In our Tuesday class, we were shown a number of documentaries, each with different structures. There’s ‘The Heat’ which is a linear narrative following the life of a female boxer and her struggles, ‘Sriracha’ took on the essayistic/autobiographical approach by exploring what ‘sriracha’ is, and…
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Fork Over Knives (2011), directed by Fulkerson Lee, is a documentary highlighting the relationship between Americans, health diseases and food diet. “A movie that can save your life” as Roger Ebert labelled it, Fork Over Knives is as informational as it is persuasive in converting…
This tuesday, Kim discussed the different modes of documentary and showed us examples of each modes. In this week’s reading by Broderick Fox, documentary is categorised into 9 modes including: reflexive, poetic, expository, observational, participatory, performative, autobiographical, essayistic, and lastly, interactive. For a food related topic, I think…
Our last assignment is to make another short film. I’ll be breaking the process into three steps. pre-production: Firstly, I had to pitch my idea to the class. Thankfully, it was not as nerve-wrecking since I’d done it a few times. In “Just a Minute”,…
Hi guys, so for last assignment I produced and directed the movie “The Other Side” featuring Niki Butterfield as Elena. This movie is a mix of experimental and narrative short film. It portrays Elena’s emotional struggle with a climax of a conversation between her and…
With all the footages in hand, the next step is therefore editing. Unlike my last project, this time I am editing on my own. Thus, I have more freedom in the whole creative process and have it completely done the way i want it to…
At first, I had zero idea on how to write a script. I didn’t think that it was gonna be complicated, as it will simply be similar to story writing. Well I was wrong. A script has a format, with a few parts such as:…
With the script done, the next step is to shoot the footage. Before the shoot however, there were some list to check off. Firstly, the location is at my friend’s (Terry) house. The actress is also one of my friend, Niki, who’s also a media…
During the consultation of our projects to Brian last week, since I’m focusing on scripting and dialogues, he suggested to do an exercise on de-scripting movies. This means I’ll be turning a scene into a script. He also suggested to do on movies that might…