In week 13, Our impact documentary was screened at the capitol. Different film producers can see our screening. The audience can give us feedback according to our impact documentary. I would like to engage our audience by discussing the issue in the impact documentary and raising social awareness. We used a lot of first-hand experience with our interviewee to create a more personalised issue for the audience. Our target audience for this documentary is mainly international students and policymakers. We want to inspire policymakers to arrange policies, such as having apartments, especially for international students or building more affordable student accommodation.
If I can keep working on my media piece. I would like to improve my interview skills. Having a complete storyline and interviewing more professional international student services helps my impact documentary. For the narrative part, the story arc of our documentary is not enough to create tension as a trailer. Music and Color grading is one of the most successful parts of our documentary. I think it enhances the overall atmosphere. The interview part occupied a large part of our documentary. If I could improve our documentary, I would reduce some interview parts and add some emotional scenes of the international students. A narrative storyline is also essential for an impact documentary to succeed. Building a more complete storyline and interviewing more professional international student services. Casting is a significant issue for all drama-doc makers. By having an actor in our documentary, we can produce more creative shots in it.
In ‘Leftovers to Landfill’. They talk about household food waste in the impact documentary. Interviewing the three separate individuals/companies in the food waste cycle. First of all, they are the producers of products, consumers, and climate activists. They have a complete storyline and interview on the food waste cycle. The audience can listen to three different perspectives on the issue. The Second documentary that I watched was ‘Where Are All The Queers?’. In their impact documentary, they focus on interviewing the local LGBTQ+ community. Filming a documentary on LGBTQ+ topics is needed to do lots of research as it needs to respect the community. It encourages the Melbourne community to gain more knowledge about the LGBTQ+ community and Flippy’s Queer Bar. Both of the documentaries successfully raise social awareness.
THE POLITICS OF CHAOS is a 4-minute documentary that shows how misinformation became a significant player in the political debate, drastically changing the election outcome. The documentary used many scenes in black and white sketch style. The overall documentary is different from other documentaries, It even edits the part of the interview into black and white to underscore the gravity and seriousness of the documentary’s themes, making the message more severe and impactful. The main interviewee in the documentary is Dr Binoy Kampark, He talked about a US political issue in 2016 and how misinformation led to Trump’s victory in the presidential election. It leads the audience to rethink the true and false information on social media or the internet. Encouraging the audience to use fact-checking tools to evaluate the credibility of the information. I was impressed by their editing skill, It is a new method to produce a documentary in this way.
