Week 12

Evaluating the project

Although we had some restrictions and had to adjust our idea, over all I think the final 4 minute documentary turned out satisfactory. Instead of it being a poetic piece, we took on the interactive mode of documentary. We found this was the most convincing and affective, as the conversation ran smoothly and the interviewees were at ease and more comfortable.

Editing the sound appeared challenging, as the levels of each interview were different. However we added in some atmospheric sound and managed to bring some of the clips sound higher and bring the others lower.

We used the B roll to both highlight and contrast what the interviewees said. For example in one interview, she mentions that as she arrived everything was broken, as she lists the objects - light/tap we matched it up with shots of a flickering light and the sink. When the film goes into critiquing the new accommodation we used b roll of the construction warning sign followed by signs that read community over the interviewees talking about how if it wasn't for the cheaper accommodation they wouldn't have been able to attend the uni and how they feel there will be a lack of community.

Week 11

Editing 

This week we started the editing.


Once we'd watched all the footage, we created a paper edit. 


Each interviewee was named differently, in order to differentiate and make it easier for us. 

We then created a project and started editing the interviews, using the razor tool and cutting out all the questions so that it was just the answer. 



Once we had cut each interview, we sectioned them off in order of the answers. This gave us a rough cut of the interviews.

We then started piecing the film together and using certain lines/phrases and creating the pace of the film.


Once we had all the interview answers in place, we started adding in B roll, using it to describe what the interviewees were talking about but alsoa t points contradicting.

For example we had the interviewees talking about how the new accommodation that was replacing East Slope was more expensive, which didn't make sense as it could restrict people from coming to this university, over this we had shots of the construction site, danger warning signs followed by signs that read 'community'. 

Once we had that in place, we added in music. This really moved along the pace of the film. The song we used we felt fit in with the theme, as it was a song from the 80's and created a sense of nostalgia. 

This was another film we watched in a previous workshop. Although I personally did not really like the film, after watching the footage we got I thought similar to in this film, we could use some quite abrupt and brusque edits between the interviews.