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WHY A MOVIE ABOUT SKINHEADS AND PUNKS? There are not so many movies around which focus on young outcasts
and underdogs with the strong ambition to tell an authnetic and true
story about them. Most of the time we see a bunch of ultra-happy, mega-funny,
sexually super-active teens or the extreme opposite: The drug abusing,
violent and criminal "problemchild". We have been looking
for something different: Reality. WHY ARE SOME OF OUR ACTORS NONPROFESSIONALS? The actors had to be absolutely authentic. One has to believe, that
Zottel really lives on the streets, that Koma is a true skinhead and
Janosch is the naive country-site lad. During the long casting process
for Oi!WARNING, we had to realize that it is more than difficult to
find a young professional actor, who is able to play a skinhead or punk
authentic.
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WHY THE USE OF BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY? Not because of the costs: Today black &
white film and the developing-process is even more expensive than the
use of color-film for shooting. We made lots of tests before we decided,
if we should take b&w or color-film We shot a complete scene of
Oi!WARNING in colour and b&w and compared and discussed the results
also with an audience. Black & white photography offered us various
artistic qualities: it monumentalizes and gives the image a pure and
expressive look. It also builds a gap between the image and the reality.
Showing low class people in their average mini-apartments in colour,
may give the picture some kind of a pseudo-docu-touch, we didn't want. |
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