Location: A high school classroom
Characters: Students and teacher
Approach: The content of documentary will be some students having class in school. There is no voice over and interview of anyone. The way to present it is using camera shooting different students, focusing on their behaviors and reflections on the teacher’s words. Specifically, we can use their first points of view, by the camera, to achieve some certain effects like the person is concentrating on studying, or doing some other things he likes and how he manages to do this without having the attention of the teacher. Similarly, there is also the first point of view of the teacher, to see what the class is doing, from his perspective, and the reactions of his students on the things he is trying to teach them. And when changing between these points of view, the camera also need to shoot establishing shots of the whole classroom, long shots including more than one person, medium shots from different perspective and sometime medium or even extreme close up on the person whom will be used as the first point of view next. Through this device, I think the documentary will be able to show how a daily high school class runs, from a perspective which we don’t usually see. However, there will be no clear narrative, but the footage will be edited according to the logical connection between them, in order to make the film not too abstract for audiences. In sum, I want to do a documentary which the priority task of it is observing the reality happening in our lives.