Here is a video I want to show.It is a documentary film (named as World cat, from Mitsuaki Iwagō, a Japanese film maker.

I was strongly attracted by the documentary film at my first watching it. I am surprised at shooting style of Iwagō. There is only one character in his shots, namely cats all over the world. Without any flashlights or tripods, he lies prostrate on the ground forever to look at cats horizontally. Without any story lines and dialogue, I am immersed in it with the soothing music.

Therefore, I decide to shoot a documentary film about cat in the rest five weeks, to record their moments of life. Just like people, cats have different emotions and body language, which I will show through shoots. It likes an interview documentary film to cats, but differently, I will not interview their masters about their name, hobbies, or interests, which is very boring. I want to reflect the communication between me and cats, or even cats and the camera. They will not feel out of place, because they are the character.

In order to achieve the goal, my thoughts are as follows:

1. I will contact my friends with cats to inquiry whether I can shoot their cats, within 10 cats.
2. Select filming locations. Seaside, parks, and streets; shoot how can cats show their emotions in different occasions.
3. Consider problems may meet in site shooting, such as weather for location shooting or light for indoor shooting. I will observe the shooting place in advance, to see whether light is needed. I need a quiet occasion, avoiding excessive noise.
4. I need shooting a mass of fragments and then editing them. I will consider devices and time schedule, so that I will formulate a detailed time arrangement.

On the whole, I think that it is very hard to shoot a documentary film. I will watch more documentary films of Mitsuaki Iwagō, to analyze and to learn his shooting skills and post editing, and then to shoot by myself.