Log #8

27/2/17 On Friday, my group went to film more of Terri’s interview and also extra establishing shots for us to use in our documentary. I arrived at the edit suite to meet them in the afternoon to work on the editing of the documentary’s rough…

Log #7

WEEK 4 – 24/1/17 & 26/1/17(PUBLIC HOLIDAY) So our group was pretty busy catching up with the filming and interviewing over the weekend and on Monday as well. On Tuesday, we decided to focus on putting together all the footage we had so far. We…

Log #6

19/1/17 Ceyda arranged a time for our group to meet up with Terri for a chat and coffee on Wednesday. Unfortunately only Ceyda, Meita, Arfi and I could make it to the meet up. We decided to meet Terri at Melbourne Central at 10am and…

Log #5

PB3 PITCH & PROPOSAL     For our pitch presentation, we introduced the idea of our documentary which was our vision to show the audience a story filled with warmth and color by showing the story of a “female willy wonka” (Terri) who works at…

Log #4

WEEK 3 – 17/1/17 & 19/1/17 On week 3, it was time to present each group’s pitch and hand in our proposals. Before that, we had a mini lecture on interviewing again and also a mock interview exercise. Rohan told taught us a few editing…

Log #3

WEEK 2 10/1/17 & 12/1/17 Week 2 started off with Rohan giving us a mini lecture on observational filming. We watched a few documentaries such as To Be And To Have by Nicolas Philibert (2008), The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris (1988) and Geri…

Log #2

  READING : TIM CRESSWELL At the end of the week, we were given readings by Rohan from chapter 1 and 5 from Tim Cresswell’s book, Place: An Introduction. The reading was to help us study, understand and build our knowledge on the notion of Place and…

Log #1

WEEK 1 – 3/1/17 & 5/1/17 This summer, i was required to enroll in Media 2 for this semester which was a summer studio called RECORDING PLACE : Location based documentary practice taught by Rohan Spong. According to studio brief, the studio aimed to: improve location filming…