Reflection on the Our Daily Bread The whole style of the documentary named Our Daily Bread is trying to let the audience ignore the camera. It presents the factory, works, and animals by avoiding all the technical elements, such as camera movement, camera position, music and etc. By this method, it successfully constructs an experience […]

Introduction: The Interview as a process to draw people’s stories from them has a strong power to impress the audience. Before I read Rabiger’s introduction to the interview, I got a few questions and misunderstandings about it. For example, I am unsure about the authenticity of the interview. In other words, are filmmakers supposed to […]

‘By structure, we refer to the ways in which content is selected and ordered to produce meaning and experience.’ (Fox 2017, p.96) I have studied two fiction film studio before. Normally, the structure of the fiction film builds in the process of writing the script. After that, the script will be transferred to storyboard visually. […]

“This week’s Op-Doc is “Alone,” Garrett Bradley’s Sundance-winning story of a single mother deciding whether to marry her jailed boyfriend. We love this film for its nuanced exploration of how the criminal justice system’s effects ripple outward among families.” Technical Skills: The way of the filmmaker to construct the main melody of the documentary impresses […]

1.Analysis: https://drive.google.com/open?id=15PlMEnOkQTGwQ0pgGLbxxXgLVMUirLNp 2.Video Essay https://drive.google.com/open?id=13gPSmqItqogrdFjfcHsmSer5ghAkQgh-  

Like I mentioned in the blog of the first week, I am willing to go deeper on the documentary in this studio. Thus, the social problems behind the food may become the main area I am concerned about. The first idea came to my mind is the food problem of the homeless community. For example, the […]

In the beginning, I would like to share my own experience and understanding of the documentary. My parents and I always watch a programme called Animal World, it constructs my first impression of documentaries. This TV show is the most known documentary in China and almost every Chinese teenagers have watched it in their childhood. […]

Film Project 2: Disturbed   Film Link:   <https://vimeo.com/295564570>   Film Project 2 Reflection: <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/09/25/disturbed-film-project-2-reflection/>   Blogs Links: <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/10/18/film-project-2-blogs-links>   Recruit Actors:   <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/09/25/recruit-actors-starnow/>   Write the Script:   <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/09/25/write-the-script/>   Film theories research:   <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/10/06/research-on-french-impressionist-film-menilmontant/> <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/10/07/research-on-french-impressionist-film-menilmontant-b/> <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/10/13/research-surrealist-cinema/>   Cinematography Research:   <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/09/29/cinematography-night-time-scenes> <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/09/29/cinematic-research-2/>   Fog technique:   <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/10/02/cinematography-with-fog/>   Camera movement class:   <http://www.mediafactory.org.au/zhen-wang/2018/10/02/continue-research-of-fog-get-a-sci-fi-look-with-dry-ice-fog/>   […]

Editing Dialog To make more intensive to the dialogue, edit clips to adjust the pacing of the scene. The method to do it is that find the sound wave and cut these clips basing on the high point and low point of the clips. As a result, the problem of jump show shows up. Use reverses […]

Surrealist Cinema Introduction: Surrealist Cinema prefers to use shocking, irrational, or absurd imagery and Freudian dream symbolism to challenge the traditional function of art to represent reality. (cineCollage, 2018) The main ideology of the Surrealist Cinema is breaking the traditional expectations of the audience by put unrelated images together to surprise them. Instead of the […]