https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEUgGV1lTmU

In this week, we learnt a new way of expressing documentary. At the beginning of this semester I was confused about the circumscription of documentary, in my narrow understanding, documentary is boring, insipid and academical, in the process of learning this task, it completely subverted my understanding of documentary, I was exciting for this studying process, it was a fresh exploring for me. We learnt to change a style of the documentary, break through the inherent thinking mode, brainstorming and reconstruct the film expression. There are many preconceived notions about Archive movies, which may be limited(Gurry， 2019). Making the film creative and less generic, we need to set up an aesthetic plan, exploring the relationship between technology selection of format and aesthetic result. We can redefine the meaning of characters or objects in the movie and give them a new vitality. In the film “I think this is the closest to how the footage looked” by Yuval Hameiri(2017), he gives vitality to the normal object in daily, let them present the story, makes the film get his own originality. This is totally different from the traditional documentary, makes it more visually. I was inspired by his style and ideas, after looking around, I picked up a pack of cigarettes which closest to me, chose it as my character in the film. It has no connection with my final documentary, but I think I can put this idea and technology to it. There is a portrait on the cigarette case, it inspired my imagination of him. I use the way of stop-animation to present a man died for smoking cigarettes, however, the “person” who smoked is this pack of cigarettes, which makes the film ironic. The process of making this film is fresh and interesting to me. In my final documentary work, I will try to break the rules and brainstorming, making the documentary more impressive and diverse.

reference:

I think this is the closest to how the footage looked. 2017. [film]. Directed by Yuval Hameiri

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reframe: Kelly Sears & Sam Gurry in Conversation, https://slamdance.com/kelly-sears-sam-gurry/