Month: October 2016

Week 12 felt like a race for me. I know I should’ve started organising all the videos and plans before, but I didn’t, so pity me. I just finished recording IMCV a couple of days before and now I have to sort through all the clips, and make scripts to align the narration. A friend gave an advice, that I should rename of all the files, so you could organise it with ease. How thankful was I, had it not been renamed, it would take me a minute just to find an image/sound that i wanted to see. Another important organising tool that I learned was marking. I use mark to mark certain scenes that I want to cut into the movie. And sometimes I use marks in the sequence to bookmark chapters, or to put notes, to remind me what I should put around those two videos. It’s really handy and I’m glad to have learned it. The picture above was me spending I don’t know how long to create the most possible coherent narration that I could make.

with a sprinkle of stress because of my other projects, and topped with my interviewee that kept postponing the interview, I would say I was ready to jump off the bridge (figuratively). Because of their busy schedule, my subject of interview from Baitul Ma’mur had to do the interview on the last minute. This gave me a considerable strain because her narration is 50% of the whole interview. But thankfully we did it anyway, and fortunately the interview went quite well. There was some problem with the audio, because some kids were playing in the background, and the frame for that interview was perfect, so changing location was a bad idea. But because of the noise, I had to ask my subject to repeat her answer several times, only to be interrupted by the kids again. We had a pre-interview, so my subject was not very uncomfortable/surprise to answer the question, so it went smoothly. The only thing that I regretted was for some of the questions. I felt like the interview didn’t have the personal touch that I wanted, and it looked too formal sometimes.

Week 10 is interesting. After coming to many festivals i have many potential subjects that I contacted and agreed to be filmed upon, unfortunately I can only start recording around this week. The only best thing I can do now is to create a solid structure and use the materials I already got.  The community that I found rest in Lavernton, called Baitul Ma’mul, an Indonesian muslim community under the Indonesian Muslim Community Victoria (IMCV), and another group called Bethany International Church (BIC). You may ask “why are they all religious groups jason?” It’s because Indonesia is a very religious country. Just look at the first principle of Indonesia’s fundamental politics, Pancasila:

Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa

it means: Belief in the one and only God

Indonesia is a very religious country. It has it’s ups and downs, but I respect it’s integrity. Since my documentary wants to focus on community activities, their religious practice will also be observed, even though not as detailed as the concept of their general community.

Found footages will be important as part of my documentary, as I recall their history and their commitment to the community.

For post-production, I will try to the best of my ability to edit it well. Using music in documentaries is not my forte, as it seems. I am still struggling to incorporate music, and I will ask Kim a lot for help (I’m sorry Kim)

Fun fact: Indonesia is Not a muslim country. Indonesia is a country with muslim as a majority, that is why many people mistook it to be a muslim country. Not trying to implicate anything here, just a fact.

thanks for reading, have a great weekend!