Test for my portfolio

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 Test:

  • The film tests the natural combination of documentary and personal narrative cinema through the use of perspective switches, camera angles, color shifts and side transitions.

Plan for my portfolio

First Part: Introduce
  • A 1 minute pilot film goes to introduce my subject. It's a documentary about family relationships and the film is inspired by my own family.
Second Part: My concept, test my challenge (Incorporate the documentary and personal narrative film)

Plot Outline：

1. I walked down the street and tried to record a father and son walking hand in hand. The camera shutter effect fixes the video on them walking hand in hand, and the image slowly fades to a picture of my father holding me when I was young, and then fades to a picture of me and my father on a table. (The transition from personal narrative to reality is accomplished by switching between different perspectives.)

2. I'm writing a diary with a pen (the content of the diary will be my narration): 
"All these years, I've always acted mature in front of my dad and uncle.
I never asked anything in front of them about my dad's departure.
But his leaving has always bothered me.
Did I ever disappoint him with my lack of excellence, 
or did he just not like me that much from the beginning.
With the passage of time, they probably all thought I didn't care about it anymore
Thinking that all the hurt will slowly fade away as I grow up.
But I don't want to stay confused like this.
I feel like I should muster up the courage to find that truth that will unlock my confusion."
     
3.  After writing the last sentence, I will put down the pen (the camera is pointed at the diary) and I will    slowly raise the camera - the angle of the camera will slowly change from the diary to my face (the angle of the camera completes the change in the subject of the narrative, while the colors will change from the cinematic tones of the beginning to the factual tones).

4. I look at the camera and say something to the camera (why would I want to call my uncle first instead of just calling my dad)

5. Use the sound of the phone to end the last part then transition to the video dialogue stage

6. I make a video call to my uncle (large view, close-up, medium view, screen recording) - (record what my uncle knows to be true about my dad leaving)

7. I hang up the phone and write the last sentence in my diary

8. I slowly stood up without walking towards the window

9. The camera close-up moves slowly from the photo on the table to the sentence on the note (the perspective shifts again from reality to the diary. The documentary begins and then ends with the diary, creating an echo of the beginning and the end)
Sentence in the diary
"Dad, I miss you. I want to know what's in your heart."

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