Audience Feedback- Filming

After several lessons of editing, we have finally completed our documentary. In order to gain critical perspectives and constructive comments, we showed our documentary to a selected group of students, all of who fell into our target audience, allowing them to watch the documentary and create their own opinions on what they thought was effective and areas that they thought could be improved. We then recorded this and were able to watch it back as a group in order to see the areas that worked best and where we could develop our documentary further. From the comments given, it was clear that our documentary created impact and drew people in to the harmful effects that driving can have, due to the fact that it was something they could relate to as they themselves were beginning driving too. Some of the transitions however, were said to be short and needed lengthening as well as becoming more smoother from one shot to the next, which is something that we took into consideration and ultimately changed in order to relate entirely to our target audience.

Examples of Editing- Statistics

Above is an example of some of the editing that our group have done. This particular clip shows statistical information, representing how we took a shot of the motorway from above and them incorporated statistics over the top of this within iMovie, in order to create effect an impact. From this clip, we all realised that the use of a voice-over would add further effect to the statistics, which we recorded at a later date and eventually added to our final documentary. By group discussion and experimenting with shots such as the one above, we were able to make successful changes in order to enhance our documentary.

Fonts

I have discovered through extensive research that the title of an interview is one of the key features of an article, as it is one of the areas audiences are most attracted to. The actual title as well as the title font is pivotal, therefore I used http://www.dafont.com/ to create the font shown within the picture. I felt this font and title was relevant and help to reflect the genre of the article.

Supporting Piece 1 Part 2- Research

Now that I have completed my first supporting piece, I have continued researching the layout of interviews, particularly within diverse magazines such as 'Heat', so I can get a distinct interpretation of what it features magazines require from an interview. I have also been looking through old magazines for inspirations on layouts and colours, something that I will take into consideration when creating my own interview. I will now begin finding the most appropriate 'Microsoft Publisher' format, in order to give me a starting outline for the beginnings of the structured interview. I will have to keep in mind that the use of relevant images helps attract audiences to the article, therefore aim to incorporate this within the interview.

Supporting Piece 1- Development

Whilst other members of the group continued editing, I have continued to develop my supporting piece further, by collecting information on well-known documentaries and relevant images to put into my review. I have used features such as star-ratings in order to conform to the conventions of the layout of a review. I now have to wait until our documentary is completed so I can add images into my first supporting piece and be on my way into completing my first supporting piece. Now I will begin to look for improvements that can be made to my supporting piece, by researching further reviews in detail and looking to see what's already successful within the current market. I will then begin to start thinking about researching my second supporting piece: a strucutred interview, again by researching what's already popular with audiences.

Voice Overs

Now that the majority of editing has been completed, we decided to begin to discuss which member of the group will be doing the voice overs. All members of the group did a test for this and concluded that I would be best to take the responsibility of this. The voice overs were simple and quick to complete, using the built-in camera within the Mac computer, enabling us to efficiently create several voice overs that'll be featured throughout. We now have to edit these appropriately into our documentary, along with viewing the documentary several times in order to make changes and continue to see which elements work well, in order to result in a detailed and relevant documentary.

Week Without Filming

The week before last, we spent the week focusing specifically on working on editing, concentrating on the way in which each clip successfully transitioned into the next. We did this by discussing within our group elements of the documentary that worked, e.g. the interviews, however we discovered some features of the documentary lacked relevance and therefore resulted in us coming to the conclusion certain parts could remain out of the sequence, for example, an image we shot of a racing car. Last week, our attention turned onto the exam part of the course, meaning that editing and progressive work on our documentary wasn't as successful. However, this week, we have commenced our editing work, finishing off last bits of sequencing the documentary and deciding on the need to create voice-overs which will be read over the statistics.