Week8 project development

 In this week, I finished the part 1of my split screen project. I went to the center of Melbourne, and shoot different symbolic sceneries, architectures of this city. Such as the graffito street in Melbourne, that is so interesting and artistic. In the shooting process, I found that is a little boring if I only shoot the graffito, so I tried to capture some movements cooperating with that artistic graffito. For instance, I captured one traveler who is taking the photo in the graffito street. In addition, I shoot the church near the finders square and the carriage in Swanson Street. Then I edit those things to three screens in one shot, so that they construct a space. For the church, I used different perspectives and position to shoot it. One is the low angel close up shoot for a part of it. Another is the wide shoot for the whole of it. And for the carriage, I have to say I am so lucky, because I fortunately capture a couple who taking one carriage passing by the camera. Indeed, they talk with camera. In order to show the life style of Melbourne, I went to the area of Yarra River, in here I shot the street artist, the people who relaxed on the grass, the people who are boating. Honestly, those shots are shoot without plan, I just got inspiration when I seeing it.

Actually, through this filming, I deeply realized that how important about the “time” for documentary. Even, I already have a storyboard for this part shooting, but in the real filming process, I still shoot lots of unexpected scenes. So, in documentary filming, we are inquired to capture the scenes accurately and quickly. For example, we should quickly confirm the suitable exposure and good composition when we found any good scene. I thought I got improvement in those aspects trough this shooting.