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Food On Film – Week 5

In the class, we did an exercise of Vox Pop, in the reading, it says Vox pops defines as person in the street interviews. It requires us to ask one question to a range of people, their responses will create a rapid and instructive sequence. Tong and I did two interviews with the question of what you think about authentic food in Melbourne.

 The authenticity of the ethnic restaurants in Melbourne

 

During the process, I’ve learned a lot. First of all, it totally different from what I’ve done for last semester. Last semester, as a group we interviewed a scientist expert which helps us to solvate the question “What if a giant asteroid didn’t wipe out the earth?” And my group member and I, we need to prepare all the questions of what we are going to ask. And it also requires us to do a lot of research on our topic. Comparing with what we’ve done in class, Vox pop is more random, I guess. Only thing I need to do is thinking one questions and just taking all the equipment and go out, meeting new people. I must say it’s a great experience and I was a little bit afraid at the beginning, and when I start asking people, it more like a conversation.  I can just be a listener rather.

 

For our major project, Tong and I will interview an owner of a restaurant which has a different cultural background. The hardest point is we are not sure if people want to be interviewed or not. But we will send an email for the appointment and just wait to see if it’s possible. Sometimes, the beginning of a project is the hardest point, and if I go through it, everything will be fine, I think. If we are allowed to interview the owner, we will prepare the questions that we want to ask and the location will probably in his or her restaurant. Rabiger (2009)mentions that for interviewing a group, the director should use more than one camera, so we can always have reaction shits and cutaway I think it also works for ] interviewing an individual. Because during the exercise in class, there is one footage which we can control the focus of the camera, so always have a backup is a good way for some accidents may happen too. There is another part we want to do, which is interviewing random people, we want them to share their own experiences of authentic food in Melbourne in order to create the link from authentic food to our society. For now, the mode of our micro-documentary will still be interactive, but it may change when we move further.

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