Wednesday 7 February 2007

-[[ Half A Year On...]]-

"Half a year after the 7.8 earthquake in Kashmir, the victims are facing a small window of reconstruction before the next winter closes in" Yuli Yang (Director)

This documentary uses many interviewees especially of the survivors which I liked as its an idea for my own production. It also uses specialists and experts who are helping to rebuild Kashmir. It shows the people of Kashmir in desperate situations right before the snow closes in and as we are told kills many. The purpose is to get more money funded into the rebuilding of the land in the few months before the snow which in many places falls upto 8 feet. The film also shows why it is so serious as Kashmir is purely a mountainous area where majority of the people actually lived in the mountains, it shows that they need help before there lifes are threatened again. I liked the way the interviews took place and how in between speech footage was shown which I would like to interpret into my own documentary but unlike this film representing the people as desperate I would prefer to show them as strong due to how much they have overcome.

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