1. What is the ‘controlling idea’ (Robert McKee) of your portrait?

The controlling idea of this portrait is the passion of fashion. Anna, my interviewee is a fashion lover in China and she has studied fashion in Melbourne for 6 years. The most interesting thing about her is that she loves to match with her own style. She is only 150cm tall which is hard for her to find a suitable clothes. But because of her creative, she is able to wear all different design for 365 days.

2. How is your portrait film structured? 

I use voiceover narration for this portrait and the portrait is about the interviewee’s story in fashion. She starts with introducing herself, explaining why she choose fashion to study and what difficulty does she struggle in during the fashion journey.

3. What do you want your audience to make of your interviewee? 

I want my audience to understand how hard does my interviewee work to this level and being inspired from her to achieve the dream.

4. How is your portrait being narrated? Why? How does it affect the structure?

I am using voiceover narration where Anna will tell the story about herself. I have gathered some footages and shooting some videos which set as background.

5. What role will the ‘found footage’ play in your portrait? 

Reinforcement. I have found some footage about fashion which shows what fashion design is.

6. Does your portrait have a dramatic turning point?

Yes. Anna discusses about how she works with fashion but there are struggles she met throughout 6 year. Many people may see her really enjoy in this industry, however, she is not always happy with this.

7. When does this turning point in your portrait and why?

I present the tuning point at the halfway through because I want to balance two side of interviewee’s attitude towards fashion.

8. How does your portrait gather and maintain momentum?

It starts off with introducing and my interviewee will tell the story from the past till now. As it goes on, the audience will understand more about her.

9. Where will your portrait’s dramatic tension come from?

The dramatic tension will be the combination of music and original footage that I took. It will be a climactic moment where she plays around with fashion design.

10. Does the portrait have a climax and/or resolution?

The resolution is to see how my interviewee solve the problems that she met. She spends the whole day walking around, seeing how other people is dressing and gathering different ideas from other designer.