Documentary Production: Career Aspiration

My career aspiration  

In year time where I will be? What I will doing? This is a question that I have asked myself for long time, it is a question that I think I could not answer it because no one can predict a future and sometime thing is not happened right what we expect it to be. In ten years' time one thing that I quite sure of is I will be somewhere in Thailand, but for the career am still not sure what it will be.  

From expectation there are many careers that I would like to do such, and I think that can do it for many reasons, first type of career that I might see my doing in the next ten-year time is a university lecturer in South East Asia history and culture due to the reason that I will do a master degree on this subject and I have an older sister who teach in this course. My next careers that I might see my elf doing in the ten years' time is working in the Ministry of Foreign affair in Thailand or at the Royal Thai Embassy somewhere abroad due to the reason that my parent have a friend who work in this area.  

This is just an expectation that I am expected to see myself in ten-year, but who it might not happen or it might happen. Just let it be. 

Approach To Narrative: Contemporary TV Series: The Goblin

Contemporary TV Series: The Goblin

In today blog I will be writing about a contemporary TV Series describing about the use and development of character in relation to the narrative of the series. My chosen TV Series for today blog is a South Korean TV Series call Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, but mostly knowing in Asia as the Goblin.  

This TV Series is one of the best of South Korean TV Series, were staring by Gong Yoo as a Goblin or Kim Shin, Kim Go-eun as Ji Eun-tak, Lee Dong Wook as Wang Yeo or the unnamed grim reaper, Yoo In-na as Kim Sun or Sunny together with Yook Sungjae as Yoo Deok-hwa. The Goblin is TV Series that running with 5 main difference character that very important to the narrative and stories of the series. In the Goblin we have 5 main character but only 4 of them that their character are developed throughout the series, which is the character of Kim shin or Goblin, Unnamed grim reaper, Sunny and Ji Eun-tak, but in today blog am not going to talk on all 4 character on how each of them develop throughout the series. I will pick just one character to talk about in this blog post.  

The character that am chosen to talk about in this blog post is the character of Kim Shin or the Goblin that staring by Gong Yoo. The narrative of Kim shin is developed along with the development of the series, at the beginning of the series we don’t know much about the Goblin not even his real name. At the beginning his narrative only informing an audience with a basic information of him, such as the Goblin he used to be an army general back in history of Korean, he was executed by the king because he was slandered. Kim Shin has begging to the god for a revenge on the king, god has agreed to him, but in order to get a revenge he has live in an immortal life that will not end until he found the legendary Goblin’s bride that could end his life.  

Throughout the time in story the character of Kim Shin has developed his emotion from a character that don’t care about anything into a character that thinking of another person. The narrative of Kim Shin has since he meets with Ji Eun-tak a young high school girl who could be a legendary Goblin’s bride. After both characters were met, we can the development in the character of Kim Shin such he doesn’t want to die any more and he is falling in love with Ji Eun-tak.  

The expansion of time in this story has serving the character of Kim Shin in allowing his character to develop from a character who want to end his own life and a cold blood into a character that more caring about other and learn to live with other people. Time is very important to this character, because this character is a character that must use time in development due to this character have to be mysterious both for us the audience and other character in the series. 

Film Theories: Experience of co-writing

Experience of co-writing 

Film theories is a module that given an opportunity to experience co- writing essay. I have been in education for the rest in my life, but I never done or experience anything like co-writing essay before.  

When I first know that I must co-writing essay with someone in a pair I am so worry due to the reason that am not good at working with someone that I don’t know, and this work is the work that I am grading I even more worry, but for this module I was lucky enough to work with my friend that I know for a year so it like a relieve for me to work with him.  

The benefit of co-writing essay first thing is I don’t have to every research by myself, there is some who can help me. Seconded benefit is we can share an idea and discuss the best way of producing work. Third benefit is I don’t have to write a so much because we in pair we can share a good deal of writing, so I don’t have to write all 2000 words essay by myself.  

For co-writing essay there is not only the benefit that I see, in this module I also see the drawback of co-writing essay which is, if the person that you are paring with is lack of responsibility it will be a problem. For example, one of my friends she was pairing with a person who have lack of responsibility, so she ends up with writing 2000 words essay by herself, but I am so lucky because my co-writer is so reliable, and he is care about the work.  

One thing that have learned from co-writing essay is to choose the right person to work with if not you will end up in a bad situation. 

Documentary Production: Progress reflection

Documentary production A documentary is a form of film making that I have interest for a long time, so this project is a project that I am enjoyed the most in producing work. In the post-production of this project, it has been a difficult time for me, because of the brief is very limited my creativity, so I have to try to find a way to work with the brief that I have been given.

During the early time of post-production after I am getting used to the brief everything it seemed to go well, the main character Susana and story have been prepared, shot lists and camera work has been designed and the documentary is almost ready to be shoot now we only have to wait for Susana our main character to confirm the shooting date with the producer and every team members is care about this project and put a lot of effort into making this documentary.

