Production
The first thing I recorded was the interview with my Mum. I knew from the early stages of pre production that I was going to interview my Mum for my documentary because she has experienced everything from the diagnosis to countless hospital appointments with me, also she has been a nurse for nearly 30 years so she has good medical knowledge and can speak clearly and professionally which was something I needed my interviewees to be as it is a serious topic. So my mum was the perfect fit for my interview and we sat down one Monday evening in January to recorded.
We got around 6 minutes of footage for the interview however the recording process was much longer because my mum kept laughing and could not focus, I believe this was because she was nervous about being on camera. Eventually, we got there.
I was very happy with the footage I captured. The picture was in focus, the sound as good- mum was clear and loud enough to hear her and the lighting and white balance was to a good enough standard where I felt a re shoot was unnecessary.
The thing I began to capture was my opening sequence. I wanted to have a sequence of me just doing something I do in my everyday life which is practising puppetry. So filmed myself walking up the stairs and going into my room. I did several takes of each one . However one a the shot of me walking up the stairs and the shot of me sitting down in my room have a slight glare from sun light coming in from the window. There was nothing I could do to prevent it or get rid of it but luckily it did not effect the overall quality of the footage nor did it stop me from using it in my final cut of the documentary
The next thing I did was film my interview. I recorded my interview in the studio at the creative studios where my classmate Thomas Quemby asked me the questions I had written. I was very happy with this footage as it was very much in focus, well lit and sounded good. The big difference between my interview and my interview with my mum is that my quality of audio was louder. This was because I used a external shotgun microphone to record my mum's interview where as I was using a radio mic, which I wore during the interview. The difference in volume was not a huge issue and I did not feel that I would need to alter the volume of these interviews in the editing process.
I filmed a few cutaways of a field in my village where I take my dog for a walk most days, I like gong down there as it's peaceful and the dog enjoys running along the open field. I go down there most evenings so I decided that as most of my cutaways are me doing things that I do in every day life that a couple of shots of the field. I recorded these on my Iphone and uploaded this footage onto my hard drive in order for me to add them to my documentary.
I recorded several cutaways of me doing things I do in my normal life such as me watching The Office, which is my favourite show, playing on my Xbox and even boring things such as dong the drying up or unloading the dishwasher. I have done this because I wanted to show that even though I have this condition, I still continue to live life as normal.
Most if not all of my cutaway footage was usable except the shots of me playing on my Xbox and the closeup of my Xbox controller. There was smudges on the camera lens which made it look out of focus and it did not look good. Luckily I had plenty of cut away footage that I could use instead so I was not worried.
I also took some cutaway footage of some of the stuff in my room such as mu Muppet figures made by Palisade toys from 2002 to 2006. I am a huge Muppet's fan and I thought that these figures represent that in the documentary. I have also filmed a cutaway of my Pop Funko Office figures to use as a cutaway.
As I began to edit my documentary together, I realised that it may have been good to have some cutaways of me doing college work so my classmate Jade Shafto filmed me doing some wok on my computer and got a good number of different shot types that were all good enough for me to use in my documentary.
Early on into my documentary process I was thinking about possible music choices that could accompany the stuff on screen. Some other stuff I considered were: Shake It Out by Florence And The Machine, High Hopes by Kodaline, People Help The People by Birdy and Below My Feet by Mumford And Sons. But eventually I settled on Believe by Mumford And Sons. I chose this song to feature in my documentary because I feel the lyrics and beats of the song fit perfectly with the tone of my documentary. The lyrics of "I don't even know if I believe" is something that fits very well with the early part of the documentary and is something I can relate to because it is something I myself have felt at times throughout the last 3 years.
I decided that I wanted my final part of my documentary to be where things start to pick up and show the more positive side of things and I chose Believe as my song because mid way through the electric guitar kicks in and the songs tone changes to much more upbeat song which also shifts the tone of the documentary.
I wanted to use some archival footage of some positive events over the last few years including photos of my charity day last August, Holidays to California and Florida and the KLFM young hero awards where I won the Young Hero award back in December . I incorporated these things into my project to show the positive elements. I had to import the images into Photoshop in order to use them because there was a problem with the header when I tried to import into Premier Pro directly. This was a slight annoyance, however it did not slow
As I approached the final stages of editing, I still hoped to interview both my dad and my sister, however I was wanted to keep the video to the same length as the song which is 3:47 and I had already nearly filled the time with cutaways and the other interviews, so I decided that the other two interviews were not necessary for the project.
