Before the weeks I’m about to write about we was going to do the documentary on a recovered heroin user, but several attempts to contact him he never answered.
7.11: As we were trying to find a new subject Rosie, contacted us on how she talked to a graffiti artist how would gladly be our subject. This day I, Joe and Chris started getting basic plot, story and questions.
9.11: This day we started our proposal, getting our story, plot and how we were visual approach to the documentary. Also Joe did a rough story board storyboard. Our meeting go well because we all come with a decision as a group and everyone is listing to each others ideas... 100% group effort.
11.11: Met with Nathan and saw his workshop, told him our ideas and our intentions. As we was at the workshop me and Chris was looking around and doing the recce forms. When we went back to Chris’s we completed our proposal and the PowerPoint, chase was the one who made the proposal as Joe written the proposal and I did a new storyboard that include time codes etc.
12.11: Was the day we did our presentation for our proposal, this went very successful and i think Chase did a very good job in his speaking; he was clear and very formal.
14.11: This day Chase and Chris got all risk assessment forms done and signed.
17.11: All equipment was booked and handed in risk assessments, we start filming on the 19th.
19.11: We went to the workshop to film him do a graffiti piece that was a character representation of himself. As i approach the filming with a spontaneous view, it made the filming interesting as it made me think more about what shots i wanted and how i didn’t know where he was going to go made it a challenge to stay on him.
20.11: We went around town to get external shots of graffiti and other work he has produced around town. We went to blueprint, oh my gosh and Russel youth centre. Today I did a little bit of filming but Joe wanted to do some so i let him try it out too.
24.11: Filmed the interview, this was in his house. I filmed a standard talking head. Our idea doesn’t involve showing him and what footage we have we can zoom in the edit to only show parts of his face I.E lips, eyes etc.
6.11: Today we captured all the tapes.
27.11-4.12: All edits kept deleting due to files being corrupted.
5.12-10.12: Chris was editing, we was all there to put ideas across and if Chris didn’t know how to do something i was there to help as I’ve been editing through the summer holidays and I’ve used the software a few times before.
11.12: Today, I edited the making of, had some trouble with this as one file would let me use the whole clip. I also started working on the DVD menu, which was quiet tricky too as ive only used this programme once before and that was about 2 years ago.
The finish product i think is good, looks like how i imagined it with slow fades to create the way graffiti is done in motion. All the interview bits we have chosen are relevant and have a point and the images correspond to them.
The only problem i have with it is that it seems to drag a bit, i believe the way to solve this problem is to make it shorter or have less of repetitive imagery.
This project was good for me as it reminded me how to use the Adobe Encore and the spontaneous filming approach. This is a good technique to have, the ability to capture that moment as its happening in its true honest form.
I like the fact that I wasn’t directing (which is normally what I do), it was less pressure on me but still a creative opportunity.
I think as a group we have done well, we all put our opinions but it was always a group decisions and if one person but a good point across it we would all agree. As a group we was very discursive and we found just us talking about ideas was better than storyboarding, all we did was make notes on the good ideas.
I have enjoyed the filming aspect and the group i have worked with, as we was friends anyway but i hadn’t worked with them, it was good to see how they approach situations and as they hadn’t been practical media course i think they did very well.
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