Everything seems to go well at the beginning and I have a feeling that the project will come out great, but my expectation is been ruin because of the Susana our main character is lack of responsibly, every time when the producer of the documentary who is a friend of Susana our main character contact her about the shooting date Susana our main character all way said can we do it on next week any other day, then when it comes to the shooting, Susana our main character all way make an excuse to not shooting on the day that she has told us. This problem has been carried on for about 3 weeks until I feel like this will not if we keep continuing with this person.

In order to solve this problem, we as a team has decided to change our the main character for our documentary in order to move forward, because if we still use Susana as the main character for the documentary I have a feeling of this documentary will not be made.

Documentary Production: Camera format

To produce one documentary, it contains so many elements in order to produce it, as a film student who has been taking part in few production groups and also taking a role of director of photography (DOP). I personally prepare the short list or idea of how each short will be shot during the pre-production, but before I can design a short list first, I must know what kind of camera I will use for this filming and what format is suitable for the film and camera.  

When talking about camera format many of new film maker or anyone who done know about filming and edit most likely suggest me to film in 4K for the best quality images, but I personally follow introductory in thing that I have been taught because not every camera is capable of filming 4K, but if the camera is capable to film in 4K and what about the output. For this documentary I will use Sony fx100e this camera cannot film in 4K so the format for this camera is HD resolution 1920-1080 and frame rate is 25p and speed shutter at 50 double of frame rate it’s enough for me to have a good quality images. The reason of set frame rate at 25p it's becasue it is common frame rate setting that using in Europe. Other than images sound also important for this documentary due to this documentary is also contained an interview part so sound of the interview have to be crystal clear. 

For the sound I have chosen to use lavalier microphone in order to capture a perfect interview sound for the documentary, reason that I choose to use lavalier microphone is because this kind of mic is purpose build for interview so it will not capture any of location sound like the shotgun mic, because for this documentary sound of the location or the diegetic sound is unnecessary for my documentary.

Approach To Narrative: Embedding and Embedded Narrative

Lost in La Mancha

In today blog I will talk about a documentary called Lost in La Mancha, this documentary is talking about the making of Terry Gilliam’s unfinished film The Man Who Kill Don Quixote. In this documentary I can identify the use of embedded narrative, In the Lost in La Mancha, the embedding narrative which is the documentary Lost in La Mancha itself and the Embedded narrative or the narrative that bing contain within other narrative is The Man Who Kill Don Quixote film. In Lost in La Mancha I could not identify any of micro texts due to this documentary not really going deep into the making the film, this documentary is just observing the surface of the making of The Man Who Kill Don Quixote, but not really going into each particular problem that the production team has. From my spectator perspective, I could not indemnify any of micro text such as ideological or any psychological. In this documentary I can see that narrative of the documentary is shifting between the embedding narrative which is the container narrative to the embedded narrative which is the containing narrative quite often, for example in one sense audiences is watching the making of the film and then the narrative is switching to some part of the film this is what I personally feel like the narrative of the documentary is shifting to the narrative of a film. Throughout the documentary, I could not identify the sense of validity, due to the narrative of the documentary it that clear in term of the reason by is the film not being complete. At the end of the documentary, the audience is being informed that one of the main actors it could not come back to finish the film until the next six month, from a spectator perspective this not the main reason of not complete the film, so I think the sense of validity of being documentary still not complete from my spectator perspective.

Documentary Production: Market observation

Observe object and space The object for someone it just pieces of material, but for someone, it might be more than that, for someone objects can fulfill their life, dream, and passion. In today blog I will share with my experience of observing people and how their interactions with an object, so to observed people with the object the perfect place that I think that the object will bring out his or her personality to the public view is shaping center. In observing task I have chosen to visit a Bicester shopping village in Bicester Oxfordshire, at the shopping village I have seen many people with many difference stereotype interact with many different kinds of object. Find the type of people or stereotype that I see that most lady and the object that attract them the most is a handbag especially big name handbags like Prada, Gucci, Coach and many more. The stereotype of a lady who is interacted by those brand name handbags is mostly wealthy person and some also might be well-educated due to their behavior and manner and I also see that those handbags also pull out their true nature of being a mother, because when there handle the bags the lady is treating those bags like a baby that need to be handled with care. At the shopping village I had visited almost every shop, but still, not all of them due to the size of the shopping village is very big and some shop is not my type of interest. While I was there is one shop that has to be queueing if you want to get inside and that shop is Gucci, this Gucci shop is one of the biggest shops in the village. At the front of Gucci many people are queueing and waiting to get inside and buy whatever their and there can afford, the reason that Gucci shop is attractive so many people are due to the brand that is a global exception as one of the top fashion brands of the world so that is why many people can give their time in queue at the front of the shop so their can buys and own one of the big brand names produce. When talking about Bicester shopping village everyone who into shopping will know that this village is the biggest brand name shopping village in the UK, so the perspective of people that never visit this village will think that most people that go there have to dress nice or wearing an expensive product, but it not true from my experience not everyone wears brand name produce or dress expensively they just wear whatever they want to wear. I have voted this village in order to blogs about this but it is impossible for me if am not shopping or by anything, so I shop just a few items that not so expensive but most of them are a shoe. A shoe is an object that caught my attention and it an object that I spend most of my money into.