Images and sounds are essential in documentary making, it interacts to the audience about the subject by sending the message from visual content and style from the documentary. Depends on this method, I found that in our group documentary has present in some of the scenes.
According to Duckworth statement, images do not have the power to persuade, it is the way that associates with the message, amplifies its effects, and transfer to the audience. In our documentary, we are focus on the character’s work lives. Therefore, to present his occupation, we have taken the scenes of his bike which have the parcel bag in iconic colour and the name of the company. The bike does not have any meaning without those. As the brand’s name and parcels are the key messages group the scenes.
Above the statement, the role of sounds could say as a stimulating factor in the film. Such as sound effect and character’s dialogue, these are the common sound used in documentary making. The article by the New York Film Academy mentioned sounds add a powerful layer of meaning to what we see on screen, creating an emotion that makes the story more effective. Again in group documentary, we add the interviewee dialogue on to the scene when the character was working and with the sound of the environment behind. In order to create an atmosphere of working and how they feel to it. However, it is important to measure the volume of each soundtrack.
Overall, our documentary has taken great footage on the part of image work, we summarized the conveying and representative factors in one clip as complete as possible to make the audience feel more involved to the film. Sounds are focus on integrating the emotion and narrate the story, this is the part I think we should learn how to make the track more emotional.