reflection of the individual engagement

in the soundtrack the dominant part was actually the speech and music.  diegetic noises was not playing an important part in the short film. to my disappointment, we left out so much of it and without the music and speech the film was almost a silent film. it goes well with only some constant silent cutaways but without the diegetic sound the authenticity was reduced. because in a lot of shots we only made the most of the visual information but overlooked the sounds recorded with them. the teamwork with camera man was not conducted well as some shots were shot while the sound person were not even aware that they were being shot. so the sound person couldn't know which microphone was catching sounds (the mic in Z7 or K6, or radio mic)and what kind of sound it was catching. we tended to do too many random shots intended for cutaways and it was assumed that those clips don't need sound at all. so finally the finished product doesn't contain sounds (by sounds here i mean diegetic noises). From realism's perspective the consequence is that only half of what happened remained after the editing. when we see Ren walking across the street we don't hear him talking. It was not because the sounds were recorded badly but was because that from the beginning, we didn't intend to cover the events actually happening there so when we use those silent cutaways they seem to be cheating on audiences. A documentary shouldn't cheat audiences to that extent.  if you watch those cutaways without sounds muted you will find that the things happening in those shots can not be strong supporting evidence for the interview content. Instead they are random things happening but what should have been filmed was things that actually happened to Ren. For example, busking scene, we should have let him do what he does as he anyway will do. We were manipulating his life instead of filming what is going to happen. it was all planned, not spontaneous. John Corner talked about something interesting might have happened, say there were passers-by interacting with him while he was singing and then the sounds would convey important meanings in that case. Imagine if the first a few shots in the beginning could have included aural information instead of just music it would not look like a music video which is how it looks like now.