Lecture: Ethic and Doco

Today's lecture brought up something useful and interesting!

*From the subject's point of view; why does anyone wat to take part in the film?

People want to take part in the film may because they believe film is a medium to spread out their own story, a medium to get their story across to others.

As Steph said, "When it comes to making a documentary, or writing an article, if you want to present a truth, then you have to make the decision before you start making the story what’s more important.

The relationship you have with your characters

Or

The story.

Guess for my group, we already decided to go with the relationship with our character . And maybe because we are not aiming to focus on her drug addiction past, so we didn't really have any ethical difficulty between the story and the relationship with the character.

Now i finally understand why it is always harder to make a documentary than drama, because the documentary is recording people's life and how it present would affect one or the other's life. How to make a documentary along with the ethical line and not cross people's limitation is what I really need to learn through this project i think.

The following just something i took down from the lecture, think that would be useful for our filming.

Interview techniques:

1. ask the subject to answer the questions in a particular structuring way.
i.e. repeat the questions before answer it, give a pause before answer the question..etc.

2. give them a script to read out as voice over.

3. Encourage them to ask the filming staff questions.

4. ask them to relate to the camera in a certain way
i.e. don't look at the camera..etc

5.To act out a senario: i. Typical ii. invested

6.act Natural

7.ask the subject to demonstrate particular skills and postures