Screening!

DOCO IS DONE AND SUBMITTED! YAY!

I went to the screening. It's my first time to go to TV course screening because I didn't go to the last semester's one. Sad, I know.

Anyway, along the screening I enjoyed pretty much everything. All the TV2 students picked up some good stories and it's presented in such a good way.

Although one of them really caught me in awe, it's the Kaleidoscope. I heard rumors about a group who flew to Sydney with TV equipments just to interview 2-3 people there. For me, it sounds awful enough, I mean our group drove to Bundoora and it was quite a tiring journey.

Anyway, the doco was about synesthesia. Turns out one of the doco-maker is my classmate on the different subject.

The opening was very nice, very creative using those hanged colorful words.

The thing that impressed me the most is the use of graphic. Using graphics to explain what is synesthesia? Awesome! I was thinking how would they describe synesthesia to the people who is not synesthic. Using the smoke efects and stuff. It was awesome. Just, awesome. They inserted bits and bits of the making so people know how are those effects made. I think it's a good thing. Now we know how to make that kind of smoky effect by ourselves. It might be because of the theme of the doco itself but using a lot of color is rather catchy for me instead of a monoton black-and-white-themed doco. In short, they did a great job on how to explain and visualize what is synesthesia to the audience.

The source of information about synesthesia itself is pretty reliable since they interview both synesthic people and a professor from Sydney.

On the other note, I'm just glad that our doco's screening went smooth. Phew! :)

Editing, editing and editing. It's like I can't really live a day without a dose of doco editing. Yeah.

Last week was the rough cut screening. We got some good advices from the other group. Somehow I feel like it's not working anymore, our doco. Maybe I've had too much of it that it's getting... you know.

Anyway, we screwed up some parts of the video but luckily it's fixable. We're still on the process of figuring out what was Galuh trying to say at the second round of shooting because we didn't use any interpreters on that day. I think me and Albert will make good interpreters after we're done with this doco. Woot.

We did another round of shooting with Galuh. This time, it's less complicated. Maybe after all tons of emails and messages, Galuh seems to be quite open to us and it her get used to us.

At first she didn't support the idea of shooting at her house, she said her housemate will not approve either. It was quite disappointing, but when we came to the second shooting she said that we can shoot at her house but without coming in. Well, it's something we cannot say no at so after we're done with the cafe shooting, we went to her place.

It was raining... and I'm thankful for that because it was maybe one of the reasons why Galuh finally let us in to her house. Well not practically her house, only her room because she has this access to her house without having to go through the main front door where we would get caught by her housemate.

Finally, we decided to shoot inside her room. Which was pretty nice because the rain stopped and it was starting to get sunny so we get quite a nice lighting. YAY!

Other than the shooting, Galuh told us some stories about deaf people in Indonesia and the government. It was great to know about those kind of things, I personally thought that my own documentary idea really piqued my interest.

Finish for the day, that would be the last time we see Galuh... so far.

This is the biggest contemplation I've been dealing with through out the week:

Should we use subtitles? Or should we use voice over? Or should we use both? Or should we figure out a different way of making this thing understandable?