The Creative Decision Making in a Documentary Production

This journal inspects the importance of creative decision making in various aspects of documentary production, examines whether those decisions help to make the film an engaging cinematic piece, and explores the influences it might have on the society, the cinema and the subject, in relation to my own experience in producing a 15min documentary film Hackney Pirates, and my understandings of relevant practice from the contemporary cinema. Introduction Films about education for children in critical situations have been seen in cinema since the 1990s. For example, Zhang Yimou’s 1999 film Not One Less tells a story about a teenage girl Wei Minzhi who volunteers to teach in a one-room primary school and her relationships with the pupils. And†¦show more content†¦Slightly frustrated at first, we realised that the interviews are actually not as necessary as in Être et Avoir on a second thought, in that the theme of Être et Avoir also includes the teacher’s devotion to his pupils, while Hackney Pirates is purely about the children’s learning experience, which satisfies the objectives of Hackney Pirates; moreover, the volunteer training session facilitated by one of the founders as part of the narrative structure we’ve planned can provide essential information of the organisation. The opening Être et Avoir opens with a scene of tough labour work and living conditions in a rural farm, followed by a montage sequence of a classroom with warm and cheerful dà ©cor. The warm interior in contrast to the cold exterior emphasizes on the light and positive tone of the film, which consequently helps to attract the viewers’ attention and keeps them engaged in the following sequences. 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