I am so happy with how the project came out .
We got around 6 minutes of footage for the interview however the recording process was much longer because my mum kept laughing and could not focus, I believe this was because she was nervous about being on camera. Eventually, we got there.
I was very happy with the footage I captured. The picture was in focus, the sound as good- mum was clear and loud enough to hear her and the lighting and white balance was to a good enough standard where I felt a re shoot was unnecessary.
The thing I began to capture was my opening sequence. I wanted to have a sequence of me just doing something I do in my everyday life which is practising puppetry. So filmed myself walking up the stairs and going into my room. I did several takes of each one . However one a the shot of me walking up the stairs and the shot of me sitting down in my room have a slight glare from sun light coming in from the window. There was nothing I could do to prevent it or get rid of it but luckily it did not effect the overall quality of the footage nor did it stop me from using it in my final cut of the documentary
The next thing I did was film my interview. I recorded my interview in the studio at the creative studios where my classmate Thomas Quemby asked me the questions I had written. I was very happy with this footage as it was very much in focus, well lit and sounded good. The big difference between my interview and my interview with my mum is that my quality of audio was louder. This was because I used a external shotgun microphone to record my mum's interview where as I was using a radio mic, which I wore during the interview. The difference in volume was not a huge issue and I did not feel that I would need to alter the volume of these interviews in the editing process.
I filmed a few cutaways of a field in my village where I take my dog for a walk most days, I like gong down there as it's peaceful and the dog enjoys running along the open field. I go down there most evenings so I decided that as most of my cutaways are me doing things that I do in every day life that a couple of shots of the field. I recorded these on my Iphone and uploaded this footage onto my hard drive in order for me to add them to my documentary.
I recorded several cutaways of me doing things I do in my normal life such as me watching The Office, which is my favourite show, playing on my Xbox and even boring things such as dong the drying up or unloading the dishwasher. I have done this because I wanted to show that even though I have this condition, I still continue to live life as normal.
Most if not all of my cutaway footage was usable except the shots of me playing on my Xbox and the closeup of my Xbox controller. There was smudges on the camera lens which made it look out of focus and it did not look good. Luckily I had plenty of cut away footage that I could use instead so I was not worried.
I also took some cutaway footage of some of the stuff in my room such as mu Muppet figures made by Palisade toys from 2002 to 2006. I am a huge Muppet's fan and I thought that these figures represent that in the documentary. I have also filmed a cutaway of my Pop Funko Office figures to use as a cutaway.
As I began to edit my documentary together, I realised that it may have been good to have some cutaways of me doing college work so my classmate Jade Shafto filmed me doing some wok on my computer and got a good number of different shot types that were all good enough for me to use in my documentary.
Early on into my documentary process I was thinking about possible music choices that could accompany the stuff on screen. Some other stuff I considered were: Shake It Out by Florence And The Machine, High Hopes by Kodaline, People Help The People by Birdy and Below My Feet by Mumford And Sons. But eventually I settled on Believe by Mumford And Sons. I chose this song to feature in my documentary because I feel the lyrics and beats of the song fit perfectly with the tone of my documentary. The lyrics of "I don't even know if I believe" is something that fits very well with the early part of the documentary and is something I can relate to because it is something I myself have felt at times throughout the last 3 years.
I decided that I wanted my final part of my documentary to be where things start to pick up and show the more positive side of things and I chose Believe as my song because mid way through the electric guitar kicks in and the songs tone changes to much more upbeat song which also shifts the tone of the documentary.
I wanted to use some archival footage of some positive events over the last few years including photos of my charity day last August, Holidays to California and Florida and the KLFM young hero awards where I won the Young Hero award back in December . I incorporated these things into my project to show the positive elements. I had to import the images into Photoshop in order to use them because there was a problem with the header when I tried to import into Premier Pro directly. This was a slight annoyance, however it did not slow
As I approached the final stages of editing, I still hoped to interview both my dad and my sister, however I was wanted to keep the video to the same length as the song which is 3:47 and I had already nearly filled the time with cutaways and the other interviews, so I decided that the other two interviews were not necessary for the project.
I am so happy with how the project came out .
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