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heres the free muics http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?genre=Jazz&page=4
and my film

19/05/15

 

Today I was cutting my video down as close to 10 mins as possible, at the moment it is at 12mins long  so it should be ok. It was very had to cut out parts of the video because I like it all. The sound levels were to high so I turned them down, so it's all good now.

14/5/15

Today I have be editing my audio interview. I needed to change the volume levels because the interviewee was quite quiet and I was very loud when I rerecorded my questions. It took longer than I thought it would but it came out good enough. I placed it on my video. I finished the poster that is advertising my documentary.

up date ae

I had a plan to fade in and out of the interview clips but I changed it slightly by adding text that shows the question I say. I did this within final cut. It looks good, I like it but it took a while to do.

I stayed in late to work on the green-screen section. I needed to match the silhouette I made to background shots. I used a pan shot looking down on the college and establishing shots of learning support. It looks a bit weird, but I think it will do.

editing

This morning I have been editing my green screen footage as well as arranging the interview clips I edited, ready to be put in order in my documentary. I couldn't work out how to make the silhouette so left it for this afternoon. I hope to finish this part by the end of the day.
The silhouette is now done.

Update covering changes I made to the original idea.

Since I wrote my proposal I changed lots of things.

In my original plan I was going to put stats just in final cut pro but I decided to do it in after effects because it is easier and I can put a cover over it and show it bit by bit. It should look better this way if I do it right.

I planned the learning support interview to be on video but the interviewee didn't want to be on video because she is shy. I didn't want to cut it out completely because that would make the video to short and I needed some expert knowledge with facts and statistics to make my film less moany and more like the documentaries in my research. I got her to agree to an audio interview. This meant I had to film scenery shots and make a green screen  silhouette to put up instead.

In other documentaries I looked at they had a conclusion part at the end that thanked the people involved and gave some kind of opinion. I decided to add this to mine to folow the conventions of documentary making.

In my research I looked at the film angle shots and the way things are filmed.(over shoulder,pan and shots of hands). I added some of the shots that I liked the look of to my doc. This will make it harder to edit though.

I took  advice from someone with professional experience to film some of my interviews with 2 cameras. It took more time than I thought it would to change the angle in editing but it looks good now I have done it.

I have added some still shots of me as a child when I talk about my childhood. I saw this in at least 1 documentary I researched. It was easy to do. It captures the mood and is effective.

I decided to add a quote on the screen as part of my introduction because it looks good in other documentaries I saw.

Poster designing

What i did to change my poster and why i did it.
I took a photo of the poster and put it on photoshop.
I took some words and made them slanted so that i could fit them on the path in the image. I had to turn the text into a vector image before I could use the perspective tool to reshape it.
I spent some time looking at fonts and choosing oner for my poster. To make it striking and draw peoples attention, I made the text 1 word, made it massive and put a question mark in. I made the text white on a separate black background. I resized the image to take out the margins.

7/05/15

Today I had to re film some footage as I had blue trousers on the first time so I couldn't use the original footage. I then continued to film some scrabble footage and thought about how I may design a poster, I will use the scrabble footage to break up some of my documentary.

5/5 Video lesson

I have finished my After Effects intro (apart from the quote bit).
It looks alright.
I put my old photos into the video where I talk about my school experiences. They suit it so it's alright.
I didn't really mention secondary school so there was no obvious place to put the second picture. The cuts were a bit jumpy so they helped to smooth out some of the jumps.
I thought I had saved my footage from Thursday but it was in the wrong format so I had to find the camera I was using and put it on from there. Next time I will make sure I save in the right format.
I have been experimenting with my green screen footage. It was not easy to work with the footage because I was wearing similar clothes to the screen and the lighting wasn't perfect. I may have to film it again but first I will see if I can use the footage the way I want. I lost quite a bit of time because I didn't do it right.

Jason's lesson Tues 5/5

Today we looked back at the grading criteria, and the meaning of reflection and refining.
We assessed our blogs to make sure they did everything they needed to do. I realized I need to add more to my blog:

• What is working well or isn't working?
• Am I on track?
• Have I done what I said I would do?

I also assessed the research and planning I have done so far. I have done many things that I forgot to post about in the blog.I plan to make a detailed blog entry on Thursday to cover these points.
I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with the blog workload.

Friday 1st May

I watched a  Richard Branson documentary video to find quotes I could put on screen. It wasn't a proper documentary, just a Youtube video  I have got 3 I could use.
I wrote notes on things I could use for a closing statement.
I started to think about the print work I will do.