This video in my opinion can be an integrated work. Although news interviews is quite different from documentary interviews, but by adding into some of our favorite elements, i think it would be helpful for integration. Hence, i have referred to some other videos in the hope that my work can be integrated successfully, although the effect of the interview may be weakened.

In this video, i have not use some serious questions, instead I have asked some simple and interesting questions like do you know some interesting gay stories or do you have some boy you like? These questions can do little help in reflecting some important things, but it can help the audience know better about her.

Music, editing, subtitles, and shots are just like pieces of puzzles which are essential elements of a work. How to integrate these elements is what I am doing this time. Sometimes it is difficult and needs to take time to find a suitable lens to express what i want to express, which discloses a problem of early-stage preparations that the details should be prepared early enough to avoid delays in post-production. Fresh shots, urban silhouettes, and lovers’ shots are some techniques that can help this work to become an outstanding one. I know that my editing techniques need to be improved and i still have much to learn, I hope my next work can do better in expressing the theme.

I have decided to add some pictures of their lives into this video as all the shots and interview questions are closely related. Although we can not control the answers of the interviewee, we can make our questions logical and relevant. Further more, as long as we put forward some deeper questions step by step, the extension of the interview time will become natural, and the interviewer will naturally give the answers that we want to get. It is not the first time for us to make an interview, but we design questions more cautiously than ever, making them more closely to the theme, to ensure the accuracy and operability. In terms of editing, to bring forth a result that emotion and self-concept are integrated with each other, I have decides to add some shots of their lives, but when to put into is rather a puzzling problem. Eventually, i have succeeded to get the effect i have expected in spite that some pictures are not naturally connected.

This time i have chosen some quiet music different from the last time, as the pure music will promote the audience’s understanding of her feelings and values, so as to express better what the video wants to expresses

When making the interview, we thought of an interesting thing that we are used to searching for some topic that can reflect the character of the interviewee, talking more about “ who are you”, but perhaps we should make the topic more significant, at least convey some meaningful ideas to the audience. As a consequence, i have not made to much editing, for i wanted to make this video focus purely on her who has not being too much changed through editing and let the audience can hear what she said, see her confusion and be herself, through all of which to express the ideas i wanted to convey to the outside society. This is why i chose to make this video in this way.

As for the music, i have also chosen some slightly cheerful music to highlight the condition of the interviewee. Maybe the first time to take an interview, she was a little nervous which would actually bring difficulties to the editing, so i have added some subtitles to make this video more natural.

Completing an interview is not hard, but how to make a high-quality questioning and answering is the most difficult and important. If time permits, we should search more about the background of the interviewee in advance to design some better questions, so as to have a better result and save some resources.

We usually give excellent documentaries a lot of praise, but sometimes we can’t explain in our words why they are good, or why they are different from other films. If fond of a film, we will   care more about its images and plots, and hope that the picture will shock us, the plot will touch us. While for bad films, we can always point out a lot of problems, like the actor’s poor acting, the picture’s disharmony. As far as i am concerned, there has always been a gap between an excellent film and a bad one. In my opinion, there should be at least two essential factors for a normal level film: Integrity and balance. Integrity is one of the visual perception of importance brought to the audience, and especially matters the plot and the character. When we are not satisfied with a movie role, it may be attributed to that the performance is not real enough or the shaping of characters is not perfect enough. For a film is to put the story around us onto the screen, even though performed in an exaggerated and dramatic way for most of the time, the audience can always feel the sense of reality of the character, and the plot is of the same case. Integrity can sometimes have an influence on the balance. These two factors are interactional. The Balance is sometimes like a circle, which is complete and one of the most stable shape in the nature. The harmony between the character and the plot, the scene lighting, camera distance are some of the foundational elements for a film. Only when all part integrated in a harmonious way, can it be called a “movie”. it cannot be denied that some of the good movies haven’t been in strict accordance with these standards, but they have also be seen as successful as a large part of these directors know how to use technology and technique to retell a good story, and even simplify somewhere, achieving a better result as well. Generally speaking, only when we firstly to learn the basic knowledge, can we have a better development. An ordinary film if is compared to a wheel, that the feeling it can give to the audience is normal and plain. If a director is capable of changing the shape of the “wheel”, that it might bring a shock to the audience or on the contrary a disaster. Documentary is sometimes not so much liked by the audience, partially because it has not been much decorated and hard to bring the audience into the scene itself even though the use of some dramatic techniques and the existence of a narrator. However it is exactly its character to tell a story in a realistic way. I have a thought hasn’t been proved that for different types of documentary, we can use different processing techniques. For the documentary related to animals and people, we can use some special narrative techniques and when it is related to war and history, we can shoot in a more realistic way to make it catch up with the rhythm. Documentary is, in my view, one’s deceased father grind more capable than the film and television director, every detail is useful, no need of too much lines to cut out of a good work.

Everyone has a childhood and even a happy childhood maybe also not be so satisfied as it thought to be. It is scarcely easy to imagine, in today’s world, the existence of the living environment of these young wolves. Life is the epitome of our lifetime, we can always feel a quite different life from our usual life in this film with, generally speaking, a complex emotion of astonishment, depression and so on. We can always learn something when using documentary techniques to tell very complicated stories of this kind especially in terms of human nature. Their painful childhood conflicts with our own lives, as if the film story actually happened around us. As we know that documentary is a more realistic way of shooting, as a consequence, when watching the documentary telling the absurd urban stories of these boys, all the audience experienced a tremendous shock. The film can to some extend help us better understand our society. We live in a world appears to be good, but tragic stories actually happen every day. News reports are sometimes to be partial, while the documentary can tell us some unknown stories that have truly happened. This story has caused a great social reaction, the prizes awarded to it has told us the truth. The huge difference comes from the the fear of the middle class to the life of the underclass. For they have been aware that such tragic things are so close to them. We all know that documentary differs from news records, as the former sometimes uses narrative techniques. Narrative technique gives a cinematic sense of sight, but nonetheless we can always know that it is a truly happened thing. After winning prizes, there have also been some people criticizing it to be imperfect, as it hasn’t given us a positive solution. But perhaps it is what makes the film charmful, telling a real city story just as if of a neighbor from the beginning to the end. Who let we are living in the city.

This is a specially interesting studio and more often the topic we hope to study is how to narrate a story, truly happened with truly existed person and non-frabricated time , in a better way to make it distinguished from novels, movies, and the other types of work. Tt is documentary which stimulates my enthusiasm to explore the real things. Known to a lot of people, “Animal World”,  is classic and almost the friend of every Chinese child’s childhood. It adopted one kind of narration technique that regraded animals as human beings, and shot their daily life as telling a story to every child. I believe that a lot of people have seen the documentary “blue planet” and would have been highly shocked by it. .It shot in vertical view, as if we were flying in the sky like a bird. The early documentaries enriched my life just like the encyclopedia and maybe that is one of the reasons why i am so interested in documentary now. We are all human beings, so we do have the empathy to people’s stories. I like things that can reach for my heart, which be movies, music and paintings for they are filled with emotions. Besides, regarding to music, movies and art, we can take some external means or techniques to inject emotion into them, like the assist of low or high music, touching scenes. The documentary can always by itself to tell you every truly thing that I want to tell you. From the bottom of my heart, I want to especially learn how to make documentaries bring as much shock as movies  can do when reducing the use of techniques.(films usually need to adopt some special techniques to achieve some emotional effects.). i wish to better comprehend how to express feelings in a documentary after studying in this studio and I also hope to learn more film technology here .In fact, I prefer to believe that good movie are affectionate.