dfsa documentry- screen shots from editing

dfsa documentry - self reflection

how i thought the project went 

i think the project went very well. alot of the things ended up being last minuit but we ended up getting a well put together documentry i was happy with and i believe fit the breif but also was something i was proud of.


things that could of been better 

i wish i had spent more time on colour grading. i am also worried that it wasnt encoded right so might cause problems a viewing. (fix later) i also feel it could of included more things attacking bigger issues. i still like its relatablity. I also wish i had been more careful with lighting with draw my life. i also wished i had moved away from the pervious idea quicker as it didnt work.

how i feel my performance was 

i feel i did very well in this project. i took control when we needed it but also knew where peoples skills lyed so alowed them to work on them. i feel i was fair and allowed people enough influence. i made sure the film actually was made and worked alot of the treatment and overall stucture of shots and the edit. i kept everything on the right direction and put in the extra man hours to acheice the result i wanted. i think one thing i could do better would be to have better comunicaiton with the extent of the stuff i was doing.

documentry - story board and shot list

this is the story board i did for the documentry

there is a few pages for this 

this is the shot list 

i took both of these onto the shoot. 

dfsa documentry - editing

editing 

we had all the shots done at this point and were ready to edit. 

on monday we looked at all the shots we had and it was up to umor, chloe and luke to organise the clips and give them names so we could do the editing easier later. 

whist they did this it was my job to do the transcript for the interview. 13 double pages. 

this took the whole day of monday. i also looked over the naming of the files to make sure the fitted together. 

on tuesday i started to work on the script for the draw my life part. we thought it was the best idea to start this so we could get the pacing of the film. whilst we did this chloe looked for a song whilst umor looked into editing the gopro fotage to my prefernces. 

i did a first edit of the go pro fotage to show umor the way it should look. 

the whist he did that i worked on the script for the draw my life. i looked through the transcript and changed into first person and added bit of personality to it. 

on wednesday i work on the shot list for the draw my life with luke 

I looked through script and wrote the type of shots i wanted and practiced with luke. 

these are the final ideas for shots we can do. i researched into the techniques of draw my life and was ready to do it the next day. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-%22Draw-My-Life%22-Video

also this day i did the paper edit. 

on thursday we did the draw my life part of the film. 

we set up the shot and set the lighting using my dslr and led light. 

we then went through each shot and did the draw my life for it. pictures of the set up was taken by chloe. the me luke went through each shot. it went pretty well. 

on friday i wrote the script for the voice over for the walk. i also found our voice actress. 

this was two 4 page documents. it took all day. as i did it i help umor with the prelimary edit of the draw my life and other parts. 

on saturday we did the voice over for the documentry. me and umor met up with lainey and set up my dslr with shotgun mic. this went well. we made sure she was comfrtable and had a good idea of the snynopsis. 

we the listened through the parts and started organising the edit. 

on sunday we edited the voice over and started cliping it to visuals for the draw my life. by the end we had all the draw my life clip to each voice. 

sunday night i went through the second part of voice over making each voice clip seperate and the best take. i then organised the visuals for the walk part of the doucmentry and running part. 

on monday. I put the sound togther with the visuals i did. this took a while but ended up going well. i then gave it to umor to do the sort out the draw my life. i then put the race scene togther i did and did a bit of tweecking and sorted out levels. then umor took over the racing bit under my direction to get it right. whilst he did that i found and downloaded the soundeffects and put them togehter to create the sound scape. 

then we put it all together a i smoothed it out and made sure it all fitted. this involved cutting bits i didnt like. 

then we made the music go over the top. 

and finally added the colour correction adjustment layer. 

finally we exported it. 

(i'm not able to open the file on my laptop so I can't show the edit right now. but it should be able to be seen on umor blog for now i hope)