2019s anything I definitely gained through this moving film, I have truly found an appreciation and newfound respect for digital projects and filmmaking. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to the skype with Dr. John van Wyhe about Digital Darwin, this film \u201cThey Shall Not Grow Old\u201d gave me insight and shined a light onto a subfield of STS that I had never even considered: digital projects through filmmaking and movies. 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