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.
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.