Fifth Interview

Our fifth interview was something that we felt needed to be added to our documentary in order to relate further to teenage driving. I constructed four basic but in-depth questions to ask, so that the interview would be developed yet succint. Hester filmed whilst I asked the interviewee the questions. (This is shown within the top video). This was constructed by using a hand-held camera, once more creating a diverse shot to the ones in which we have displayed throughout. The interview was of great success, as the interviewee gave detailed answers and therefore provided the group with one of the best interviews that we have constructed.
It has been discussed however, to remove my voice of asking the questions within the interview due to the fact that the person gave insightful answers and therefore we felt that it would be more effective to just have the interviewee speaking, similar to our other interviews. We have no completed most of the shots needed within our documentary, allowing us to focus on completing the editing process.

Editing Footage Contin...

Throughout the last few lessons, editing has taken priority within lesson time, with the group as a whole discussing the fluidity of the documentary and which shot would follow on from the next. This was time consuming as we all had different imputs into what we thought would work, therefore we had to make changes, such as cutting interviews in order for them to remain concise and relative to our chosen subject. We also continued bleeding the shots of statistics in order to reflect the taboo subject that we aim to portray throughout. We have now come to the stage of seeing the documentary coming together and have decided another interview is needed in order to show diversity within people's opinions of teenage driving, something that we were able to discover as the editing process continued.

Editing Footage

We have realised that in order to progress further with our filming, that we need to begin editing footage together so we can identify what other filming needs to be done and what areas we ultimately need to work on. Myself, Leanne and Josh discussed in great detail the order in which we wanted our documentary to flow and were therefore able to begin editing parts of the documentary together. We agreed to begin our documentary with archive footage, something we felt would create impact within the opening stages of the film. We were then able to make a list of the order of narration as well as writing down and recording other areas that we needed to focus on more, for instance we came to the conclusion that we needed more archive footage, which was possible to identify as the editing process began to develop. This is something we need to expand and develop further.
We also started to research different types of music, such as 'Booming Reverse' on Itunes, to try and understand what would reflect the topic of our documentary, as well as being able to appeal directly to audiences.

Fourth Interview

For our fourth interview, our group discussed creating a different type of interview, almost like a visual diary about an experience of a teenage accident. We felt that this would provide a different element to our documentary, as well as appealing to the emotive elements of audiences. We completed this by using the in-built camera within the Mac computer, something that we have not used when filming before. This was a new experience for the whole group, however provided variation to show diversity within our filming. Now that we have completed three interviews, we will begin focusing on editing together all of the work we have done so far, in order to see what else we need to film, resulting in our 5 minute documentary.

Third Interview

We decided to construct another interview, in order to show a different perspective of teenage driving. We used the questions that I composed in order to provide guidelines for the person being interviewed, which was helpful not only for her but also us filming as we were able to identify that by doing this type of interview, the conversation was able to flow and therefore resulted in an effective interview. The interview was successful as we were able to conform to the typical conventions of documentary making, by ensuring the person being interviewed was placed to the right of the screen. This is something we have aimed to do throughout or interviews, creating diversification and impact within the shots. We were able to work well to produce a succint yet powerful interview, something we aim to convey within our third interview, which we are currently planning for.

Creating Questions For An Interview

Whilst other members of the group have continued editing, I have decided to create a set of questions for one of our interviews. This interview will be with a driving instructor, showing him discussing the harsh realities that passing the driving test can bring. Although there will be no interviewer actually asking these questions, they will help to provide a guideline for the person being interviewed so they are aware of the type information that we ultimately want to find out. These questions also allow me to think more creatively about the information that we need to include within our documentary, as well as providing another in depth and relevant source to show the impacts of teenage driving. These questions may be adapted and developed further, however provide a starting point and guidence for the driving instructor. This is something that we hope to film within the next lesson.

Supporting Piece 1- Review

Now that I have conducted a sufficient amount of research for my supporting pieces, I have begun figuring out a layout for my review. Using the information collected from the research, I have come up with an idea to display the top 5 documentaries of the year, ours featuring as number one. I have done this by editing a film-strip template and have decided that i will copy pictures from each documentary within the film strips to show the order of the top 5 documentaries. I will then write the reviews next to each image, as well as giving each documentary a star rating. This is a typical convention used within current layouts of reviews and something that I aim to incorporate into my own review. I have also experimented with different types of fonts and styles, by the use of such sites as http://www.dafont.com/ in order to reflect the light-hearted element of the review. By doing in depth research and creating my own review, I have become more understanding of the requirements needed within the creation of reviews and have also become more familiar with the Publisher format, using different templates and backgrounds for example, as this is the programme I am using to create the review. This is an example of the beginnings of my development in creating my review, however, there is evident improvement to be made as I will experience as I begin to develop my initial ideas.