I watched a cat documentary World’s cat walk filmed by a Japanese filmmaker Mitsuaki Iwago before I chose this course. At that time, I got a goal that make a cat documentary. During this semester, inspired by the shooting style of Mitsuaki Iwago, I made a documentary focused absolutely on the daily life of domestic […]
Screener text: Inspired by the shooting style of Mitsuaki Iwago, I made a documentary focussed absolutely on the daily life of domestic cats. Critical to my investigation and expression was the development of an idiosyncratic Japanese voice over; the cadence and poetry of which informs the project’s overall rhythm, tone and sympathy with my subject’s […]
The class on this week mainly focus on two important things to me : collaboration and lighting. COLLABORATION: As I did ‘The scene in cinema’ last semester, I think I am a skilled staff. I clearly know each member’s job and how to achieve each member’s job. During this week’s collaboration, I think we didn’t […]
Today’s class we watched plenty of interview documentary. Robin mentioned that mostly student wants to do interview while given the project. Just like mine project, when the first time I told Robin I will doing a cats documentary this semester, he asked am I gonna interview their master? The answer is NO. The reason is it’s very […]
This week I keep shooting my project. PRE-PRODUCTION: 1.Before shoot, I contacted 8 cats and one dog with their master, got their permission and check their schedule. 2. Told them where am gonna shoot, when and what I am gonna shoot also what things should they need to prepare. (Like cats toys, food, etc..) 3.Inspect […]
After the presentation, I think the sketch film was good, it’s very clear to show audience what I am gonna do in the rest of the seamster. The content and attitude of the voice over also shows how my work will be. I think i need more shooting to capture cats unique moments and I […]
My inspiration was from a cat documentary named World’s cat walk, from Mitsuaki Iwagō, a Japanese filmmaker. I was strongly attracted by his 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 […]
I shoot a short cats documentary imitate Iwago’s shooting style. The most different area between Iwago and me is the environment. Iwago was more focus on the cats living in nature, mine is more focus on the domestic cats. Before I shooting it, lots of issues I thought might happen. Such as lights, sounds and […]
Mitsuaki Iwagō, a Japanese filmmaker shooting cats documentary. His work only has one character, cats all over the world. Without any lights or tripods, he lies on the ground to shoot cats horizontally. Without any story lines and dialogue, and the all of his work with the Japanese accent voice over, the whole documentary makes […]
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 […]