Editing: Documentary Progress

Today I carried on editing my documentary and I added text onto a shot of my documentary to outline what is being said in the voiceover and show the fact on the screen which is a convention of documentaries.

Editing: Solving problems

Initially I used this first shot of people crossing the road at Oxford Street which I sped up to portray how busy London is and played with a voiceover at the beginning of my documentary. However as I wasn't able to get the consent from the pedestrians to be filmed which breaches the ethical issues, I had to rethink this idea and filmed the shot below instead where the people featured are unrecognisable.

 

Editing: Documentary Progress

Today I added the shot of the interview scene into my documentary. I filmed the interview from two different angles to keep audiences engaged and adhere to the conventions of documentaries. The total time of footage filmed is six minutes so I watched it through seeing which sections to keep or cut. I also filmed cutaways which can be inserted over the interview.

Generic Research: Theory

In the past two media lessons we learnt about different theorists and media on the online age which can be related to my documentary. Theorist include Clay Shirky, Henry Jenkins and Charles Leadbeater and the image below shows brief notes and the Long Tail affect by Chris Anderson.

Editing: Using Keep Vid

During the research stage I established that my documentary would be best suited for Channel 4 and therefore during the editing stage I wanted the Channel 4 opening title to play to begin with. Due to the fact this is an existing shot used before every documentary I used the website ‘KeepVid’ and I watched a YouTube tutorial on how to use this so I could apply it to my own documentary.

To do this I googled the Channel 4 opening titles on YouTube and copied the link from the one I wanted. I then pasted this link into the KeepVid website and then downloaded the video from there onto my desktop and then opening it into iMovie and editing it in front of my documentary.

 

I also used a transition between the clips so it is smoother and more aesthetically pleasing. I experimented with different transitions as it was a new tool to me and I wanted it to look professional. Using this clip reinforces a brand identity and follows the codes and conventions of documentaries.

Editing: Using Quick Time Player

In order to make my documentary professional and using the codes and conventions of documentaries I used QuickTime Player to produce a shot to edit into my documentary. QuickTime Player allows you to record your screen in which I scrolled through Twitter which makes the documentary more interesting and keeps up to date with the constant changes in the media such as the proliferation of social media. The way I used this feature was by opening QuickTime Player on the iMac and then clicking New Screen Recording. I pressed the red button and thus the recording began. I scrolled down the twitter page about housing prices in London and once I was happy with the recording I pressed Quit QuickTime Player and saved the recording.

 

Editing: Documentary Progress

Today I have added more footage to my documentary and spent more time working on the pace of the documentary. I realised the importance of the lengths of shots in order to keep the audience engaged and varying between long and short takes for interviews and cutaways. Therefore I have been changing the different shot lengths today and continue being aware of this as I add more footage.

Editing: Documentary Progress

I uploaded the second set of footage onto iMovie and began watching and choosing the appropriate versions and editing them into the documentary. I have aligned many shots with the semantics in the words so the documentary has an aspect of synchronicity and flows smoothly whilst adhering to the codes and conventions of documentaries.

Production: Second contact sheet

Here is the contact sheet for my second session of filming, these images show the large amount and range of footage gathered whilst filming which I will begin editing into my documentary.

Planning: Organisation for second set

The second set of footage will have more footage shot in Leigh including an interview with an owner of a coffee shop and who recently moved from London to Leigh. I will also film more footage of London which I can insert as cutaways for voiceovers. The planning for this set of footage is below.

We will be travelling on the C2C train line from Southend Central to Leigh on sea and from here walking to the coffee shop which is on Leigh Broadway. This is easy to get to and we will go in the afternoon, once the lunchtime rush is over and it may possibly be quieter. Once we have filmed this interview we will walk down and along the seafront filming cutaways and understanding the area for the purpose of the documentary.

Here is a screenshot of messages sent between myself and the owner of the coffee shop in order to organise the interview which will be featured in my documentary.

The presenter will be wearing the same costume to the previous filming set for continuity and for the documentary to flow better. I have also written out the questions to ask the coffee shop owner to extract the relevant information needed for the documentary.

Planning: Second storyboard set

From editing and uploading all on my footage onto iMovie, I have decided to make another plan so I can get more footage. I realised I did not have enough to begin with but through editing my existing footage I have a clear understanding of what footage I need to place in my documentary. I have made more storyboards, for the second set of footage I will get, below.

Audience Research: Ethical Issues

I have been doing research into the ethical issues for the production of my documentary to make sure there is not any problems concerned with it. Therefore, I have received consent from all the talent in my footage to be largely featured in my documentary and for wide shots peoples faces are not recognisable or the footage is sped up. All of the talent shown are aware that the footage will be available for public viewing online and agree that anybody can watch it. As this documentary is public I have ensured there is no swearing or scenes of an adult nature such as drug taking or drinking alcohol and every shot shown in this documentary is of a PG rating.