Revised Final Product

After looking at my final product, I concluded that some things on there, such as the sound quality and the relevance of one of the interviews were not quite up to scratch, so after re-editing and re-filming parts of my documentary, this is my final, final documentary.

Evaluation part 2

This is the second part of my evaluation which has been revised and edited.

Revised Evaluation

Upon looking at my evaluation I came ot the conclusion that it was in need of some editing, so here is the first section of the revised version of my evaluation.

Unedited footage

This is another section of unedited footage of the interview I had with the blood donor for my documentary.

Unedited footage

This is one of the unedited sections of my interview with the blood donor.

Screenshots

These screenshots show the editing stages of the carcrash scene in my documentary. Out of all the editing I did, I found editing this bit the most difficult as there were many bits I had to cut out because my car crash victim moved in an unrealistic way or started laughing which would of course, been entirely inappropriate for the scene. I thought this went reasonably well in the end.

Screenshots

These are some of the screenshots that show the editing stages of the interview I had with a blood donor for my documentary.

Unusable footage

These screenshots are of footage that I couldnt use in my final documentay because the camera wasnt focused properly which lead to the footage being of quite poor quality. I was quite dissapointed I couldnt use this as it had been of an interview with an Emergancy Biker and it had gone very well, but because of the poor quality I felt it would have compromised the rest of my documentary to include it and so I decided to re-shoot this footage.

Evaluation

This is the final question in my evaluation.

Screenshots

These are more screenshots of the editing stages of my documentary. They depict me adding background music to my documentary as well as adding text that is the right colour. I felt it was important to use symbolic colours such as green or red to illustrate the emergancy element to my audience. Upon research I did however find that to use the colour green for the text would be better than red because green a colour associated with being neutral and often healing wheras red is usually associated with danger or love, neither of which are appropriate for the way in which I would like the biker to be percieved by my audience.

Screenshots

These are some of the screenshots I took of the editing stages of my Documentary. I decided to use imovie instead of other, more proffesional software such as FinalCut because I felt I wanted to keep my documantey as simple as possible with continuity editing, which is a common convention of docmentaries. So I decided as I didnt need to use the effects that could be created in FinalCut, it made more sense to use more simple software, such as imovie.

This is the third question in my evaluation

Evaluation

This is the second question in my evaluation

Evaluation

This is the first question of my evaluation.

This is the edited interview with the blood donor that I have in my documentary. I felt it was important to have this in order to try and tell a different side of the story and try to get the audience to get a sense of the journey of the blood, from donor, to biker, to patient so to speak. One thing I think I could have done better would be to have the questions being said in the interview, rather than being text inbetween each question. I also wish I'd used a different location, as on reflection, the wallpaper does not look very proffesional.

This is the edited footage of the last scene in my documantery, I really wanted this scene to make an impact on my audience, so I am quite happy to say that out of all the footage in my documentary, this one has gone the best. was quite pleased with my script as I think it conveyed the appropriate message, I went against the common conventions of documentary voiceovers by having a female voice as opposed to the usual male, authoritive voice. Idid this because I wanted the voice to convey emotion and innocence more so than authoruty and I think in the context of this documentary, it works well.

This is my finished Documentary. Upon reflection, I think sound is the main area I wish I had better focus I think the music, sound effects and general noise quality could have been a lot better and if it had been it would've made it more enjoyable for the audiece, and probably more hard-hitting as well.

Car Crash

This is the car crash section of my documentary, this has been fully edited now and will be the thrid clip in my documentary. One of the things I wish I could have done better is the sound effects, the screeching of the wheels which imply the crashing part are not particulally good in my opinion and I think it would have been more effective were I to use a different sound, perhaps something that sounds more like the bang of an impact.

Survey Monkey documentary Analysis

In order to gain a better understanding of what my target audience need, I created a digital survey on Survey Monkey. I am now going to analyse the results.

The first quiestion I asked was 'What is your gender?' I felt this was an important question to ask because I would like my documentary to appeal to both genders. Of course, I would have hoped for a reasonably even number of male and female particiapants, however as my respondants are 66.6% female and 31.3% Male, I shall have to take into account the fact that the majority of opinions expressed in later questions are from female participants.

