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Title: FIRST REELS INTERVIEW: Heather Banks, Profanity Speaks Louder

Reference number: 8534

Date: 1993

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Description: Raw interview footage with director Heather Smith, concerning her short film PROFANITY SPEAKS LOUDER, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

Credits: [camera Stephen O'Donnell
sd. Stuart Major]

Shotlist: Raw interview footage with director Heather Smith, concerning her short film PROFANITY SPEAKS LOUDER, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

Discusses:- In making this documentary she was more interested in illustrating swearing rather than just getting people to explain it. The film raises questions about the power of swear words, the rhythm of language and accent, delivery of language, lyrical swear words, finding out where language is going and oral tradition. Warning to viewers that some may find it offensive due to the bad language. The professor who features in the film - an American, an 'old beatnik' who manages to talk about swearing without actually swearing! Gordon and Sandy were set up in Laurieston Castle in rather regal surroundings, they then drank port and talked, this was juxtaposed with the usual pub banter. Three day shoot.