Garden is reminiscent of flowers, trees and leisure time. So my film is about landscapes, people and animals in Carlton Gardens. My understanding of observational montage film is to observe and record things from the perspective of a stander-by. And I would like the people and things presented by the lens are undisturbed by the outside world which means that they are not disturbed by the lens and have their own concentrations. I feel that most people would perform in front of the camera once they are aware of that and thus makes the footages no longer natural and real. Therefore, during the group shooting, most of the footages were taken before we asked for the permissions from people.

I add lots of my ideas to the editing part. First of all, my film is not the one which contains lots of long shot and goes at a slow speed. I try to make it compact and interesting. I speeded up some clips so that many clips only last for three to four seconds. The longest footage is no more than twenty seconds. I reverse some of the clips, I don’t know what effects it will achieve, I just feel like I want to do this and to see how it goes. I use a lot of L-types of soundtracks and videos editing. This is because I want to put some clips in a more unified sound environment. In addition, I cut out some special sounds and merge them with some clips that I selected carefully. For example, I recorded the sneezing sound of a person and used it on another person resting on the grass. For another example was that I put the traffic police whistling sound on the footage of the juggling people who did not get the stick as an emphasis for that and between the ending segments as a transition. I like playing around with the sounds and images. My film can be roughly divided into two parts. The first half of the film is a description of the environment and people of different ages in the garden. The second half is about a variety of things that different people do in the garden. The transition between the two parts is a footage about birds on the grass.

I think I have reached my own expectations of making the film full of liveness and expressing varieties of people and things in the gardens. This observational montage film portrays my expressions of landscape, people and animals in Carlton Gardens in fast rhythms.