Goshogaoka

The Film Goshogaoka has by far been one of my favorite films throughout the semester. First of all, i thought the subject of the film was what made the film as interesting as it was. The choice of filming a girl's basketball team in china, and using choreographed moves to portray them on camera was fascinating.

First I’d like to say that even though this film seemed real ( by real I mean that the characters are doing this as a daily routine) it was staged like a play. Lockhart's use of a camera allows us to only see what's in the frame. So basically one can only see what’s going on within the stage, and like a play things happen offstage that sometimes we can't see which makes the movie and use of camera more effective. The use of a long shot also makes us as viewers focus on the whole team as a whole, and not only on one player. we see the team as unit, that is unified by one thing, and that is basketball. By watching these girls, you can also see them as performers and not only basketball players. The reason one can see them as performers, is because the way they are choreographed.

One thing that also stands out within this film is that there are never actual shots of the players playing, or even of them doing anything that one can say they're even players. The shots of them choreographed really don't mean anything if you think of it, they all simply do the same thing, which means that what they are doing could be a show, and all they are doing is something anyone else can do with practice.