Thursday, 5 January 2012
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Question 3 :What have you you learned from your audience feedback?
Conclusion of Target Audience
From our target audience research and gathering the results together i can comment on how to improve on my documentary better.
On a scale of 0-5 how much have you learnt from our documentary?
The majority our documentary our audience rated 3-4 to on how much they have learnt from our documentary. This shows the results for this was quite high, therefore i feel that our documentary was informative enough. However i think to improve on this and try to get ratings out of 5 was to include other statistics that are much deeper, and ones that we found on the Internet when browsing. For example show statistics on how many people, pay online for getting their fortunes read, This can give our documentary a bit of depth and be more informative of what it is already.
On a scale of 0-5 did you find all your unanswered questions throughout, answered during this documentary?
Again for this our audience felt it was average and rated us 3/4 but mostly 3's. I feel that we could improve on this was to maybe before we published and exported, during the editing stage when our narrative is complete to show it to a few members of the class so they can criticise and give feedback on whether they feel it makes sense, and to see if they have any unanswered questions at the end?
On a scale of 0-5 how entertaining did you find this documentary?
The Audience feedback for this was mixed feeling. Some said around 3/4 however a few 2 and 1's which is very negative. I feel to improve on this to make it more entertaining is to include vox pops maybe and cut up each interview and mix them in, so it tells a story and you can a variety and range of clips. In addition to do this we could have created a reconstruction of maybe us getting our fortunes read, over the fortune teller interview to give a variety and to make the interview vary in shots. I can agree in some areas of the documentary where it may be lacking entertainment, is the Tea Leave interview as we do not have many cutaways and i feel to improve we could have used a reconstruction here.
On a scale of 0-5 do you think you would watch this documentary again?
Again with this question there were similar mixed views from our target audience. The majority rated it 3 which i feel is very negative, seeing as one or two people rated us quite low. This obviously meant maybe the documentary was to informative for them? However from looking at other results i feel people may of not found it as entertaining because they have mixed views about our documentary being entertaining. This means we could have improved on this by, again making the documentary more entertaining by using reconstructions and voxpops.
On a scale of 0-5 do you think you would recommend this documentary to a friend or a family member?
This results for this were very mixed. I feel this could be one of their family members may not be in the same age range? Which could be out of our target audience reach. However i can also conclude that i can be probably because they may not have found it as entertaining as expected, due to variety of shots or the long narration we have? To improve on this i feel maybe we could extend our target audience therefore making it appeal to maybe a older age range as well as our young one so other people just out of reach of our target age group could also be entrained and enjoy watching it.
On a scale of 0-5 do you think the documentary contain a variation of information?
Our audience feedback from this question was very positive as the majority rated it mostly 4 in the variation of information throughout our film. I feel we varied our information however so they similarly closely link, making our documentary fluent however to improve on getting a higher rating we could've include more information still linked but more variation.
How effective did you think our editing techniques were on a scale of 0-5?
Our target audience rated us mostly 3/4 on how successful they thought our editing techniques were. I felt we did use our editing techniques to improve on our film, creating the correct eery atmosphere we wanted however i feel we could improved on this by using a wider variation of editing techniques. We could of pushed ourselves further by taking a risk in one editing technique to experiment to give a wider range of editing techniques.
On a scale of 0-5 did you think the music we created creates the right atmosphere for our documentary?
eery atmosphere. It reflects well off our documentary and relates a lot to Fortune telling, authentic and creepy.
To improve on the music i feel that we need a bit more variation in it, maybe a few more background songs to go over different interviews to make the interviews a bit more lively, rather than mysterious as we only want to capture this in the opening sequence of our documentary.
On a scale of 0-5 how much did you feel the interviews were clear and precise?
With this we have a few high results and a few low. I feel that our audience felt that our Tea Leave interview had very Strong and precise sound however there are areas where it can downfall. This is where it muffles as our interviewee is using her hand gestures during the interview which hits the microphone a few times however it doesn't effect it that much. This can be improved by maybe asking our interviewee to try and not use her hand gestures as much therefore we wont get this muffling sound and our sound for our documentary can be more successful. Other ways i feel we got low ratings was the narration it did have a background hum. After doing it twice and editing with the audio it still contained this background hum that i feel also was a disadvantage to our film.
How effective did you think the use of cutaways where during the interview?
The majority of our audience rated this as mostly 2 and 3 as they were nearly balanced. I feel this is because we did not use enough cutaways during the interviews when we could of done. The best example of not using enough cutaways was during the Tea Leaves interview where i felt more could be added for example maybe a small reconstruction of someone getting their tea leaves read. Or even the use of images of different types of tea maybe? I felt we could of brainstormed more on the cutaways to improve variety.
