CDM 301
Documentary
Producing
In this section below is my elevator pitch and evidence of me presenting my documentary pitch. From my previous unit CDM 304.
Elevator Pitch
My first elevator pitch was about my friend and her mum who came over to England from Ukraine. I talked about how I was going to ask them both questions about how there life was before moving, the journey here and what there life is like now. I also said about how I would ask them what they miss in Ukraine and what here journey was like coming over to England. My other idea that I pitched was about my mum. I mentioned how it would be about wha t was like to grow up in an abusive household. I want to dig deeper Ito the mental toll t took on her health then and also how it still affects her now. I also said about how I want to interview her about how she got into her job and why. The style of documentary that I said I want to do is a mix of an interview, B-roll and archive footage.
Click here to hear my elevator pitch
<----Here is my documentary pitch click to see
Here I reserved out the required kit that I needed to film my documentary.
Our next task was to create a risk assessment and cast and crew call sheet. Click below to veiw.
Risk assessment
Cast and crew call sheet
Next I made a recce and shooting schedule to map out what would happen throughout the shooting days. Click below to see.
Shooting Schedule
Recce
Final Product
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Write Up
Production
Post-Production
Evaluation
In my production and post production of my documentary I thought it went very well. I believe that the lighting was very well lit and set a perfect tone for the video. Ahead of time I planned the questions I was going to use and this helped lots as I wasn't put on the spot and my mum could prepare for what she was going to say. During the second half of the interview people came home and in the background there are slight sounds of footsteps so next time I will make sure everyone is out of the house for the whole tie or are being quite. When filming this documentary I was unsure of the actual use of a clapper board so I used it at the beginning but when we took a break I didn't use it again and that was difficult to line up the audio in post production so now that I know the correct uses for a clapper board next time I will use it after every cut. In post production I liked the way the music fit and the sound was good. When editing I should have been more organised with my work. Next time I will colour code everything and make sure it is not messy. When I was finished with the edit I released t was slightly choppy from where I had cut things out so next time I will try to cut out only bigger things and not little things like 'um'.
