.

2. Effectiveness of research. What
could have been better?
0 For my research I looked into different documentaries on of the
documentaries I looked at was ‘A Beautiful Struggle’. I chose to
look at this documentary for the style it was presented. I didn’t
want my final outcome to be just one continuous video I wanted
to have photos pop up. One of the ideas I liked from this video is
that they chose key words that the interviewees said and had
them fade onto screen. I wanted to include this idea within my
production but I couldn’t find an appropriate area of my video to
put it in.
0 I would have liked to look into more documentaries for the
presentation style so that I could have something to reference to
when editing my final video. I think that it would of made my
overall video look a lot more interesting.

3. 0 With my research I think I could of done more than I did. I
would’ve liked to have looked at documentary styles in more detail,
things such as camera angles or set up.
0 I looked a lot into the director Lucy Walker. I found that the
majority of films/documentaries have quite a deep meaning
behind them. One of the shorts I looked at was ’The Lions Mouth
Opens’ I looked at this one specifically because it follows one
woman's story which is the approach I took for my film. If I did my
research again I would've wanted to look into more of Lucy's work
to see if I could find more similar work ideas to mine.
0 I also looked into Asif Kapadia’s documentaries. Having looked at
Kapadia’s work in a previous unit I am already aware of the styles
of documentaries he produces. With his documentary ’Amy’ all of
the footage he used was found footage. I liked this idea of using
other cutaway footage, but after going through home videos I
couldn’t find any footage relating to the interview.

4. 0 Other research I did was surveys. I wanted to survey the people
close to my age range to find if they would be interested in the
style of film I'm doing. I found that most people would be
interested in a film like this from the answers I got. However I
think my survey could have been done better. I should have
gotten more of an age range of people to vary the answers.
0 I also did some online research. I looked at documentaries from
the BBC and ITV. From looking at these I research what sort of
people would watch these style of documentary. I would have
liked to have talked to people who have seen the documentary
and ask them what they liked about it.

5. Methods used, missed
opportunities?
0 When filming I asked the person being interviewed to be as natural
as possible when telling this story. Using this method, I think that
the outcome of the video looks natural and not rehearsed at all.
Which is the look I was going for, I didn’t want my video to look
scripted because I think it would take away the realism of the story
that is being told.
0 I think the missed opportunities for my film is having more than
one person telling the story. Because the story is about one main
person who touched many lives it could’ve been better if I included
multiple people. I think by doing that I would've broken up the one
video with multiple people. The issue would be getting everyone to
Harrogate to film

6. Final concept?
0 The final concept for my FMP is a pilot episode for a
documentary series. I decided this because I would like to
do a full documentary series like this in the future and I
wanted to see what a pilot episode would look like. I want
to have the main story include a lot of mini stories that the
person watching could relate to. I want the way the film
comes across to be as if the audience is being told a story
by the interviewee.

7. Planning, what went
well…what did not?
0 I think the overall of my planning went well. When planning where
to shoot the main interview, we kept running into time issues.
There wasn’t a set time for when filming was going to take place
until a week and a half before hand. This was an big issue because I
feel like everything was quite rushed, such as planning travel.
0 When going to film at filey, that turned out quite well. There were
no issues when out filming apart from the camera battery dying.
But we had finished filming by this point.
0 When planning who was going to do what, I found this easy
because I knew what everyone is good at and I was able to utilize
their skills.
0 When planning what I wanted my main shot to look like I
struggled, I didn’t know if I wanted it to frame the person being
interviewed or have them off to one side.

8. Production, what went
well…what did not?
0 When planning when to film there was quite
a few issues with the date for when I wanted
to film. Some people couldn’t make it due to
travel issues. However, the filming would
have been cancelled anyway because there
was work being done on the house.
0 During production I faced quite a few issues
on the technical side. When I was fist set to
film I had everything set up but when it
came to recording audio, the only thing it
would pick up would be static. I tried
recording the audio through the camera but
it wasn’t as good quality. Because of this I
had to re-schedule filming for another time.

9. 0 This was quite inconvenient for people within the production
some had to take time off work to fit the new date.
0 Another issue that I faced during production was that the SD card
I had was already full when I went to film. Because of this I had to
take a while out of filming to clear what I didn’t need off of the SD
card.
0 Filming the title sequence went really well. We got the shot I
needed in only about 3 takes, which didn’t take long at all.

