Monday, 12 May 2014

Commissions Unit- Reflection

I think working with Aimee on this project was a good idea, we may have had our differences but we both wanted the project to be the best it could and without her I don't think it would be as good as it is. There are some bad parts but working together over all made a project that I am happy with.

After handing in my work I found some faults with the sound on the YouTube version. Part of when the interview is being held there is a second quieter voice in the back ground. I think that I should have produced the script a lot earlier then I did, since there was a delay in the script it delayed the project being edited which then put more pressure on Aimee. I also should have helped Aimee more with editing as at points I think she could have done with the help. I found it very difficult to write the commentary for the script, I needed a lot of help to write the script from Helen as I just couldn't get a handle on it but hopefully it is better then when I first started.

I think sharing some of the work in the production and pre-production side has made it harder for me and Aimee to find defined positions such as director. But then by myself not looking at the footage it was over exposed and if I had looked at the work I might have been able to point out the issues with exposure and shaky camera work.

During the interview for the Salvation Army I should have asked more questions and got more footage but on the day we agreed that it was enough footage, but during this I was distracted in talking to the contributor. During the filming of the "Jane" interview I should have decided on more shots for the camera to get.
 

Commissions Unit- Script 9

While editing we found some issues with the commentary which I then had to change in the script. 

Friday, 9 May 2014

Commissions Unit- Commentary

This is the commentary that I gave to Aimee to record for our documentary, while reading it I changed some of the commentary to the original. 

Commissions Unit- Social Services

This is a letter I have made for the film for a illustration match to when our contributor 'Jane' talks about identity checking. 

Commissions Unit- Production Title








While looking into our production title we decided we wanted images to go behind our name title of "Roxmee" the combination of our names. We looked into colourful images that might make it look a bit different. The image would appear after a transition of our names are combined. 

Commissions Unit- Contributors request

Kevin Jennings, the warehouse manager at the food banks Medway requested that they could have some information and a picture of our group to go on their Facebook site. This is the email I sent them for Facebook. 


"Hello, 
Here hopefully is a photo of Aimee and I attached. 

Information;

Aimee Saunders and Roxanne Meats, studying Television Production at the University for the Creative Arts.
We are producing a documentary called "My Hero", after doing some research on the Food Bank network set up by Trussell Trust we decided we would like to make our documentary about the good work that the Food Banks do. 

I'm not sure what other information you could need, hopefully this is enough and hopefully the photo is nice enough.

Thank you for all the help, 
Roxanne Meats"


Commissions Unit- Editing

At the moment Aimee is editing the documentary and has asked with a bit of help with some ideas here and there. I decided I would go back over a BBC 3 documentary to look at the editing style. The Truth About Magaluf is the documentary that I am looking at for the example. They are quick edits and have small pauses, music is used and no transitions are present.