Theme/Meaning：

Melbourne for me is a developing city, the population growth rapidly. It is undeniable, the Chinese occupied a large number of population, as a international student from China, I have tried 80% Chinese restaurant in city. It is obviously, in such a city, more frequent replacement of the restaurants. So what is the meaning of diet? Is this just for living？or the profit for the restaurant owner？（could be voice over）

Sum up: The significance of Chinese cuisine is heritage and the philosophical attitude toward life.

Shooting Content：

•Street scene： Put it in at beginning or ending ，to introduce the background. Where(Mel)    what is my topic(Chinese food/ China town)  where the main restaurant (bourke street)

•The restaurant shooting: the shooting of interior，environment and the atmosphere there/ the shooting of how to make the cook(cold rice noodle and Chinese hamburger)

•Interview：with owner and customers

Shooting style：

•Snapshot：used as introducing

•Slow motion：used as food shooting

•Focus and defocus superposition use

•Interview: camera + recorder

Post production：

•Editing

•Voice over

•Subtitle

•Music

So the two following week i would put focus on shooting these things. The last week would be editing.

主题/意义：墨尔本在我看来是一个发展中的城市，日新月异人口也以暴增的速度增长，不可否认，华人占人口的很大比例，作为来留学的中国留学生我几乎吃过city 80%的中餐馆，不难发现，在这样一座城市里，餐厅的更换更是频繁。那么饮食对于在西方国家的中国人来说是什么呢？解决温饱？还是餐厅主人盈利的手段？（旁白）总结:饮食对于我来说更多的是传承。

拍摄内容：

•街景    主要放在开头或者结尾，介绍背景。发生的城市（墨尔本）以及我所要拍摄的主题（唐人街，中餐）和拍摄主要地点（长安人家，bourke street）

•餐厅拍摄  主要拍摄餐厅室内环境，室外环境，和制作食物的特写

•采访 采访餐厅的老板和顾客（记得写参访稿）

拍摄手法：

•快镜头: 用于介绍背景

•慢镜头：用于拍摄食物制造过程

•对焦和失焦的叠加运用，使画面有层次、制造美感

•采访：摄像机+录音机

拍摄后期：

•剪辑画面

•旁白

•字幕

•音乐

细节（模仿其他纪录片）

https://youtu.be/JJOnSIefLQw?t=1439

This what I expect of my film. A normal documentary. My final project would contain three parts. The street scene, the interview and some close up shoot (including restaurant and food or customers) Document 72 Hours is a good reference for my final project.

The street scene included some shoot from swanston st which has a huge Crowd and of cause China town(some close up shoots of restaurant in order to introduce the topic–Chinese food). The second part would be a introduce of a Chinese Restaurant which i have asked to the the owner. I would take some shoot of the interior and interview of the owner/customers. Some close up shoot of how to make the food would be took at the second part in the restaurant.

Yesterday i took some shoot on the street, the result is higher than i was expected. So this week i will capture some street scene like the one i showed in this clip, for example the snapshot(which could be used at the begin of the film to introduce the background just like many documentaries) and slow motion(can describe how to make a meal, i will put it in the second part) also i try to make the shoot sometimes out of focus then sometime focus. The effect is quite good.

So i make the plan of the following weeks.The following two weeks i would put focus on shooting the street scenes and interview, to make the shoots settle down, the last week would be focusing on some editing stuffs.

And last week i try to help with others project, xiaochen who is from Robin’s class, his is doing a drama, i helped with the audio, we meet some technique stuffs. This is sometime really disturb us. Hope i will be fine with it.

When doing a documentary (or half of drama)about food is quite easy to entry but it is a difficult process. I have watched some of food documentaries for example: A Bite of China (2012)，The little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo (2012),Noodle Road: Connecting Asia’s Kitchens(2008).Even they all good, but they are not MY documentary, like tutors said when i first present my idea, what do you want to present in your film, the beauty of Food or some Perspective. It might be very important for me to do a film—“only my Film". The clip i am showing below is a fragment from Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) could be a guid for my final project.

https://youtu.be/3g5KIuavNTU

This clips shows both the interview and how character making sushi, which is my thinking for my film. I would take some shoots in the restaurant just like this clips.

I found that there is a interview in the first minutes，and the director combine it quite good with 3 different forms, first of it is a pan of books then the interview.I like the following form of it which is the interview as a voiceover then the vision is some other shoots or just picture. This is quite normal in the documentary however i was never realized. This is which we called the voiceover is loyal with the picture.

I also like the scenes at 1:55′ with the focus changes in such a short time. And the following scenes are contain lot of close up shoots which is popular in food documentary, and i would follow this kind of method.  When  they doing the cooking staff i just put some music as background to leave so space for audiences “breathing".  I found there are 2 main position for this scene, this also could be a reference.  One of the most important method used in this scene is slow motion, i also found it in other documentaries.

My presentation will outline where my inspiration comes from and  introduce the background of my idea then  i’m gonna show you my shooting plan at the end.

So start from the idea inspiration: which extremely attracting me after i watched a BBC documentary  called little paris kitchen, the character in the film Rachel Khoo uses her own way to teach the audience how to cook French cuisine in a quick and easy ways. Then i found why not doing a film about food? It is a good opportunity to introduce Chinese food, moreover i believe the food reflects the culture, so i start researching.

Here is a quick guide of Chinese food :The staple foods of Chinese cooking include rice, noodles, vegetables, sauces and seasonings. Due to china is a big nation, different parts has different  Diet culture.for example the people who came from north of china would prefer noodle opposite the people from south of china may choose rice, this is because of the climb. In addition, Chinese cuisine includes styles originating from the diverse regions of China, there are  8 culinary traditions. There are Cantonese, Szechuan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Zhejiang  Fujian and Hunan cuisines.The first four would  be the main culinary cuisine, except Shandong, others are all south of  China.

Now I am gonna show you one of my favorite movie  Eat Drink Man Woman which directed   by Ang lee in 1994 and related to my topic, it might guide a little bit more about Chinese food culture. I like sound record in this fragment.

In this film, Ang lee discussed his own point of view with the relationship between  family members, and food as a tool of it. Also， There is a proverb saying：Food is the paramount necessity of the people in China. Ancient Chinese connected food with Philosophy of life. It lead to my curiosity. My final project film3 would be a journey of exploring. So I plan to do the thing as step of each week.

I like to share with my new idea on film 3 final project, doing a dram i’m rather like doing a documenter, especially when i saw a BBC documentary “The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo (2012)” This documentary quite inspire me. Then i start thinking, why not make a documentary is about what we eat? My point of views is FOOD always represent  the culture and

due to my special background(international student) I found it would be more interesting to excavate what international students are eating. In addition, China is really a big country, different part would have totally different style of cooking. At the same time, our diet habit is also different from Western’s. I would like to find out how Chinese student made their meal and it could be his/her hometown dish.

About the shot.

I even think about how to shot, it could be star with the scene of several scene in Melbourne City

to introduce the background, then i would put a shot interview of the character, then i am gonna track shooting the whole process of he/she make a dish.

The places might including: Vic market, super market, tram..

My reference

There are also some good work i can consult with，for example  the large series documentary which has a huge succeed before：A Bite of China （2012）.

Eat Drink Man Woman（1994） Ang Lee ’s early work which is one of my favorite film，i like the begin of the chef cooking, sound recording are good and the scene of edit is fluency.