Time flies really fast, it is already Week 12. I felt like documentaries have many different ways to present. And as tutor said, documentaries for media makers are things which are unique to them. Only makers experience the story or the event, then use their ways to present on the screen. If everyone make same documentaries, that are meaningless. Show things which other people have no chance to experience or lessons learnt from others or planet to the audience will be much meaningful. In my point of view of the prompt, recording and present story is a good method to present the environment, but engage and experience personally could also be a good method in the making process. Different from stand on the third perspective, the first perspective recoding can make audience deep engage and feel the ambience which come from the film.

Learning make documentaries, forced me cultivate the ability to observe small things around my life. Through modules, I have read most readings and films showed in class, and most of them helped me know well about how to make documentaries and give me inspiration about creating ideas and themes. Moreover, the readings explained detailed instruction about how to make a documentary which help me improve my making process. Films showed me different kinds of documentaries, contemplation film, desktop documentary.

This semester is really special for all of us. Everyone has to stay at home and experience online course. The constraint for me was the internet and jet lag. But luckily, the jet lag became much easier since the daylight saving time change to the standard time Meanwhile, even though the internet connection not always good, but most of time works, and for presentation, I can record in advance, then send the copy to the tutor. This way decreased many trouble for me. On the other side, because the conditions of COVID-19 in China has become much better, thus I can go out to take clips for my final project. The part I felt worked well might be the idea. In fact, I was supposed to make an archival documentary instead of shooting on my own, but when I came out one day, suddenly came up a idea about documentary. Not only notice big things, but also can show and present small things around us, which was much closer to people daily life, and highly possibility to touch people’s minds.