Week 12 | Reflection on the film

What did you want to achieve in your film? What did you learn about the topic of food you focussed on? Nowadays, the word ‘vegan’ appears more and more often in Australia, such as on the menu of some restaurants, the protest of animal organizations, people around us, and etc. However, it is not a […]

W11 | Reflect on The Editing Process II

To reflect on our final documentary project, I search ‘How to make a documentary?’ online to check it step by step and find out our problems in detail. Story Structure As Jesse mentioned that filmmakers are supposed to structure their story before the filming process. We did divide our documentary into different parts roughly. However, […]

W9| Reflection on the reading about editing

Editing as a significant part of the film-making process always been seen as the second chance to ‘shoot’ the film. This reading provides some helpful editing techniques systematically. Instead of fiction film having distinct principles of good or bad shots, the documentary is far less clear. (Fox 2017) From my perspective, a good shot of the documentary is […]

W8| Reflection on Sound

Part A: Reflect on how sound can be used in the documentary. Example: The Derby by Remington Smith. This documentary really inspires me a lot with its unique skills, especially on the sound side. Leave space for the audience to imagine The first twenty seconds of the documentary is a completely black frame with background […]

Assignment 2 | Part A Submission

The link of the documentary exercise: https://vimeo.com/333693418 Basically, this video is a combination of 5 exercises. I choose a portion from each. This blog is going to describe the purpose of the example and its relation to our final documentary. (some content are similar to the title card in the video) Expository mode: The city […]