After several developments we've made...

We suddenly couldn't get into contacts with Galuh. No emails replied, so I texted her asking if she read my emails yet. Apparently she was hospitalized for almost a week. I didn't dare to ask any further so I apologized and let her have her time to rest. I'm so lost now because we haven't got any chance to meet Galuh directly and our communication so far are by emails.

Apparently one of the crew from the documentary project that Galuh's working on currently is a friend of mine. So I asked my friend several things and tips, what and how did they do the documentary, interview and other technical things. I guess there wouldn't be any big differences, fortunately I have a whole different concept with his documentary project so that's great, yes?

Anyway, our group is a 4 now that we have Rizky on board! Well, the merrier the better, I guess?

Finally!

We got in touch with Galuh, our main character for the documentary.

She seems very pleased with the idea of our documentary and fully supports what we are doing. She said that using motion media is much more effective than writing articles in appealing the audience. She's also helping with some inputs for the documentary. Apparently she has done several media recording before, I think she knows way better than us about making a documentary. She's currently on a documentary project as well and she said she's going to show us the finished product.

We've also developed some technical things that we're going to use for our documentary. Such as: using voice over to elaborate some information about deafness at the start of the video and also we're thinking of using subtitles when it comes to interviews with Galuh. Also, we want this documentary to be more casual with less formal sitting-in-front-of-the-camera interviews.

Well that's it for now. More ideas to come!

The documentary group are finally settled!

It's gonna be me, Albert and Jerry till the very end and we're working on my idea on deafness. I'm still contemplating if it's a good thing or not. Because after I went through TV1 one thing that I found out was I think I'm not really a director kind of person. I think I'm better with equipments like camera or even sound. But, you'll never know until you try, right? So hopefully I'll make a good one. One thing for sure, I'll definitely need some helps from the team members!

I think we're on the right track, we've done the draft treatment and sent it to Robin and Paul. Hope to hear some feedback soon!

Well...

So many things happened over the weeks yet I couldn't find a perfect time to write it on the blog. Where should we start... Hmmm...

Oh! My doco statement, I guess? Here it goes:

"While most people communicate easily with language of words, some of them rely most of their communication activities on the language of sign. If you think that learning the sign language for the deaf-mutes is equal to the way we learn our ABCs, then you are wrong.

This documentary will dig deeper into the world of sign language. The learning process, the various kind of sign languages that apparently differ in every countries and also how the sign language education is still left behind in several countries."

I finally decided to brought up the deafness topic that I brought up on my last post. I seriously think that it'll be like stirring and inspirational kind of thing. But the more I work on it, apparently it's going to be a challenging one. Such a stickler for perfection here. Well, I'll do my best.