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It’s finally the last week of the semester, and that means yesterday was the last class for Food on Film Studio. We do have an exhibition going on next Tuesday which I’m pretty excited about. After watching the rough cut, Kim gave some feedback on…

Since the last post, I’ve been doing some changes to the final piece. I managed to cut down the interview form 18 long minutes to just under 4 minutes. I did this because I needed to put in some other elements to the project and…

For my final project, I finally have the interview footage which I shot this Monday and numerous shots of the store which was taken from three different days that I was there. I tried to shoot as much store scenes as possible so I have…

In this week’s reading by Broderick Fox, he discussed different editing techniques used in documentary films, including cross cutting, creating the feeling of suspense and surprise, to the implementation of teasers/trailers in a documentary film. Fox explained how Crosscutting can link spaces and times between…

This week, we focused on sound production on film and their importance in telling a story and how they affect the audience’s watching experience. The food scene I chose to discuss is from a documentary series that I’ve been watching and I really enjoyed, which…

I finally got to settle on an idea, and decided to do my documentary on The Inconvenience Store, a non-for-profit supermarket run by Lentil as Anything. The pitch was thankfully well received, and so we were asked to do a scene breakdown and post it…

This week’s reading discusses observational approach in a documentary, specifically on the movie Our Daily Bread. Hughes (2013) explained how the movie is democratic, and with no narration nor interviews whatsoever, the movie gives the audience an immense freedom in making meaning out of it….

This week we watched a documentary on different interviewing techniques before actually doing an exercise on interviewing. In a group of three, we were to do two exercises, one was fox pops, which is basically a “person-in-the-street interviews” (Rabiger 2009). We only had to ask…