Evaluation

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Here is the link for my final evaluation.

Final Documentary

Evaluation

As my evaluation I am making a powerpint which I will present to my group. My powerpoint will include all the points from the evaluation questions, and will be backed up with pictures to show the typical conventions of our documentary. As well as information I will show some documentary makers who have inspired us to conform and challenge certain techniques.

Supporting Piece

This is my second supporting piece, i have chosen to do a magazine interview. In this interview the interviewee will be Ellie I will be asking her a variety of questions, such as what made them the documentary, what sort of conventions they used and etc. I tried to make the layout as readable as possible by spacing out the answers and trying not write too much information.

Supporting Piece- Group

For one of our supporting pieces we decided that as a group we could make a radio advert. We chose this as our piece, because we knew we could do it quickly but affectively. Whilst Ellie wrote the dialogue, I volunteered to read it in the final advert. The process of recording the advert was simple and easy by using GarageBand this process was easy for us, as we have used the Macs for nearly a year now. Before recording the final one. After we had recorded it, we looked into adding different sound affects to make it more affective, and more realstic. In the end we settled on adding a Police Siren affect towards the end of the dialogue, to add the effect of it being set in a real crash. With GarageBand you can change things like the speed, and the pitch of the voice recording. After trying others speeds and pitches, we decided that as our top is on a serious matter, the advert would be more affective if it was just a plan advert with no effects, other than the police siren.

Supporting Piece- documentary review

I am currently creating my documentary review, which is looking at the postives and negatives of our documentary, the negatives will be what I think we could've improved on our documentary. By doing earlier research into documentary reviews, I am trying to use the same language, and use the same points that they made in their reviews. I am obviously not copying these reviews as they are much different to mine. But they are helpful in finding out what's included in a typical documentary review.

Statistics

As part of our research we all did extensive research into car crash statistics. We felt that these statistics in this film were the most affective, and would have most of an impact on our audience. These statistics have been placed in our final documentary.

Audience feedback

As part of our evaluation we have to get audience feedback for our documentary. We aimed this showing at the target audience for our film.

Research- Documentary reviews

By looking at documentary reviews such as this one for Farenheit 9/11, i can see the typical style of language used in a review. Although some of the content in this review is to do with the documentary's profit, and is not useful to me the rest of the review discusses the storyline of the documentary. On the same website there are many other reviews which will be useful to me when writing my review. Now I will start to write my review by using microsoft publisher. Using similar language to the reviews I have already researched.

Draft titles for supporting pieces

These are my draft titles from http://www.dafont.com/ as you can see I have chosen my title for my documentary review, but just need to decide on which font to use. I have cut it down to either of these three styles.

This is also my draft background for my documentary review. I went with the theme graffiti, becuase it could tie in with the theme teenage driving. I am also looking at different types of graffiti that could go as my background. Because our subject is to do with teenagers and young adults, the graffiti theme is something that is often linked with teens. So i thought would make the review standout more.

Voice Overs

We decided to record some voice overs to put over the statistics in our documentary, so that the audience won't feel they are being bombarded with information and so it's easier for them to take it. The process was easy due to the built in recorder on the macs, we quickly recorded 4 statistics which will be played during our documentary. To make sure we chose the best suited voice for our documentary, we all did tests to see who's voice sounded the best, we decided to choose Ellie's voice as it sounded best with the nature of our documentary. Having finished recording them quickly, we need to now edit the recordings so that they fit in with the statistics.

Fifth Interview

As a group we decided that a further interview was necessary. We once again asked a teacher in our school to be our interviewee, this time we just wanted her to view her opinions on teenage driving. My group member Ellie put together a few questions to ask, they were quite simple but could be answered in detail. We decided to film this interview with a handheld camera, to give it a different feel from the other interviews we've filmed. Our interviewee gave indepth answers to all the questions that we aked,which is exactly what we wanted to get, and we felt this was the best interview we had done so far. Because the interviewee gave detailed answers,we have alot that we could put into our documentary and because all of the answers were detailed we can cut quite alot out but still have valuable information into our documentary.
We decided to cut out Ellie who was asking the questions, so that it wouldn't take up neccesary time in our final documentary.

Editing our final documentary

As we have finished all of our filming, in our last lessons we have been editing all of our footage together and putting it in the final order. As we have lots of statistics of car crashes in our film, we have had some trouble ordering them because we have so many. By putting them altogether it would be too much for the viewer. So we are trying to place them carefully so that it won't be too much for the viewer. To make sure that our documentary is easy viewing for our audience, we are trying different ways to order it to see which way flows better. We discussed in length what sections of our documentary worked together, and what didn't. In detail we discussed specific sections such as our interviews. We felt that although we already 4 interviews we needed another one to give us the response we felt we needed on teenage driving.

