Module 3A : ETHICS CHARTER

  1. Turn the camera off at the request of the participant (Rachel Boynton, DOC NYC, 2018).
  2. Show the participant the finished film before the public (Rachel Boynton, DOC NYC, 2018).
  3. Love the people that you film. (Rachel Boynton, DOC NYC, 2018).
  4. Be mutual respect
  5. Communicate before interview
  6. protect each other

 

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REFERENCES:

 

DOC NYC PRO: Casting Case Studies 2016, streaming video, DOC NYC, New York, viewed 18 November 2018, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bndwq27kkjc>.

 

Module 2A

According to these scrawl, we can see this collection of like-subjects show us the culture of Melbourne. Everyone can express their idea on the wall, it also becomes a landmark building of Melbourne. Graffiti, a street art, has changed in Melbourne, becoming a highly praised cultural phenomenon and one of the symbolic art forms in Melbourne.
However, the expansion of art seems to be beyond control. When the city’s graffiti culture has been passed on orally as an important reason for attracting foreign tourists to visit, the government began to publicize these behavioral arts on the stage.

Melbourne, as the capital of art, is full of graffiti in alleys and corners as well as in galleries of magnificent scale. Melbourne is famous for its many small alleys. You can cross the whole city without having to go on the main road. Street art is becoming one of the most attractive attractions for tourists in Melbourne.

Graffiti art makes Melbourne’s old city more hippy and street style, and the colorful alleys vividly express Melbourne’s unique style.
Most people are glad to find a beautiful painting on the side wall of their house. Some owners of street restaurants even pay famous graffiti artists to decorate the outside walls of their restaurants.

We say that the artistic atmosphere of a city is strong, not only those paintings of white snow in spring, but also a touch of color deep into the folk, just like the music in the concert hall and the singers of street artists can merge into a chord. In the alleys of the city, the Fitzroy District in the northeast of the city, on the wall along the train, everyone can draw a brush. Every painting is about the diversity and tolerance of Melbourne. Films are taken here, and new people are taken here. These graffiti are unofficial city business cards and lively dancing cultural elements. They are everywhere, and in every occasional glimpse, they bring another kind of prosperity with various colors, which always shocks the heart.

Reflect on the class materials in Module 1A

Compare with ‘How to Make Breakfast – The Victorian Way’ and ‘Great Depression Cooking – The Poorman’s Meal’, they are two totally different kind of way and for different people. The first video Mrs Crocombe is busy making breakfast for Lord and Lady Braybrooke in the kitchens of Audley End House and Gardens. The music and frame are combine together that makes people feel artistic conception. The second video is 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression. The frame of this video is fuzzy without background music. I think the first one have a commercial interest or endorse a product/organization. However, the second video convey to us about the real world. It contains vitality of life so it is a better representation of the real world than the other.

Reflect on this weeks film (F for Fake)

The whole film has a strong sense of personal awareness, and the comments on the events in the film are also subjective, without the participation of third-party opinions. The most exhausting thing is that the director has been holding the audience’s nose forward. Compared with other documentaries, this film is quite aggressive in the way of discussing or guiding the audience to accept their opinions after restoring the incident. While telling stories, the director is monologue while commenting; the development and rhythm of the stories serve the commentary completely. Because of the director plays an important role in narrative, the audience has to pay a lot of attention to the director, and because the director’s narrative has a strong subjective will, it is quite difficult to understand. The audience must focus on understanding the director’s words and intentions in order to keep up with the rhythm of the film. He created fake paintings all his life and sold them to famous art museums all over the world. From Europe to America, Chicago to Philadelphia, he had fake “famous paintings”. One of his brilliance is that he always forged a painting that the painter had never painted, rather than copying a painting, according to the style of a famous painter. Two, he traded with any curator or collectors in person, cash transactions, without leaving a certificate. So, in the end, if he hadn’t jumped out and admitted himself, no one would have known that the famous paintings worth hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars came from his pen.