It is challenging for me to study documentaries because I have not got any experience of this genre of films, hence everything I have learnt in this semester are fresh and interesting to me. I have mentioned in my previous blogs about that I would like to study about the basic modes and shooting techniques of documentary films, and also to get more experience of filming throughout this semester. After the works we have done, I think I have almost mastered and achieved the original objectives for myself. Our group used two different ways and styles to make the films which are both explainable documentaries for our two final projects. One of them is relatively formal interview with having the interviewee sitting down and have a little chat with us, and the other one about animal caring with the interviewee walking and showing us around the farm while we randomly ask her questions, hence to make the atmosphere this piece of film looks more relaxing and real. On the other hand, We used jump cut on both films to create a easiness feeling to the audience.

Through studying of the semester in this studio as well as our experience of filming , I got to understand about the concept of the topic of foods. Our topic is to initiate people to focus on animals protection, and try to persuade people to reducing farm animal killing, which make me to reconsider about my personal food taste and habits, too. From presentations of other groups’ project and the school exhibition with showing all of the trailers, we have got more knowledges on the topic of foods, especially to controlling eating and connections between homesick and food preference. We all did a good job in this studio in the semester.