2018 Week 1: Documentary
24/01
On the first week of school, we watched a documentary film by renowned film director Peter Jackson called Forgotten Silver which focuses on a "famous" director Colins Mackenzie.
At the end of the documentary, we found that it was fake all along which is a mockumentary. I fell for it thinking it was an actual documentary even though there were some parts that were suspicious but nonetheless fell for it.
Afterwards, our teacher told the class to note down five documentary techniques that were used in the mockumentary, here's mine:
25/01
Today, we discuss what made Peter Jackson's mockumentary work and then our teacher quickly go over this term's unit, Documentary. This term, we are going to make a documentary about social media and so we look at past works to give us an idea. This would let me think about how would I go about with the topic.
Furthermore, for homework, he asked us to write down 5 goals for Film this year and so here are my goals:
On the first week of school, we watched a documentary film by renowned film director Peter Jackson called Forgotten Silver which focuses on a "famous" director Colins Mackenzie.
At the end of the documentary, we found that it was fake all along which is a mockumentary. I fell for it thinking it was an actual documentary even though there were some parts that were suspicious but nonetheless fell for it.
Afterwards, our teacher told the class to note down five documentary techniques that were used in the mockumentary, here's mine:
- They use professionals in the film industry to tell the facts and so the audience trusting them, they fell for it
- They use archive footage from the past and some who were fake, they use special effect to create an archive footage
- The use of different colours during editing, to show different time periods
- Profesional interviews with good use of lighting
- Using real historical events as the setting of the documentary
Today, we discuss what made Peter Jackson's mockumentary work and then our teacher quickly go over this term's unit, Documentary. This term, we are going to make a documentary about social media and so we look at past works to give us an idea. This would let me think about how would I go about with the topic.
Furthermore, for homework, he asked us to write down 5 goals for Film this year and so here are my goals:
- Do really well in post-production such as organizing and plan really well before filming
- Balance this and other school work really well
- Practise more with a camera especially on ISO, aperture and focus
- Update the blog regularly as possible and reflecting more on there
- Practise more on lighting
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