10. Post-production, what went
well…what did not?
Finish filming
Import recordings
Footage
Import into new
premiere
Audio
Connect specific audio
and footage together
Trim each segments to
the required length
Put the audio and
footage in correct
order
Color
correction
Sound
correction
Import title and credits
sequence
Add
footage
effects
Add
audio
effects
Add
footage
transitio
ns
Add
audio
transitio
n
Import title and credits
sequence
Export full video
Upload video
Post-production fin
0 This diagram
shows how I did
pre-production
after filming.
0 After I imported
all of the footage I
had to go through
and sync up the
audio. This part
didn’t take that
much time
because during
production I

11. 0 used a clapper board before each take so that I would get a spike in
both sets of audio (recorder and camera) doing this made it easier
to sync up the audio.
0 Before each take I didn’t say what the take was (e.g. set 3 take 4) so
when it came to finding the right take it took a bit longer.
0 In my film I'm using some images I didn’t want to just use a plain
image so I decided to add a polaroid border to the image to have it
stand out from the video. Adding a border to each photo took a
while to do. I then wanted to have some movement within the
photo (parallax) so I had to re-edit all of the photos. This took me a
while because I'm not very skilled when it comes to using
photoshop.
0 Getting all of the footate and audio in order went really well and
importing the rlevent photos went well also. However, some parts
of the interview I couldnt find any rlevent photos to go with the
video because if this, I think that the video looks quite plain in
some places

12. How you dealt with
TECHNICAL problems?
0 During production I didn’t face that many problems. The biggest
one I did face was the first time I went to film. Everything was set
up but when we went to use the audio recorder all you could hear
was static. At the time we didn’t know how to fix this issue. So to
deal with this problem, we planned when we would film again.
0 While editing the film early on premiere pro kept crashing. To deal
with this issue I would have to re-start the application. Usually
this works. However in some occasions it would still crash and I
would loose and editing day. If this occurred I would take the day
to do some written work.

13. How you dealt with
MANAGEMENT problems?
0 The managemental problems I dealt with was mostly
to do with timing. I was the one who decided when we
would be filming so I would have to check with
everyone if that time would be suitable for them.
0 I also dealt with travel. I was in charge of booking the
correct train tickets for the crew. As well as getting
directions for filming locations and finding a parking
space at the locations as well.
0 I also looked into facilities we would need at the
different locations, (bathroom, food and drink).

14. How you dealt with
EMOTIONAL problems?
0 I didn’t really face any emotional problems
throughout my production. The only issue I found was
with the storyline itself and the way that it has been
protreyed.

15. Does your product meet
your intentions?
0 Overall I think my project has met my intentions. The
story was told better than I thought it would be. I
liked the overall outcome on how the video looks. I'm
happy with the music choices I made, I think they fit
really nicely where I chose to put them. I don’t think
that the music drowns out the person speaking, but
compliments what they're saying.
0 I would of liked to have included more graphics/ and
or images, to make the video less plain.

16. Clear outline of job role
0 Everyone who worked on my project had a clear
understanding of what their job role was. Even though
throughout production, job roles would change and
we would help each other with different tasks if need
be. The people that I asked to help me with my project
did a really good job.

17. Audience Feedback
0 “I really like your opening title shot I think that it
really draws in the attention of the audience.”
0 “after you telling me your full idea of a documentary
series with the same idea as this I would really like to
see more stories from different people.”
0 ”I do like how the story is portrayed, but I would of
loved to seen some home footage to back up the
ideas.”

18. Clear instructions
0 “Before filming started we talked through what would be
happening. Which I think was done clearly. I had been
prompted with what I was going to say and that made me
feel more confident when going in front of the camera. The
filming took part in my own home which was even better
because I was in a comfortable environment.”
0 ”I knew what my job was going to be straight away I'm
always driving her around. I was pleased to have known
the parking was looked into before driving there.”
0 “Yes my job was perfectly clear before and during the
filming process. Also my instructions were very clear and I
knew perfectly what you wanted me to do and changes to
the plan were easily understood.”

19. Problems/issues
0 “The only issue I found with myself is that I kept
looking at the camera during each segment so we had
to re-do it. I did think filming took longer than I
thought it would do.”
0 “The issue I found is that filming takes longer than I
thought it would so I found myself with nothing to do
while everyone else was off filming”
0 “There were initially a few technical issues at the
beginning but these were quickly sorted.

20. Management style
0 “I think the management style was good but I feel a bit
biased answering that because were related.”
0 “I was informed of the date and time well in advance
of when we would be filming with was good for me
because if I needed to I could of taken time off work.”
0 “Support was always available when one of us needed
guidance. You managed the situation well, managing
to keep yourself, myself and the interviewee calm
throughout most of the filming.”