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Producation Log Week 4

Week 4

This was my final week on my Documentary production and therefore had finished all filming and all uploading. I then started to finish of all editing. The main things I had to edit was the interview with Kenrick Sandy. This also involve dthe opening sequence for Kenrick Sandy when introducing him.

By Thursday I was finished with all editing  and then got my teacher to look at my work so I could see if there was any changes to be made and this left me the whole day of Friday to make these changes.

Once my teacher looked at my work I realised that I had a lot of work to re-do to amke my documentary better some of the improvement my teacher said was;

-To always have a voice over or music in the backgroudn because it makes the documentary more interesting.

-He also said some of my vox pops were un-necessary and un-clear

The major thing I had to tackle was taht I had to cut down a lot of stuff from my documentary as when I first done it the time timing if my documentary came up to 12minutes and the problem my teacher said was there was a lot of stuff in there that did not need to be in there. I also had to cut the interviews down as tehy dragged on.

This was a big problem as I had to find what things I could take out and how I could still make my documentary look good.

Production Log Week 3

WEEK THREE

Week three was the last chance for me to film any extra bits I needed to do. I started off the week on monday by uploading the footage I had filmed over the week, this would have been all the footabge I had filmed with I.M.D and Boy Blue. Whilst my footage was uploading that I filmed I decided to get the footage from dance work that Kenrick Sandy had done which was all from the internet (Youtube).

 So this week was mainly getting through downloading everything I needed from online, this meant that I had to put more time into my work making my hours of editing longer throughout the week instead of just making it during lesson time. 

I also had to go and do my last bits of filming, this included my interview with Kenrick Sandy at Centre Stage dance studio where I had to plan call sheets and allow myself to film on a quiet day at the studio as I didn't want the same problem to occur that had already occurred. 

Once I filmed the interview with ken rick himself, which was on the wednesday I then had all my time to work on editing my work. This gave me time to do all the voice overs that I needed to do. 

Production Log Week 2

WEEK TWO

The beginning of this week I decided to upload all my work to the mac, so I could start editing the footage I already filmed. This allowed me to look back at what I filmed. I realised when editing the westfield interviews that the noise levels were high which affected the ability of being able to hear the the vox pops clearly. This resulted to my only option by not being able to use the vox pops where the noise was to loud for example this is mainly seen through the interviews that were outside Stratford westfield.

After looking at editing and uploading the footage I had filmed I made good use of my lesson period time whilst the vox pops and other footage was uploading. It was here that I was able to film some shots of me talking directly to the camera (piece to camera). This was short and simple and consisted of me going over IMD's interview and allowing me to bring up my next topic which was the show with my dance partner and I. I wanted to use this time to film simple but effective shots where I coudl really enhance my editing skills from different angle shots.


Once I had filmed the piece to camera of me speaking directly to the camera about my next
topic being me and my dance partner and us about performing a show. This involved me also making call sheets for me to get Nicole to be here and the camera operator Guneet Sidhu.
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Production

That weekend I went to Wandsworth were the camera followed me and my dance partner to our show at the Lost Theatre this was to add some depth into the documentary. I wanted to allow the viewers to actually see what a dancers life is like and I believed it really did. It showcases the tech run, the travelling to the venue and the performance. 

This week I had to overcome sounding issues with where I was filming but this genially helped me in the future weeks to come. I also has to overcome my organisation skills as I had to arrange a lot of things for the weekend for the filming of the show.

Production Log Week 1

WEEK ONE

Week One of my documentary commencing together was mainly about the planning, I had to sit down and consider what things I wanted to film when and what order they would most be easier to do them in. I looked at the people I wanted to interview and when it would be best to call them down to film them. I also had to look at the venues, for example the dance studio being the main problem as dance classes are going on I had to see what day would be the best to film the interview with Kenrick Sandy due to noise.

Wednesday: Coming away from what I planned I decided to go to Westfield shopping centre with Guneet (Former Chadwell Heath student) who was my camera operator. This was to film the opening speech 'Should dance be in the Olympics?' and to film the box pops. This felt most realistic to do as I did not need to do call sheets for because it was a public intake of the subject.

Pictures of Stratford Westfield shopping centre 

After filming the box pops, I decided to also that week film I.M.D/Boy Blue members at centre stage dance studio, this was to add a variety of opinions to my topic and gain expert opinions (I.M.D) as they are a competition dance based group. This consisted of me asking them questions which ran to about 1hour of filming, as I needed to film cutaways as well. 

After reflecting back on this week, I believe there was not many issues, as I didn't film much and didn't have major things to film. This week was a successful week because I done the things and I need to do in the time frame I had.

Pre-Production for Documentary

Budget:

I completed the budget which included all the things I will need for my documentray but in the set amount of budget I was given. Looking at teh picture you can see I still have money left over which could be for emergenvy and so on.

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Crew List:

I have also completed the crew list which is just a document that shows who will be managing what parts of the documentary.

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Call Sheets:

Underneath shows my calls sheets that I have put together for each time I need to call different people to different shoots.

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Risk Assessments:

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Location Recees:

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Production Schedule:

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Narrative Arc

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