Jiro Dreams of Sushi

• Use of classical music emulates skills and refinement
• begins with monetage of pictures
• talks about work
• close ups of making sushi
• Food critic introduces us to Jiro
• see him moving about city
• entering restaurant
• Sequence about reservations shows eliteness of restaurant 
• Different way of valuing food - fast food only lasts 15 minutes
• Jiro's son introduced in relation to his father
• Talent vs hard work set up
• Value of repitition - sequence of him on the train, opening up shop - his dedication gives meaning
• Archive photos juxtapose with his normalcy
• Talks about his past on a train travelling right to left, as if going backwards
• See how tough he is on kids then see where the toughness comes from - biography
• Jior centred in frame as he talks about how he wouldn't let them go to college
• Japanese succession
• 'I would make sushi in my dreams'
• Slo motion emphasizes the movement of the hands
• fades emphasize repitition of process in montage
• Interview in car with Yoshikazu
• Cold snow gives mystical feel in slo mo
• When interviewing tuna salesman he talks to Yoshikaza but talks about Jiro
• Repitiion of examining tuna fast paced- ease of an expert
• Drum music makes auction more exciting
• Blue emphasized at fish market
• Old man club - takes a while to learn skills
• Always returns to passing down, and tradition, young vs old
• Show cooking while talking about memories
• Communal tlaking in the kitchen
• A long time before actually show a customer eating sushi
• Talks about the way it is served to customers like art
• Details in CUs are reflective of the details Jiro notices
• Show Jiro seeing the customers out
• Sushi conveyr belt shows spread
• Takes 10 yeas to get big tuna - everything takes time
• Slo motion of fish market dumping rubbish - more of everything, easy to throwaway
• Yoshikazu comes with Jiro to hometown as well
• Comes back to Yoshikazu - started with Michelin but Yoshikazu prepared the fish for them
• The lineage is passed on

France's Stolen Children - BBC Newsnight

• Begins with shots of waves
• French voiceover and subtitles
• Drone shots through valleys
• Fades to black as subtitles say 'nothing at all'
• Voiceover introduces her return to Indian ocean island
• Her getting on flight
• Then goes back to her life in Limoges, France, voiceover gives background on her life

A Refugee's Journey: New York, for the First Time

• Published on New Yorker YouTube
• Starts of with shots and diagetic sound of waiting lounge, Louspeaker
• Doors open and people come out - seems like an airport
• Subtitles
• Titles: New York for the first time
• Hla Oo introduced by title
• Don't see his face but his objects first
• See his daily things - studying the dictionary
• Archive footage about burma - news footage and reels show the persecution he would explerience in Burma
• Sit down interview
• Shots of the nieghbourhood - trees, streets, telephone lines
• Him leaving house
• Explain connection between contributors with phone photo
• Hla in the car with old neighbour - lots of close ups
• First time in supermarket, buying coffee, traditional soup
• Male niehgbour playing his traditional song
• Neighbour centre of frame, close ups of hands and face
• Shot of birds then cuts back to Hla in home, waiting, neighbour watches TV - doing different things in one room
• Explains food stamps with titles
• Talking about family, shot of him looking at phone
• Expert talking about how refugees come - 
• Hla showing all his id cards
• Washing up to pray
• View from train
• First trip to New York City in text
• Close up of his face
• Him taking pictures on phone
• Shots of new york square
• Mid then close of this face - same shot but closer
• Sound of male nieghbour playing guitar comes again
• Hla got a job offer ends the film on a positive

It is a slow paced documentary that mirrors the way he has to wait for the VISA process, with moments of him negotiating American and Burmese muslim culture.