I think the most important thing for nonfiction media is authenticity. It just expresses the real things honestly, without false imagination. “In nonfiction writing, you’re revealing a world; in fiction, you’re constructing one,” (Kathleen, 2016). I think this sentence also applies to movies. The screen and language of the movie are showing a place, a character, and an era, to build a real-world, which can not confuse imagination and facts. In my video, there are screen recordings of interviewees while they are broadcasting live and shots of interviewees when they are broadcasting live on their mobile phones. This way is more intuitive than text description to show what happened in the real world, achieving a visual effect. This screen can connect the audience with the interviewee and make the audience feel involved. Instead of just listening to or reading the text narrative.

There is also shooting of the environment around the interviewee’s apartment. There is a shopping mall, pharmacy, other apartments next to it, and the same piece of the sky. The scene is full of a sense of life, and when the interviewee is walking on the stairs with graffiti, the audience can see the interviewee step by step to the highest. Feel the real-life state of the interviewee, and get closer to the audience‘s life.

In the video, there is also a scene of the interviewee watching the night scene on the rooftop. The interviewee is looking down at busy streets, brightly lit cities, and looking up to the distance are the most real-world feedback. Although the sky is dimmed, the lights on the street and the lights from the windows of every family show an immersive sense of reality. Later in the discussion with Rohan and feedback, I decided to keep the real-life voice in this scene. For example, the whistle of a car, the sound of a car driving from far to near, and the sound of traffic lights prompt. Through the design of these sounds, a sense of immersion is created, and at the same time, the mood expressed can be understood from the scene and sound. May make the audience think about what I am doing now? Is there something that I have always insisted on? Maybe is lying on the sofa and playing on the phone, talking about life with friends, or persisting in remembering to give up? In the process of making nonfiction media, I pay particular attention to the transmission of realism. If you deviate from reality, it may destroy the sense of experience.

Reference:

Kathleen, G 2016, ‘Creating Reality in Fiction Writing’, Penguin Random House, February 2016.