Interview- Blog styled

For our fourth interview, we decided to use a different technique of filming. As we are using the Apple Macs for our editing we thought that using the built in camera on the macs would be a different style of filming, and one that we haven't used before. Using this different techqinue of filming gives us a completely different angle and view point from the interviewee from the typical filming techniques we normally use. The interviewee talks about how one of her friends died in a car crash, and the effect it's had on her driving.

Storyboard pictures

Research- Driving Adverts

To get some more ideas for our final piece we are all doing individual reaserch into car crashes, here are some very effective adverts and clips I have found on the internet-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8QxZJZfU5Q
These are some of the most shocking driving adverts that i have seen, with the use of the emotional music some of these clips really tug at the heart strings. Even though we are not aiming to upset the audience purposfully, we are going to include such clips and adverts to make the audience feel more emotion towards our documentary. One of the editing techniques which was common in most of the adverts is the use of slow motion, this technique is very effective in focusing on certain things which are happening all at the same time. This technique would be very useful in our documentary.

Second interview

Our original plans to interview Jon Snow did not go to plan. So instead we came up with a back up plan, to create another interview but this time with the point of view from a dirivng instructor and their personal opinion of teenage driving. Because we didn't have much time to come up with this interview, we asked one of our teachers if they would mind answering some questions on teenage driving. We used a normal camera with a tripod so that we got steady shots, we also used the typical documentary techniques, such as having the intervieee bot in the centre of the shot but on the right side of the frame. Instead of reading the questions out, we gave our interviewee a piece of paper witht the questions on it. Our interviewee gave some detailed answers, but we felt that sometimes she didn't answer the question we were asking her. So we felt that maybe we needed to construct another interview which we could possibly control the answers we would be given.

Texting whilst driving video

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8203091.stm

Whilst researching different videos we came across this video which gives helps us figure out how to set up our video. This video is quite similar to how we want to edit and produce our documentary. Although in our final piece, it won't just be one storyline all the way through, we are thinking of adding some clips such as this one into our documentary to add a more emotional affect. With the effective use of editing, sounds this video certainly shocks people. The use of effective shots and angles gets the audience emotionally involved in the scene. When this clip first came out some people were against this video, saying that it was far too realistic and shocking to show people, however other viewers said that having shocking videos is a good way to educate some people. The aim for our final documentary is to educate and to shock our veiwers, we want to raise the issue of teenage driving and the consiquences of some peoples actions.

Draft interview

Here is an interview that myself and my group did in order to start getting ideas for when we start filming for our final piece. We wanted to see which type of shots would be affective for our style of documentary. We decided to add music into our clip becuase we thought it would make the audience sympathise with the characters who have lost their brother.

The shots that we use in this clip are similar to the ones that we plan on using in our final documentary, with typical shots such as the interviewees not being in the centre of the shot, and a panning shot to set the scene will be used frequently in our documentary.

Research- Survivor stories

http://www.duipictures.com/dstory.htm
This website is dedicated to survivors from car incidents due to Drink Driving. By reading stories like these, even though they are from the America, you can tell how much their lives have been devasted due to other people drink driving. Most of the stories are how the writers survived an accident, but the stories vary from someone who caused an accident, or how someones loved one caused an accident.
Reading stories like these really put into perspective how cautious you should be whilst being on the road, even though our documentary is to do with Teen Driving, Drunk Driving is very relavant with teens.
In our documentary we are thinking about putting in witness stories to add a sympathetic affect to our final piece.

Research- documentary reviews

http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/
Here is a webiste that is decicated to documentary reviews. The styles on this websites are all mostly realy life documentaries, filming people in their extraordinary lives. Some titles include Grizzly Man, The Staircase, The smashing machine and many more.
This website is useful for my supporting peice, because i can see how people lay out a documentary review, what style of writing they use and the tone of the review.
This is website is also useful as well as having reviews they also have trailers for the documentary, so i can see what type of shots and editing techniques they use.

Interview- Jon Snow

During the period before filming, we are always on the lookout for ideas to put into our documentary. One member of our group isin contact with channel 4 news reader Jon Snow, and he has kindly agreed to do an interview with us. We will ask him a range of question varying from his personal opinion of teenage driving, how many stories he reads that is to do with teenage driving, if he has been personally affected from any reckless teen driving.
We plan on doing a typical documentary style interview, with things such as only hearing the interviewers voice, the interviewee won't be in the centre of the frame he'll be either side of the shot.

Supporting Pieces

We have to do 3 supporting pieces.
For our group piece we will be doing either a radio jingle or a tv advert.
For my own pieces I will be doing a documentary review and a magazine interview. The basic plot for the documentary review will be someone reviewing the documentary that they have already watched. To try and make this realistic i will also talk about the negatives as wll as the postitives from our documentary.
For the magazine interview i will ask a range of different questions, from personal ones, to filming techniques used in the final documentary.