For this semester I am fortunately in the studio ‘documenting the environment’ which I am always interested in. In last semester I’ve been research on Agnes Varda’s work for my final project and I found interests in different type of documentaries, thus in this semester I’m so looking forward to study and make documentaries.
Due to the travel ban I was absent for the first weeks class, however after reading through the all class content I reflected and learned a lot. Firstly to make a documentary it is necessary to consider what you really want to present and in what way to present. As it said documentary is not an issue or subject, I considered that the documentary could be something which express the the positive emotions and to resonate with society with the real experiences, though I used to be taught that documentary is the film to tell you something (an animal, a type of people or a process of a thing) exactly.
In this week’s class I was so impressed by the trailer of film ‘2040’ and it gave me a lot of inspirations. The environment in which humans live like city view and natural environment were intuitively presented in the film, the interviews and voiceover are used to show the film’s theme of impact and inspire the audience (2040 – Official Trailer, 2019). I really love the positive power which is given by this environment film, and that’s also what I want to do with my work in the future.
For my short film this week I tried to show the natural and city views around my life in Melbourne, and in this way to communicate with myself how I think about this environment. I kept the original sound from the raw footages and almost kept the original images of the raw footages as well, in this case to show the completely real life environment of mine. Additionally the film was in a slow pace in order to leave more space and time for me to consider the environment around me. However to reflect my short film I think I need to think deeper of the relationship between me and the environment, bring the right emotions to audience and make it more interesting to watch, moreover to add some captions or voiceover might be a good choice to make the film more like my style and understandable.
Bibliography:
2040 – Official Trailer. 2019. [film] Directed by D. Gameau. That Sugar Film.