Seagull’s Diary:  by Litian Shi (Leonard)

This is a  confession of a seagull who impair by human activities. Litian Shi Exhibit the happiness of seagulls having fun in their small island and conflict with the sadness of the seagull after it lost its home and became a prisoner of the city.

Acknowledgment:

RMIT University acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations as the traditional owners of the land on which the University stands. RMIT University respectfully recognises Elders both past and present.

 

Nowadays, more and more animals are migrated into city and live with city, some member of street animals are not afraid of people and have fun with pedestrian. In the other side, people do not mind share this city with their new friends, but today I am are going to look at what is behind that. Think about why they will move their home to city if they still have their home in the wild. I am going to analyze human activities and different kind pollution is affecting the animals and produce more street animals. Nowadays the population growth fast and people net more space for accommodate the living demand for people. So, people destroy forest to build up cities, more and more industries. These human activities make more and more wild animals losing their home and migrate to other place or change their habits.

The character of my film is a seagull which is one of street animal that live peaceful with people, but it does not mean seagull belong to the city. They more like prisoner in the city because they lost their live space. I want to use this story to tell people what they did is wrong and what they changed other creatures live as a vigilance.

 

 Prompt:

For me, instead of calling it a story I more willing to call it a journey because when people watch or listen my story is going to be a part of my story. It is more like to leading the audience through it and hear and view the story. The journey is letting them take an eye from another way on this plant we living to show them the detail the did not noticed ever in their daily life. “A story is the narrative, or telling, of an event or a series of events, crafted in a way to interest the audience members, whether they are readers, listeners or viewers” (Sheila Curran Bernard 2011, 15)

In the other side, the documentary is like recording of lifestyle. It is helping things that cannot talk to speak out and let audience notice them. The environment is one of good example, environment do not tell you it is harmed but that is not the reason you can ignore the damage you made on it.