Production Log 10

I felt that the documentary gave me the opportunity to develop my own independent skills as I managed to do my own documentary by myself. It also gave me an opportunity to go and speak to the expert who knew about the topic that i wanted to talk to them about. I got my own opportunity to see what undertaking the pressure of making the perfect documentary as I was doing it alone from the start.

During this final week of my documentary all I did is export my video to YouTube another thing is that i did is to check that the video at a good quality. Throughout the project I felt the only challenging part was to listen to advice of what my assessor to improve my documentary as i did not understand some of it would make sense in the documentary until the end.

There are was a lot of things i enjoyed whilst making the documentary (except pre production) I enjoyed the fact that i did not had to rely on any partner as this documentary was based on me. I believe my documentary convey the fact that being in a care is not all that bad. there are two part of the documentary that touch my heart which was the montage of the photo which illustrated my growth in care and also the last segment where i said my conclusion.

Arman Final Video

Production Log 9

During this week I showed the draft of my work to my assessor who was accompanied by his assistant and he gave me feedback about my work. I had made the decision to reshoot my interview with Claudia Morales as previously the lighting was insufficient and there was the background noise of a fish tank.

After viewing the documentary He advised me that I was excessive with my footage and to edit it and to pay attention to the advise he had given me. He was disappointed as he assumed that there would have been more progress. I took notes on what he advised to do. 

After the meeting I felt refreshed and committed to the task. Starting with the voice recorder i spoke in more detail  about the my situation and daily life in care being as honest as possible. I had to film more Vox pops footage which went according to plan  After that I voice recorded about my perception to the questions I asked the Vox Pops which is illustrated throughout my documentary. An example of what I asked what is the Care home like?

I showed my final draft to my assessor and he was pleased to see the progression that the documentary was coming together and near to it end. I finished the final editing to the documentary and am satisfied that went well.

Production Log 8

During this week I started to make the adjustments that I was advised to do so I could achieve better grade with regards to my documentary about the Care System. I started the improvement with the voiceover.Originally there wee some issues with the recording. I decided to re-record being cautious that I made sure that every time I finished speaking into the voice record i hung up for three seconds so therefore it would make it easier for me to edit the audio.

During the week when I was free I had to shoot some new footage for my documentary, this was for the intro for each segment of the documentary. Another task that I undertook was editing the voiceover. Whilst editing the audio  I noticed a problems that needed attention, throughout the audio there was background noise therefore I had to restart the voice record. 

In the media lesson I had to decide on new music that would be appropriate for the documentary. Towards the end of the week I looked back to see whether I had followed the advised structure for the documentary. I had to rearranged the order of the documentary as some were not in the right place.

Next week I will do a rough cut to the audio and I will continue editing my documentary.

Production Log 7

I have finished filming all the bits which I had to do and I made sure that the children were happy to what they said in the voice over there was no script about what they said about their opinion of the care home expect the question.

I showed the draft of my work to my assessor who was accompanied by his assistant and he gave me feedback about my work

• Make sure you record what you say on the voice recorder and give it three seconds so you can edit the sound. 
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• First thing was when i did the montage editing of the tour of the hour he said that he want me to talk about the situation about the care, more context about the care home and make sure it give some information led so the audience can understand situation.
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• At the beginning of the each segment he wants me to give intro and he want the change of location at the beginning as the location doe not relate to the care system. I said outside the care home which would be the best one.
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• He also suggested a new structure that i could follow within my documentary.

This is how it will go.

I will do an intro each segment, once I have done my intro it will go to me asking a question to the Vox pop relating to the segment of the documentary I am doing and I will be showing the viewers about my perception to the question. An example would be what is the Care home like?

Also this weekend i will be sending information to my assessor in regards to when i will be filming and the progress of it.

Next week I will be continuing filming and editing once I have visit a university.

Production Log 6

This week I asked to my careers to write a letter on my behalf  to social worker. thje reason why i had to do this is because I had to ask their permission on letting the children participate in my documentary.

I re did the shots of the segment of my daily life. This week nothing went wrong I continued doing the filming and editing. Whilst I was editing i encounter product in adding sound effect to make the sound effect sound realistic.

In this week I had done the voice over of the speaking about what the room are in the residential care home but in more. however i did not have much time to do it as i was very busy. i did the interview with my career speaking about their interest as a career After that it was all fine.

Also I started to edit the footage I did at home already in class which was the cooking and also the search to each sound effect that would work for my documentary again because they were copyright and i had to get not the copyright.

Next week i will continue editing and film.

Production Log 5

On Saturday morning I woke up very early to commence filming. I encountered lots of problem whist filming on my own. The carers at the care home encourage me to ask for help. I asked them to help me film in the documentary. Two of my carer me with the camera. One camera shows a high angle of of me cooking and the other camera doing two thing one. At the beginning it show me chopping food to pieces. Next it shows a close up of the food being cooked in the frying pan and also the rice. I fully filmed me cooking the food fully. What this does is that it allowed me to fully see what I was doing in the full process of the cooking.

Also In the weekend I partly shot a segment of my daily life. I encountered another problem on that day and that was the amount of interruption I had. I had to put a sign in front of everyone door to say that I will be filming.

However it did not work too well when I started to do the voice over speaking about what the room are in the residential care home. I overcome this issue when speaking to the staff about taking the children on a early activities which was rock climbing. After that it was all fine.

Also I started to edit the footage I did at home already in class which was the cooking and also the search to each sound effect that would work for my documentary. This documentary will be participatory mode.

Next week I will be continuing editing and filming