5B Reflection

Our crew were trying our best and generally satisfied with corporation of this piece of short  documentary film assignment work. I would like to say that our strength is the perfectly collaboration within the crew member, we were all passionate, creative, and the most importantly, every of us could solve the problem with flexible ways […]

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A2: OBSERVATIONAL FILM

For this assignment, I have tried various cinematography techniques during my experiments and then made this short piece of observational montage film. I used montage with a few shots with different sights as well as colors in them for my opening scene. Hence it flows nicely with the overlapping background music. To avoid a relatively dull […]

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W4 : ETHICS CHARTER’

Turn the camera off at the request of the participant (Rachel Boynton, DOC NYC, 2018). Show the participant the finished film before the public (Rachel Boynton, DOC NYC, 2018). Love the people that you film. (Rachel Boynton, DOC NYC, 2018). << continue to add items here >> 4. Anticipate the interviewer’s concerns and reservations 5. […]

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GET THE BALL ROLLING

WHY I CHOSE THIS STUDIO? WHAT WOULD I LIKE TO LEARN IN THIS STUDIO? By undertaking the course, Real to Real is the studio that I believe can improve the skills in shooting the documentary in my studies and future career. Likewise, I’m interested in studying film shooting. Real to real is different from fiction films. […]

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week 12

I really loved working in the group with Jula, Jenica, Rain, and Zoe. We really enjoyed the process of making the documentary film. Sometimes we spent a bit too much time joking with each other, but I am really glad that work with them. Towards the end of this term, I believe that i improve […]

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week11+

We almost done our two documentaries. The most significant issue we have is that we’ve got too many footage and the interviewees were talking too much and something they said are repetitive. Therefore we have to cut down a lot of talking to reduce the length of the interview and we need leave some space […]

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week 10

All of the shooting has been finished this week. The evaluation for our footage that we filmed for the documentary was well-planned. Mostly, we have everything we wanted to show in the documentary but we realised that it’s tough to edit as we have too many footage. For now, we already have a rough framework […]

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week7

Week 7: Each group did the pitch this week and there are some feedback we got below: – topic is too big -no interviewees yet – context too much Actually, our group did a lot of research and prepared too many context for the topic we chose so that we talked more research in our […]

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week 9:

I think the previous research is very important for documentary filming. For example, in terms of sound collection, in the early stage, the director should be aware of the possible performance of the live sound during the research – what subjects should be filmed in the film, what kind of life and living conditions they […]

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