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Category: Documenting The Environment
Week Twelve: Finalising & Reflection
How did you address the prompt: How can we make documentary which engages in new ways of representing and experiencing the environment? One thing I really tried to play up was an immersive experience. I tried to craft a lot of sound design into the film, and areas that I let breathe within the film without […]
Week Eleven: Crafting The Edit
I have a rough cut of my edit done, I’m fairly happy with the visual layout and I’m currently working on sound design and recording narration. It’s sitting at 3:30 at the moment, and I’d like to expand on that up to around 4:30, so I’m trying to source some more relevant footage and seeing […]
Week Ten: Writing The Documentary
Script; You know, when I’m in the ocean, I’ve never felt such tension between being significant and being completely insignificant. I grew up on the east coast, the sound of crushing waves were never far, and the salt air would season my every meal. I would spend hours every week staring out over the […]
Week Nine: Materiality & The Environment
I struggled to come up with something for this. I tried multiple different things and was never particularly happy with the outcome. Below is one of four different experiments that I took and edited out. I was happy with aesthetically most, but it doesn’t exactly line up with my made documentary. But, it does use […]
Week Eight: Sound Design
The narration is just from riffing, so it’s not overly polished script-wise. I’ve got some light compression and reverb on the narration to help fill out my voice. I really enjoy playing around with audio, I’ve been a musician for way too long so sound always excites me. The Atmos and SFX are a […]
Week Seven: Story & Structure
PART A I think one of the things I generally overlook is definitely characters within stories, and how a strongly developed character can really influence the power within film and documentary. So I really liked the Illustrated Radio (2002) story, that spoke about what isn’t an overly particularly great story at the core. But […]
Assignment 2 Links
Week Four: https://www.mediafactory.org.au/zacharycause/2020/04/09/week-four-desktop-documentary/ Week Five: https://www.mediafactory.org.au/zacharycause/2020/04/17/week-five-the-interview/ Week Six: https://www.mediafactory.org.au/zacharycause/2020/04/13/week-six-archival-found-footage/
Week Six: Archival//Found Footage
This week’s project focuses on the use of archival and found footage. My first plan was to do a short history of agriculture documentary but I struggled to find a good timeline of archival to do so. After perusing archive.org for a ridiculously long time, I decided that my best bet would be to play […]
Week Five: The Interview
This week was focusing on interviewing for documentaries. I like interviewing people, I like to listen and learn, and as an introvert, I’m always happy to take the backseat in a conversation and ask questions to provoke more words from my subject. I was really struggling to find inspiration for adding still images to the […]