The study of making a documentary film about a person who has Alzheimer’s Disease with Memories of October 6, 1976

Abstract

The study of making a documentary film about a person who has Alzheimer's disease with memories of October 6, 1976 explain the day that was one of the most tragic events in Thailand throughout the study of making the documentary film called “Comrade’s tales” which relay on the interview of National Artist in Literary Arts, Dhepsiri Sooksopa who is the storybook author joining the Communist Party to gather information before he had Alzheimer's disease and he found that history was concealed and distorted.

This documentary film has objective to 1) study of making a documentary film about a person who has Alzheimer's disease with memories of October 6, 1976 2) make people realize the making of Thai history documentary film. This research is creative research used Participatory Documentary which is the filmmaker has more participated in the film such as interview voice in the film.

The result of this research show that the making a documentary film about a person who has Alzheimer's disease with memories of October 6, 1976 has the big issues on collecting information and editing because a person who has Alzheimer's disease always gave the same information so that it was hard to collect all information in a short period of time. Then, it’s effected the editing part either. This research reflects the factors of making documentary film and make people realize the making of Thai history documentary film.