Comparison

Comparison to similar documentaries.

A similar video to ours in another documentary about the Creative and Media diploma, this video is based around the learning of CRaM students and features mainly audio of interviews with people involved while cutting from interview footage and footage of what they are disribing. Also the text style is the same, simple white text introducing who is being interviewed and what they do. One of the main things this video has that may have worked well in ours in establishing shots of where the work is going on, we could have feature some establishing shots of Long Road, The Junction and Bournemouth University to show where we work.

Special effects...

We had planned to do some possible special effects, and I think that that may have been a good idea although we didn't use it, I think that some special effects in other documentaries look good. Not during the actual documentary part but for the intro there are a lot of possibilities we didn't use.

A video I found made by other CRaM students feature quite a few things that would have made our intro better. I think we should have used; establishing shots, quick cuts, moving shots, speed-up shots and other things that this video uses.

Comparison to original idea.

Our second rough cut included a lot of what our orginal idea set out to do, it features most of the footage we intended it to;

An intro, L2 interviews, samba footage, Simon interview, Gary interview, Bournemouth interview, Pete interview, Nick interview, Bournemouth footage, editing footage, fiver footage.

Although this rough cut does not yet have L3 interviews or music video footage, we have filmed it and it will be included in our final documentary.

We also included our original idea of simple text and music. But I think that when comparing this with the original idea, we could have included some special effects (maybe with the text) to show our skills a bit more.

I also feel that we didn’t use enough variety of stuff, we have planned to have some of the interview footage spilt screen with footage of the interview information, instead we just have interview footage then a cut to footage of what they are talking about then cut back to the interview. The spilt screen idea may have add some variety as the style seem very repetitive in our documentary.

When coming up with ideas we research quite a few different documentary to see some styles we could use, we looked at a lot of different interview styles, this video of an interview with Derren Brown, although very different from our final video, was one of our original ideas, having the camera move back and forth from interviewer to interviewee, and although I now see that this would have worked very well with our video, we could have changed our interview styles with each interview. For example having the interviewers should of head being show to see that it is an interview; also we could have experimented in editing what it would have sounded like if you were to hear the question on the video. The interviews could have also changed angles a bit more, all of the interviews in our video are from either above or below and are held still, like the Derren Brown interview we could have move the camera around a bit.

Although some of the styles used in other documentaries and videos may not work with the idea for ours, they are still some idea we could have tried, because our documentary seems a bit repetitive in the shot types.