Today (october 15th, 2020), we showed our near ‘final ready’ documentaries to the class. My film lacked my ending as it wasn’t finished but I found it extremely beneficial to have peoples feedbacks towards my near finished documentary. I was so pleased to hear that everyone liked the vulnerability I presented within my doco as […]
Finalising a film is always such a stressful process. I begin asking myself; “Have I done enough?”, “Does this reach the criteria?”. I do tend to have a lack of confidence when I know people create such amazing videos. A process I followed was making sure all my audio volume was high enough to hear […]
Within this assignment, one of the most challenging aspects I have found was sound design. I’ve watched countless documentaries and never really found myself appreciating the sound design behind the creation. I believe I’m much more a visual watcher when it comes to documentary. In Broderick Fox’s reading of Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice, he states […]
My film has gone through some major rework, including the storyline itself. Script work. Filming. I deleted a LOT of footage which was a bit disheartening but as I edit my film it slowly has come together. I do have fears that it is a bit messy but that is just my own individual style. […]
I received feedback today on my idea. I have to aim to make it more personal. After some thought and time, I decided to edit my idea. Rather then focusing on this idea of the impact of single use coffee cups, I have changed to the connect an individual (in this instance, myself) to the […]
Through the creation of my film. I remembered one of my favourite films we watched in the early weeks of this studio. Sindha Agha’s film ‘How To Be Alone’ has really inspired me in ways where I can interact with inanimate objects to explore loneliness. She successfully documents her own life in her film ‘How […]
Revealing our pitch to Shweta and James was quite nerve racking. I created a video to pitch my film idea of From Bean To Bin. Although at the time of creating, I contemplated titling my film 2,700,000, I’ve since decided to change that name. I explored the reasoning behind my film and the audience I […]
“A story is the narrative, or telling, of an event or a series of events, crafted in a way to interest the audience members, whether they are readers, listeners or viewers” (Sheila Curran Bernard 2011, 15) After contemplating the idea of story, I wondered how to incorporate a story line into my film. The title […]
Broderick Fox suggested that the idea of documentaries is they all ‘look and sound the same’. The idea that documentaries all all informative and to some ‘boring’. Through this studio, I have come to the realisation that documentaries have different styles and film techniques involved to create their own originality. Week 7 introduced us to […]
From week 1 to week 6 we were inundated with incredible techniques that would assist our film structure. Techniques I took a particular liking to were archival footage, taking a position and poetic and contemplative. These techniques really opened up my eyes to the logistics of documentary creating. Through discovering new techniques and experimenting by […]