Today we showed the rough cut of our documentary film piece to our course leaders. We have previously shown the documentary to them when it was in very early stages of being edited together, and we made sure to carefully note the feedback we received so that we could improve upon it. This is an important part in any film-making project, as constructive criticism gives the creator a lot to think about, and certain mistakes or inconsistencies with the film which might not have been noticed before quickly become apparent.
One of the criticisms we received originally was that I don't appear in the documentary enough. This is an understandable gripe, as it can be quite confusing for the viewer to have a presenter that appears once or twice and isn't seem at all throughout. It can make it difficult for the viewer to feel a part of the documentaries journey, and as such they may quickly lose interest.
We improved upon this problem by recording a few more scenes of myself explaining what was happening, and also just had me appear in some cutaways. That way, I become more established as the presenter of the documentary, and also become a character of sorts that the viewers follow throughout the film.
Another, more technical problem we improved upon was the sound quality of our film. When we originally showed the rough cut to our teachers, we had not disabled all of the sound channels in each clip, meaning that a lot of traffic could be heard in certain scenes, which often drowned out the person who was speaking.
Since then however, we have improved upon the sound quality by messing with the channels and trying to produce the best quality sound possible.
I have also discussed with Andy the possibility of recording some kind of informal directors commentary for this blog, so that we can explain what is happening in our film with visual aids. This commentary should hopefully be completed this coming sunday and the blog will be updated.
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