Food On Film – Week 7
Pre- Production (Plan, equipment)& Reflection on the reading
There is no doubt that technologies and approaches Tong and I select in producing our documentary already come bundled with certain stylistic propensities. When we talked with our interviewee Tah last week, there is one idea comes up to my mind. I learn sometimes the interview style can be very personal and it just requires me as an interviewer to listening to that person’s experiencing. For the visual design of our interview, the camera (Sony X70) will defiantly be on a tripod. We are thinking that we probably will let Tah sit-down in a closed location in Shinmei Tasty. As Fox mentions in the reading, “Camera placement also affects the vantage point onto action and the resultant meaning audiences can derive from a shot”.Tong and I plan to let her sit in a position that we can film her and the environment of her restaurant as well.
An interview’s background is really important for giving audiences information about the character and the content of the documentary. Thus, the frame of our documentary allows viewers into the world of our main character Tah, to permit them a fuller sense of who she is. Fox states that “The real world provides an infinite number of visual and auditory feeds at every moment”(p.122) We decided to choose a wireless interview microphone because we want to have a good quality audio piece from Tah. It’s five minutes micro-documentary, Tah’s voice will give our audience’s content of our documentary. Tong and I haven’t thought about the sound alternatives of our documentary, but the sound of a documentary is really really important. We probably won’t just have one sound for our background music, we will consider it when we do the editing of our documentary.
We plan to interview her next week, and we found a micro-documentary named BLD Restaurant in Los Angeles, it gives us an idea of what our project may look like for the end. We will follow the same structure of this documentary. One main character talks and some observational food and restaurant environment footages to support the voice over.
Feedback for the pitch
Thanks for Kim inventing Ryne and Sophie came to our class, and also thanks for Ryne and Sophie gave Tong and I feedback for our final project – Shinmai Tasty.
They give us two suggestions for our documentary, the first one is we can interview our main character Tah by a personal perspective and exploring her personal life experience, or we can focus on this restaurant and explore the authenticity of its food. After the discussion, Tong and I chose option two, we will still focus on exploring the meaning of authenticity in food from Shinmai Tasty to a large scale. As well as the location, we will interview our main character Tah in her restaurant, and it will provide information to our audiences of her and her restaurant.
Equipments
- Sony X70
- Click up microphone (wireless)
- Tripod
- Light
Scene breakdown
Reference
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