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4/5/12

Interrelational Film Notes


  1. Film starts with several different interracial comedic scenes which could draw the audience in but fail to do so as the film quickly switches to a serious voice recording.
  2. The first text slide moves by so quickly that you feel like you’ve missed something. If you pause on the frame you can read through the text but it doesn’t seem to be explained at all either by the text itself or by the voice.
  3. There are two separate points of view laid out in the video, an interview with an older white male who is against interracial relationships but claims not to be a racist and a young hispanic man who thinks interracial relationships are fine. The group seems to have spent more time on the white male which confuses the audience as to whether they are arguing for or against interracial relationship until we get to the slide at 0:54 where the text clearly demonstrates that the video is advocating for acceptance of interracial relationships.
  4. We next see a news report of the extreme anti-interracial relationship view which involves a man hiring an assassin to kill his daughter in law. This is followed by another text frame in which it becomes clear that the creators of the video are probably black because of the specificity of dealing with thoughts on black people involved in interracial relationships. As a white male myself this automatically distances me from the topic at hand. There is also traditionally african american music playing in the background which seems to detract even more from the ethos of the authors as it would seem that they are unable to pull back and look at the larger picture of what interracial relationships mean. A clip of a black TV show on BET is seen next and seems to go off topic in a way because it is dealing with specifically black individuals who enter into interracial relationships. The scope of the topic seems much narrower than it should be.
  5. What would seem to be primary research is shown in a series of interviews starting with a young black woman, an older black woman, a younger hispanic woman, a younger black man, and finally a younger white male. These interviews are actually one of the better sections of the video as they seem to show a large variety of differing viewpoints even within the same races and all of the people being interviewed seem to be well spoken and have strong opinions on the matter.
  6. The voice comes back into it again but in reality it tends towards the monotone and because of the lack of visual stimuli during the spoken sections the voice becomes less interesting and the audience begins to lose interest.
  7. There is a text slide which brings up the Miscegenation law which was on the first text slide but once again the audience doesn’t really get enough information about what happened. The music is upbeat at this point perhaps to emphasize the positivity The Lovings overturning the Miscegenation law although it doesn’t seem to be stated whether they are successful or not.
  8. Finally the video is concluded with around 15 pictures of various interracial couples, mosty famous and pretty much explicitly including one black person.
  9. Credits include first names only of the group members but no citing for the news reports or movies used in the film.

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