An interesting documentary idea which is largely successful in it's execution. It makes for an interesting watch and despite a few technical issues, provides an effective end result. Some good work throughout the year and a merit grade is well deserved.
You have comprehensively explained issues relating to factual television programmes with elucidated examples and consistently using subject terminology correctly.
You have explained codes and conventions of factual television programmes with reference to detailed illustrative examples and with generally correct use of subject terminology.
You were able to plan and research a factual programme for television to a quality that reflects near-professional standards, showing creativity and flair and working independently to professional expectations.
You have produced a factual programme for television competently showing some imagination and with only occasional assistance.
Friday, 1 July 2016
Documentary.
About My Documentary:
In this project we had the choice of working alone or with a partner. I originally chose to work on my own as I thought I wouldn't have to rely on anyone else. However, after a lot of thought I chose to pair up with Tom. This was because I prefer to have multiple input and suggestion. It also helped with the work load after being off college. This meant that this was the wisest and best decision for me and it worked reasonably well.
To film we took out a camera from college as we didn't have our own at an adequate let alone professional standard. We did the filming over three sessions, the first two were filming Great Yarmouth and the last/third was filming an interview with Tom as hes local to Great Yarmouth and he also works there. The interview took a few attempts because of laughing and general awkwardness in front of the camera, however we managed to overcome this. I wanted the interview to be on the more casual side so that it stood out as a professional but less formal documentary. When filming we had to do a large amount of adjusting the ISO, focus and zoom mostly just due to the l brightness and reflection on the sand. We did try to make sure we started filming earlier on. The kept being to rough to film.
When editing my 3MW I made my stationary, still shots more interesting by using key frames. I made the travel between each key frame smoother and more visually appealing by adding an auto biezer to them. This in turn made the documentary look more professional.
In terms of transitions I mostly used different types of dissolve. I would have included more of a variety but other transitions just didn't look right or professional enough for my liking. I also used the transition, dip to white as this looked really good in one of the transitions due to the nature and lighting of the footage. This also gave a bit of variety to the transitions, although I did use different types of dissolve this created a more obvious difference.
For a couple of shots I edited the color in correlation to the key frames. This I feel livened up the documentary a bit making it more visually stimulating than normal color or black and white. For one of them I made the footage blurred with color and this just mixed up the type of footage to make it seem more appealing visually.
When editing in the interview I made it so that some of the vocals overlapped the footage. I did this to create more of a flow and to achieve a more interesting and less choppy final result.
With the introduction I made the footage blur in as I felt this looked better than a sudden video appearing. Our footage for the interview was a bit white washed but no matter what I put the ISO at the footage was still a tad whitewashed but I did mange to make it so that only his skin was whitewashed. If we had the time to do this interview again we would do it on a day when its less sunny or chose a different location. However, the location we did choose I felt was less formal and I didn't want our documentary to be formal.
When choosing the music we chose it from BenSound.com, this is royalty free music and meant that we wouldn't be infringing on any copyright laws by using it. We chose the track 'Epic' As it was informal and a bit comedic which meant that our documentary was less serious and I liked this about our documentary. I wanted the music to continue all the way through, especially as it was already the right size to fit our documentary's length. This meant that I would have to make the sound of the music quieter during the interviews. To do this I used key frames making sure the music's channel volume was lowered so that it could still be heard but wouldn't drown out the interview volume. I also used some audio transitions to make those transitions between volume much smoother.
My productivity during this project was reasonably high, I didn't waste much time and used my time wisely. I used all my college time to do editing as that's when I had the correct software and facilities to do so. I did practically all of my paperwork outside of college. This was because I could do this on the go using my smartphone. This was a great and efficient idea until my phone fried and I had to redo most of it.
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