This week we’re getting on with our final documentary, all documentaries editing is a form of manipulation, it is an opportunity to exploring the creative editing and structural styles of professional outreach(Fox, 2017). During the process of making documentary, I found that creating a natural and coherent ambient noise is a challenge for me, I tried to restore the scene that the story taken place, therefore, I need to find the ambient noise that matches the storyline. In the article “Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice” by Broderick Fox(2017), he represents that human ear is more sensitive to breaks and ruptures in the soundtrack than the eye is to editorial mismatches or jumps, therefore I try to make the background sound more fluid, use multiple audio tracks to insert different ambient sounds, vocals and background music to diversify the background sounds, thus giving the audience a various listening experience. In addition, when I making the dialogue, I found the post-arranged dialogue looks unnatural in the video, which largely reduce the audience’s sense of substitution and viewing experience. Therefore, I’m still considering about the form of presenting story. In the desktop documentary part, I found that a large amount of stated information and materials make the movie too single and academic. Fox noticed that the viewer handled the information completely differently from the reader, when watching a documentary, viewers often less able to control the speed at which they receive information. If your documentary contains a lot of speech or text information, you will soon encounter the problem of diminishing returns, which is also the problem I am solving. I added some questions and subtitles to let the audience understanding better. In addition, for the technical aspects of production, I tried to make the interface richer, not just recording the process of searching for information, I want to make this process more interesting.

Reference:

Fox, Broderick, Documentary Media : History, Theory, Practice, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/RMIT/detail.action?docID=5103711.