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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week 8

Take the Chinese food documentary A Bite of China as the example, it plays an important role in the creation of the film. It is an important aspect of the documentary to convey authenticity and express emotion, to tell the story and to control the rhythm. In each episode of 8-9 stories, the director will […]

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week 6:

Picture language is a kind of narrative method that uses various factors such as light effect, tone and colour, and stimulates the effects of sight and hearing. It mainly has functions such as narrative background, message transmission, explanation of events and sublimation. It can smoothly connect two pictures, and transform the composition of the picture, […]

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week 5:

The production of high-quality films must be fully planned. Before the filming, we should make detailed planning of the interview idea, problem design and interviewee selection of the whole film. The more the pre-planning is in place, the more labor-saving and smoother the later shooting. The determination of the interview idea. The interview idea has […]

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week 4:

The form of structure is as important to the creation of a TV documentary as building a house. In the selection of the structural form, it is necessary to find the most suitable structural form according to the different contents and different themes reflected in the film, so as to be tailored. Common TV documentary […]

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week 3 :

Https://vimeo.com/channels/loadingdocs In this documentary, Logan Williams showed concern for the ecology of New Zealand’s rivers. Under the invasion of Didymo, New Zealand’s rivers were destroyed. We saw the importance of ecological protection. In fact, ecological protection is vital to food. In South Africa, 14 species of crops are seriously damaged. More than 130 species of […]

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