From this unit, I have gained so much knowledge from what I previously knew before I started this project. From learning how to properly produce a fictional short film and go through the filming process to learning how to edit sound when filming outside as this documentary was the first thing that we’ve filmed properly because of the pandemic. Throughout this project, I have gained skills from communicating with clients to booking locations and that has been enhanced through the process of filming this documentary.
Researching was the first step in this documentary. Using the knowledge that I've learned from watching my documentaries that I had chosen to analyse; I had a discussion with my team, and we came to a general consensus as to what we wanted our documentary to look like. We wanted some calming, relaxing piano music to put in the background of the documentary to make the audience feel inspired. We took the inspiration from this from the Captain Sir Tom’s documentary that I analysed before filming. We attempted to try out different camera angles for our b-roll footage to engage the viewer and keep them interested and from this I think it worked very well.
In this unit, I had many challenging roles that I was chosen for, these were: producing, Covid supervising and editing. This was a challenge for me as I had to take on these different roles. In my opinion, producing was the hardest role to take on because I had to deal with unexpected change in locations and changes in the schedule. I had to work around the client’s schedule as well as our own and tried hard to make them feel comfortable and willing to help us film the project.
With the contributors, we wanted them to be inspirational and have impacted on a few people during this hard time. One of them that we wanted to use did not want their face or voice to be recognisable on the final edit, which we then decided on that it might be a bit of a challenge to film so we didn’t film with them.
When it came to filming, one of the members of my production crew could not make it to the shoot in the park so I had to be director for that shoot, unexpectedly, but luckily with the support of my team we managed to get over that obstacle quite quickly and I filled in for their role. In the post-production phase, we had a problem with the audio as it was very quiet and hard to pick up the audio, this might have been because we had problems with the clip microphones as we didn’t know how to sort them out as they were being very unreliable, so we ended up using the Boom microphone to pick up the sound and I had to increase the decibels of the clips in the editing phase which made the audio go a bit unclear but I managed to try and tidy it up the best I could in editing.
If we had more time to complete this unit, we would have planned a bit more with what days we were filming so everyone on the crew can attend the shoots, we would film the interviews again and we would work out how to work the microphones. We would consider interviewing inside rather than outside so that the issues with the noise of the wind would be removed. Even though this unit was very challenging for my group, I am very happy with the final product and I am really happy with how well we, together, worked as a team.
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