Evaluation

Documentary Evaluation on Prezi

Documentary Completed

Please welcome the finished product... Illuminatum!

I'm the Editing Guy.

Seeing that I'm a perfectionist and the only person in our group who likes editing (I'm rather competent at it) I was unofficially made in charge of editing as the other guys, without thinking just left it to me to do. I worked on it with Mathew by my side who was my second in command in terms of quality and he was my second opinion whilst the other two guys were elsewhere engaged. I've had to use Garage Band on the macs which is absolutely fine for piecing together a video of your holiday or a family member's birthday party but it isn't all that great when it comes to doing technologically advanced stuff when making a serious documentary.

I've put in a lot of effort into the editing of the documentary and I'm still not entirely happy with the outcome and there are a few things which I need to address before I can declare it done.

A major problem I've come across is the sound quality on the interview with Barrie Rouse, it's not very loud at all and this could cause potential problems for the audience hearing him, when you have earphones in (on the macs), the sound isn't too bad but generally it's very quiet. This is down to the lack of equipment we have as an external microphone (for the camera or a handheld wireless mic) or a boom mic would have been great.

Enough of my ranting, it's almost done so watch this space. :)

Newspaper Advert

This is the finished product as far as the Newspaper Advert is concerned.

After the other guys made the logo and a rough template, I then "tidied" the advert up by ensuring that all the writing was clear, aligned to the centre and as crisp as it could be, I also created a QR barcode which I implemented to direct people to our potential website which people can access through their Smartphones on the move.

Editing

The editing of the documentary has been rather difficult, we had to cut different parts up of the interview to shorten it and to cut out the gaps and also to relieve the interview of things that weren't relevant to the documentary.

A great proportion of what we had in mind in terms of initial structure changed because of the lack of time we had to record new bits and then put them in.

The Script

Seeing that we are making a documentary, we can't really have a script for the whole thing as the recording of footage is genuine and on impulse.

The only parts that could have a script are the voiceover parts and the recording(s) of the narrator talking directly to the camera and hence the audience.

Our scripts were written just before the recording of them, and I wrote a big proportion of it as I was the person that would be saying it. We had to record just before recording because there was no way of knowing what we would be talking about before that time.

Newspaper Advert Designs

These are some of the designs we have for the advert, we are going to try and replicate this sort of idea on to a computer and see how it works out.