Homeland Episode 1Research

Series Name: Homeland

Season: 5

Directed by: Lesli Linka Glatter

Synopsis: About 2 and half Years has passed since the last season Carrie Mathison is now an ex-CIA agent trying to start a new life in Berlin, Germany with her daughter away from her past life of an agent. This comes to an abrupt end as 1361 classified files were stolen by the CIA in which Carrie's firend Laura, has recieved a portion of the stolen documents and Saul Barenson and Peter Quinn arrives in Berlin the moment the files were stolen. The CIA begins to leak into Carrie's new life in Berlin. Carrie after requesting help for safe passage for a refugee camp in Beirut, was kidnapped a couple days later by the men who worked with Abu-Nazir in response to her call for passage. The meeting seemed to have gone in failure for Carrie and was sent home.

My own thoughs: What I like about the episode is how it started off with a clean slate of equilibrium after the 2 year timeskip. It gave a small revival to the series by starting off with a clean slate. We have a former CIA agent living a new life in Berlin, far away from the CIA life with her daughter and boyfriend. Things goes well until there was a Hack attack against the CIA where classified data was stolen which originated from Berlin. The moment the hack attack took place is where the equilibrium collapsed and since then, the episode was then spent alternating between Carrie's life in Berlin and the CIA's activities reaching Berlin with Saul Berenson, Carrie's former mentor and Peter Quinn a CIA Black Ops agent.

In terms to Camera movement, the camera style for the episode was mostly if not entirely done by freehand. This method of camera movement gives the feeling that we the audience are there at the exact moment as it mimicks a first person shot, with very small subtle movements throughout every scene. The type of shots used in this episode ranges from over the shoulder shots, shot reverse shot, two shots, mediup close ups and panning shots. What I like about the camera work is mainly how the it was done in freehand to create that realistic feel that we are there at that exact time and place and it's my main source of inspiration for my project.

Location Information

Location address: 89 King Street, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 1ER

The layout for the location and some camera movements for one of the actors.

Equipment/resources list for the directions unit.

Cast/Crew for the Directions Drama

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas for the Self Portrait 

For the Self portrait project I got on Idea on how I want the project to go. I wanted the portrait to be mainly based on my Hobbies and Interests that would be used to define myself for the Portrait. The Plan is to have at least 4 hobbies and Interests for my project Where there is a representation of me in the hobby's and interests' style for example, one of the hobbies I undertake is Anime character development via traditional media (hand drawn), where there would be a drawn version of me. The same would go for the other hobbies and interests.

The 5 hobbies and Interests

Airsoft Shooting

   

Gaming

Cosplay

 

Art

Photography
 

The Chosen Hobbies and Interests would for the Self portrait are, Cosplay, Gaming, Art, Airsoft Shooting and Photography. However in case the project goes over the 2 minute mark, I plan on only including 4 of the 5 hobbies and interests. The style I want for the representation is to have me undertaking these hobbies. How I plan on jumping from one hobby scene to the next is by having the camera move closer to an extreme close up of What I am doing in that hobby to then move the camera away showing a different hobby. This style will continue until the ending where I have 4 or 5 different versions of myself in respect to the hobbies and interests as they all join to one creating a full me.

All Images aside from the Art section are from Google Images. The Art Images are from my Deviant Art.