Tuesday 16th October- Confessions

          Today was a fairly boring day, I had watched over the documentaries we did over the weekend and noticed some needed adjusting slightly such as a too quick shot, not stabilised enough etc but my main concern was the fact that the second documentary gave the impression that the farmer had passed away or something similar. I suggested we should add a soundtrack just during the credits, something more cheerful and uplifting instead of nothing at all. Just to save time Becky decided to use the soundtrack we used previously on the last Documentary, which worked pretty well. We did the necessary adjustments to the sound levels and finished off by rendering it.

         Jamie had previously mentioned that we should gather shots of the pupils, the images and artwork they produced whilst at Dolphinholme so that our first documentary had a more range of footage when Richard, the art teacher, talks about the benefit of being at the farm. We haven’t yet got equated with all the students of the course so we went during class hoping that they would all be there and most of them were. We wanted to give the impression that we had taken the footage whilst being at Dolphinholme so we simply got close ups of the artwork and did some pans & tilts so that if would look more interesting. Whilst we was doing this Becky was editing the colouring on the confession footage, so that she wasn’t just waiting for us seeing as it was a simple job of recording art work out a book. We gathered a range of what we could and looked it over; Jamie was the one that recommended using it so we put the footage onto a computer for him to look at. We didn’t really want to add any of the new footage as Becky, Jordan & I believe the footage we use in the documentary is good as is and adding and replacing footage is just an unnecessary inconvenience.

         Becky had finished editing the colouring on the confession footage so now we had to decide on how to structure the sequence. I came up with the idea of putting each confession into categories, so that we would be easy for the audience to understand and follow.

 

Re-written from notepad

Categories

Fear	Accident	Beer	Ambition	Random
James Hannah Lauren	Josh 2 Becky Rebecca Emily Sammie	Barney Lewis Will Alex Tim	Josh James “Boo” Lee Matt Jordan	Ryan Heidi Fozia Adam Ryan 2 Charlotte

         Editing some of the footage was really difficult considering some would say their confession but then unnecessarily expanding their answer which was making their segment longer than necessary. Also during some confessions we would either get flashes in from other cameras making them useless or some shots would pick up a lot of ambient noises. The ambient noise would have been caused by the fact we were in a barn, it’s windy, full of goats and cold students. Luckily creating something like this is usually quick and easy, seeing as the footage was of students confessing, then the final product should be aimed at students so the product has to be fast paced and simple as well as funny. This is  why I was determined to have Tim as the final shot to cut from seeing as it is kind of funny and the fact he winks add a little effect to the audience of enjoyment.

Here is the shot list.

• 164- Josh Opening (we used him because he says “My Confession” really clearly and we want to use it as an opening to everyone else’s, rather than everyone saying “My Confession....”
• Title- Blackburn College Dolphinholme Confessions
• Title-Ambition
• 164-Josh (full segment)
• 168- James “Boo”
• 162-Lee
• 174-Matt
• 177-Jordan
• Title-Fear
• 165-James
• 183-Hannah
• 186-Lauren
• Title-Accident
• 178-Becky
• 187- Rebecca
• 196- Sammie
• 195- Emily
• 176- Josh 2
• Title-Random
• 173-Charlotte
• 178- Adam
• 166-Ryan
• 190- Heidi
• 193- Ryan
• Title- Alcohol
• 172-Will
• 181- Alex
• 171- Lewis
• 179- Barney
• 194- Tim
• Title- Thank You

         We finished off by adding a soundtrack to the sequence, we used; Better Days by Adam Drake & Tom Jenkins. We also added the sound effect “Fill Left” just so that all audio was smoother. Now I have finished with this I can start focusing working on my first assignment.