Part A: Thinking about story

In this week, we learnt to use the way of storytelling to express the relationship between human and nature. A story is the narrative or telling about an event or a serious of event, the way you use to telling a story attracts the audience or reader(Bernard, Sheila C, 2013). A complete and attractive story comprises 3-act, at the beginning of the story should start with a conflict, this is the cause of the question. In the middle, you should guide the journey through looking for the answer or solution. And there is a transformation in the end of the story, it should be a change of your inner thoughts or external environment. A dramatic storytelling usually involves more specifically to character-driven stories(Bernard, Sheila C, 2013). In my documentary, I chose a story that really happened in my life as a inciting incident, it promotes the development of the whole story, which is the reason that I want to explore this issue. I was tried to restore and summarize this story, the process of making documentary should be fluid and organic, a well-written film script is an instrument that for you to create emotion and epiphany at will(Das, Trisha, 2007). I spent a lot of time to modify my script, try to made it better integrate into my documentary, and grasp the emotions of audience, let them reflect the question.

Part B: Telling a story

The story happened on a late night, a strange noise disturbed the peace, my friend called me for help because of his fear, this call was the beginning of everything. We didn’t find the source of this strange noise, but it triggered my thinking of it. I started searching this noise online, after repeated confirmation, I was sure that sound comes from an wild animal possum. In the process of searching information, I found that a lot of people who living in Australian suburbs have encountered the same thing as my friend, so they complaint, and propose to kill them. However, I found that this animal will not hurt people, and it is a protected animal in Australia, I’d wish to calling people know more about this animal and try not to disturb them.

Reference:

Bernard, Sheila Curran. Documentary Storytelling : Making Stronger and More Dramatic Nonfiction Films, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

Das, Trisha How to Write a Documentary Script