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Uveghes Paula · Junior Data inscrierii: 10/Apr/2010 Mesaje: 1

MY HEALING JOURNEY: SEVEN YEARS WITH CANCER.
Production: Canada 1998
Duration/ Durée: 46 min
Language/ Langue: English

Director/Editor:.................................Joe Viszmeg
Narrator..............................................Joe Viszmeg
Additional Editing:............................Dominique Fortin
Editorial Consultant:.........................John Kramer
Avid Operator/Editing Associate: …Brenda Ferning
Cinematography:................................Peter Winstorf
Additional Cinematography:..............Bob Riddel
Camera Assistants:............................Kathy Deugou
Sean Moore
Alan Solz
Home movies and stills courtesy of the Viszmeg family: Erna Dominey and
Eli Rich.
Sound Recording:..............................Garell Clark
Jamie Kidd
Rene Portrebenko
Original Music:..................................John Millard
Incidental Music:...............................Calvin Cairns

Musicians: …....................................John Hess
John Millard
David Woodthead.
Written and performed by Paul Jarrett from “Songs From the Serious” courtesy of Open Faced Records.
Sound Editor:......................................Downy Karvonen
Assistant Sound Editor:.....................Shereela Chakrabarttsy
Sound Mix:............................................Paul Sharpe
Sina Oroomchi
Special thanks to:.................................Viszmeg families-Eate & West
Babcock Family
Dominey Family
Stella's Ibterviews: Nicole Devique
Dr. Albert Geeraert Dr. R. Feinsinger
Dr. Jieskovsky Dr. Doug Ginter
Dr. Lawrence Martine Dr. David Mador
Dr. Peter Venner Dr. Carle Simonton
Dr. Arnold Volth
Dr. Jenice Young
Production Supervisor:...................................Kelly Isaac
Studio Administration:....................................Margaret Smith

“ This documentary is about Edmonton film maker Joe Viszmeg and his battle with cancer. In 1991, Viszmeg was diagnosed with adrenal cancer and he wouldn't live through the year. Four years later, he made in “My own Time-Diary of a Cancer Patient”. In “My Healing Journey: Seven years with cancer”, he tells the story of how he survived the roller coaster of a deadly disease. He died in 1999.”

Documentary analysis

The documentary is focused on several elements: -the disease, Joe the character involved, and the people involved in his life: family and medical staff, who help him overcome his illness.
The characters are real because the subject of the documentary is a real one.
The scenario is based on real events.
The music in the documentary plays no role in influencing the audience.
The place where the action takes place is a real one : Joe's home, the hospital and the same places where he performs different activities: jogging, the forest where he spends his time thinking about life.
There are no special effects, only sanitar procedures for treating cancer are presented along with information on cancer and its effects on Joe's body.
The documentary is not running in a straight line because there are images from 1998, when Joe is in the hospital combined with images from 1991, when he discovers he suffers from cancer, and there are also same images where his family activities are presented.
We cannot say if Joe was wearing makeup but we guess he was in order to hide his pale face.
Shots qnd Framing:
the medium close-up
the close-up
detail shot.
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Grand_Shaman · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 112

Ms Paula,

Could you do something about the horrid spelling which lies here in full public display???

I mean anyone can access this forum and, by judging from your writing sample, they would get a terrible impression about our course...

C'mon...