On our Week 8 tutorial, we moved from classrooms to editing suites, which represent we have to start our post-production. Can't believe this semester is ending so soon.
We presented our footages from the interview and realized that there is bunch of great information from the interview. What's best is, our subject's personality. Her answers to the interview questions showed her interesting or rather, distinct personality. I do realized her eccentricity on the rainy day shoot but I did not think too much about it. Robin enlightened us and made us realized that there is so much we can do with her personality.
Instead of mainly focusing on animal communication, we changed our focus onto the animal communicator, our subject herself. But as Robin mentioned, the existing challenge is no longer good visual quality or better sound, it is the way we put them all together so it would not be obvious (to our subject) that it is a documentary on her oddity (I wonder if this has something to do with filmmakers' ethics) but it is trying to 'promote' animal communication. Anyhow, the change reminds me of 'Capturing the Friedmans' (2003), where the filmmaker changed his focus from clown entertainment industry to the Friedmans tragedy. And that is what so attractive about documentary - so unpredictable, so changeable.
Before I do this course, I always think that making documentary is a dreadful job. But as time passed and after all I have learnt and experienced by far, I find myself admiring documentaries, and even think of making more other documentaries in the future! =)
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