The second question I asked was 'Which category below includes your age?' I felt this was another important question as my main target audeince is aged around 25 and upwards and I was most interested to see the responses from people in that category. However, as demonstarted in the below screenshot, only 12.6% of the participents are actually over the age of thirty, which of course means I will have very little information to go on in the case of my preffered target audience.

The third question I asked 'What is the highest leevl of school you have completed or the highest degree you have recieved?' I felt this questiion is one that ought to be included because though looking at Audeince demographics I concluded that my documentary woudl be best suited to those in C1 through to A on the Socio-Economic scale. However, once again my survey seems to have fallen short in the way that no one with a degree has actually been a participant, although 50% of the people wh answered my survey have some college qualifications which I think indicates that I may be able to gather information from those who fall under the C1 category sufficently.

The fourth question I asked was 'Which of the following catagories best describes your employment status?' I wanted to use this question for similar reasons to question three, to make sure the participants were from my preffered target audience. Approximately a thrid of the participants in my survey are employed full time and a further thrid are looking for work. I am reasonably pleased with these results as these figures tie in well with question number four's 50% of people with college level qualifications as I think it's safe to say it's more likely to be those who fall under the 50% who are full time employed, as opposed to the other 50% who are not.

The final question I asked was 'Which type of documentaries do you enjoy watching?' With this question I decided to let participants tick all the types they liked to watch as I thought it would be better to get an idea of all the ones that would b watched, rather than just the audiences most favorite. I found it interesting how Reality TV/Documentary Crossovers and Mockumentaries were the most popular, I think this data is well worth taking into account with my documentary because it means my audience may want to watch somethign with some staged footage or a documentary that could also fall into another genre such as horror or drama etc.

Overall I would have to say that this Survey Monkey has not been nearly as succsessful as I would like, as I think it would have been more accurate if more people had completed it and if I had posted a link to it somewhere

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JZS5YDQ


This is a link to the survey monkey I created for my magazine article auxiliary task.

This is the last article I made, whether or not I use it as my final product will depend on what the feedback says.

This is one of the articles I created, whether it will be my final article will depend on the audience feedback from my survey monkey.

This is the final article that I created.

Legal restrains of film making

Legal restraints of film making

There are many legal restraints that filmmakers have to comply with, having done research into different laws I found that these were the most significant ones that have had the biggest effect on the way that filmmakers can work.

Video recordings act (1984)

"Commercial video recordings offered for sale or for hire within the UK must carry a classification that has been agreed upon by an authority designated by the home office"

In other words, this is the reason age certificates are on DVD’s and on the beginning of trailers there usually is a green screen as shown below stating that the preview has been approved for all audiences.   

Videos can be exempt from this if they are intended for educational, informative or instructive purposes, if it depicts sport, religion or music, or if it is a video game. However, even if it falls into this category, it would still need a classification if it contains any of the following:

Human Sexual Activity

Mutilation/Violence towards humans and animals

Human genital organs or human urinary/excretion

As my documentary will fall under the intended for educational purposes and I very much doubt it will contain any of the above three exceptions, it will not have to carry an age classification.  

The Official Secrets Act (1989)

This law was first passed in 1911 and then revised in 1989. This law restricts the media from publishing official secrets/information mainly applying to National security. This applies to both newspapers and films. IN the revised 1989 version, publishing official business became within the limits of the law.
In the context of documentary making, an example could be not being allowed to show images of Army/Navy/RAF basis as if this was seen by a terrorist group; it would make an attack very easy.

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988)

This law is in place so that people who create substantial work that comes under “literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, sound recordings, broadcasts, films and typographical arrangement of published editions” have the right to control the way that the work is used. These right cover Public Performance, renting, copying, adapting and even lending.

It varies depending on what the material is, but in the context of film, the copyright expires 70 years after the end of the year of year of the death of the principle author of the dialog, the director and the composer of the music for the film.

In terms of practical application for my A2 Media production, this means that I will have to ensure that I do not use any copyrighted material, including any clips of footage or background music in my production in order to avoid committing fraud/plagiarism.

     

Article draft

This is the raw the contents of what is going to be my article, my task now is to turn it into an actual article.