Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/306644473

Google drive : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1itDJLYiVHZ4HK9XgJQRCGK-PGo6pVvyt

Synopsis:

There is a heaven located right in the CBD of Melbourne where you would be welcomed warmly by the people and the lovable creatures here. That heaven is known as Cat Cafe Melbourne – the Australia’s first cat cafe which offers the customers a cozy and relaxing ambiance to play and pat with several adorable resident cats in not-their-sleeping time. With four years of experience, Cat Cafe Melbourne hopes to raise awareness of the need for rescuing animals. “ Cat Paradise in the city” is a short documentary that not only represents the life of the adopted cats at Cat Cafe Melbourne and the behind stories as well as the difficulties of the cafe since having established but also underscores the importance of adopting a pet from a shelter.

Roles:

Shooting: Zoe, Margaret, Ying, Britney

Audio: Margaret

Music: Ying

Rough Cut: Britney, Margaret

Final Cut & Editing: Zoe

In our documentary “Cat Paradise in the city”, we showed that the first cat café in Melbourne and the story of rescue cat. The first one and the most important intention for this film is adoption cat. We want to encourage people to pay more attention to the rescue cat from our film. For achieving it, we use the cat as main character in the film and put the story of rescue cat as the main line. We use a lot of footage to show the different cats, the special characteristic of cat and the funny action of cat to show the rescue cat. In this way, more and more people will know the rescue cat and they may can help the rescue animals.

Another intention is that introduce this cat café to audience who loves cat. we want to make more person who loves cat to know there are a place in the city where they can spend time and enjoy with cat through our documentary. Thus, we take the bird view footage of city and the surrounding environment of cat café to show the place. And we also put the footage of cat café decoration and internal structure in our film to make audience interested in cat café. Furthermore, show the connection between the animal and the modernized life also our intention. For this intention, we show the footage that costume who comes cat café communicate with cat an also show the cat how to live with human in our documentary. I think we achieve all of our intention that we planned in the beginning.

For our documentary, a variety of interesting shots are makes me proud. We have almost shown the all of cat café and the rescue cat at different angles by using the different footage in our documentary. Especially our attitude for this documentary, we still keep the honest when we shoot and editing because we want to show a real place and true emotion. The media production skill that I want to improve are the shooting skills, the music editing skills and the editing skills.

For the collaboration of this project, I think I got the wonderful teammate, we discuss, shooting, and editing together. We almost like a professional marking media team. I think the collaboration is really good for the media work. The most important that we can share and express our idea, then combine them and make a wonderful work. But the different opinions are also an issue for team work. We need combine the different ideas lead to we need spend more time to meeting and discuss. In this way, we cannot finish our work quickly. In the other hand, this process also can help us make a film better and more diversity.

Other issue we meet it is that pre-plan. Actually, we should have a plan first, then we can shoot and editing. The pre-plan includes what we want to show to audience, what theme we want built in our documentary and what kind of footage we need it. In this way, we can make our film more complete and more structured. However, when we start to make the film, our team ignore this step. So, we waste a lot of time to do some things that useless. We take all kinds of footage that we did not know how to edit because we did not have detailed structure. This is biggest issue in our working process. Fortunately, we notice this problem when we finish the first shooting and we check the footage we have. Then our group meeting immediately and make a detailed plan. Thus, we solve the problem and finish our work.

In this collaboration, I realized that the communicate with each other and effective division of labor are key points for team work. Especially for the effective division of labor. Because everyone has their advantage in different work such as shooting, formats exchange, the audio work and the editing. In the media project collaboration, collaborator should do their job that they are good at. In this way, the work process will be more effectively and more professional. In addition, communication is also important for the team work. we need discuss all the time and share the different ideas. It can make the team more diversity and make the wonderful work.

In my goals, I want to know more and more the styling of the making media, to cooperate with studio member, to find the source of inspiration, to become a producer and creative the media work. I meet all of them in the activity of class or the assignment of studio.

From those work, I learned more professional message about media. For example, what is non-fiction project, what is the Martin Parry’s style, how Molly Dinner produce the documentary and son on. It makes me notice that Learning and understanding different media production styles is a very important part of the media. Thus, if I want to produce a good media work, I need to understand these message first. This is the first challenges for me.

In other way, the biggest challenges are project producing. In the media work, the most difficult one is to decide the theme of your work. There are not topic or subject you can chose from the requirement of assignment. So, I need to ponder and decide by myself. Then, I found the way to overcome this challenge is to observe. I need to pay more attention in the detail of my daily life or tiny things around me and society. I also need to observe this society from the perspective of a third party. Although I may not be doing very well right now, this observation is really help me. In this way, I can find my topic easily than before. And with my observation more sensitive and detailed, I think my project will be more deeply and professional.

The last one is the skill of editing. I think the editing is an important part of the media work. I have never edited a photo in my media course. So, I did not know how to make photo as I want it by the editing in the beginning. This is biggest challenges for me. But I think the editing skills are not improve quickly even though I learn some technical skills for the class. With I can create more media work and better understand and make it, my editing skills will improve and will more mature.