On a scale of 0-5 how much of your attention did our documentary grab?
There was again mixed rating for this audience feedback. I felt maybe they may not have felt the colours weren't eye catching however if we would've done that it wouldn't have created the right atmosphere during our documentary. We could improve on making inputting a variety of different music int he background so it was interesting and kept our audience intrigued.
On a scale of 0-5 How much would you compare our first 5 minutes to a professional documentary?
Overall the results from this were quite high saying they would compare it to a documentary. Also when we posted our film on face book one of the comments was '' this is really good haha. the intro is really professional, like a bbc3 documentary or something....actually has a sort of derren brown feel to it''
On a scale of 0-5 how did you feel our documentary could be played on television and would be successful?
There were mixed feelings for this last question because our target audience gave us a lot of mixed feelings overall. However to conclude i do think the majority of our target audience was very interested in our film.To make the ratings even higher though i feel we could of made it more professional, like i said previously by fulfilling every single convention of a documentary.
On a scale of 0-5 did you find all your unanswered questions throughout, answered during this documentary?
Again for this our audience felt it was average and rated us 3/4 but mostly 3's. I feel that we could improve on this was to maybe before we published and exported, during the editing stage when our narrative is complete to show it to a few members of the class so they can criticise and give feedback on whether they feel it makes sense, and to see if they have any unanswered questions at the end?
On a scale of 0-5 how entertaining did you find this documentary?
The Audience feedback for this was mixed feeling. Some said around 3/4 however a few 2 and 1's which is very negative. I feel to improve on this to make it more entertaining is to include vox pops maybe and cut up each interview and mix them in, so it tells a story and you can a variety and range of clips. In addition to do this we could have created a reconstruction of maybe us getting our fortunes read, over the fortune teller interview to give a variety and to make the interview vary in shots. I can agree in some areas of the documentary where it may be lacking entertainment, is the Tea Leave interview as we do not have many cutaways and i feel to improve we could have used a reconstruction here.
On a scale of 0-5 do you think you would watch this documentary again?
Again with this question there were similar mixed views from our target audience. The majority rated it 3 which i feel is very negative, seeing as one or two people rated us quite low. This obviously meant maybe the documentary was to informative for them? However from looking at other results i feel people may of not found it as entertaining because they have mixed views about our documentary being entertaining. This means we could have improved on this by, again making the documentary more entertaining by using reconstructions and voxpops.
On a scale of 0-5 do you think you would recommend this documentary to a friend or a family member?
This results for this were very mixed. I feel this could be one of their family members may not be in the same age range? Which could be out of our target audience reach. However i can also conclude that i can be probably because they may not have found it as entertaining as expected, due to variety of shots or the long narration we have? To improve on this i feel maybe we could extend our target audience therefore making it appeal to maybe a older age range as well as our young one so other people just out of reach of our target age group could also be entrained and enjoy watching it.
On a scale of 0-5 do you think the documentary contain a variation of information?
Our audience feedback from this question was very positive as the majority rated it mostly 4 in the variation of information throughout our film. I feel we varied our information however so they similarly closely link, making our documentary fluent however to improve on getting a higher rating we could've include more information still linked but more variation.
How effective did you think our editing techniques were on a scale of 0-5?
Our target audience rated us mostly 3/4 on how successful they thought our editing techniques were. I felt we did use our editing techniques to improve on our film, creating the correct eery atmosphere we wanted however i feel we could improved on this by using a wider variation of editing techniques. We could of pushed ourselves further by taking a risk in one editing technique to experiment to give a wider range of editing techniques.
On a scale of 0-5 did you think the music we created creates the right atmosphere for our documentary?
eery atmosphere. It reflects well off our documentary and relates a lot to Fortune telling, authentic and creepy.
To improve on the music i feel that we need a bit more variation in it, maybe a few more background songs to go over different interviews to make the interviews a bit more lively, rather than mysterious as we only want to capture this in the opening sequence of our documentary.
On a scale of 0-5 how much did you feel the interviews were clear and precise?
With this we have a few high results and a few low. I feel that our audience felt that our Tea Leave interview had very Strong and precise sound however there are areas where it can downfall. This is where it muffles as our interviewee is using her hand gestures during the interview which hits the microphone a few times however it doesn't effect it that much. This can be improved by maybe asking our interviewee to try and not use her hand gestures as much therefore we wont get this muffling sound and our sound for our documentary can be more successful. Other ways i feel we got low ratings was the narration it did have a background hum. After doing it twice and editing with the audio it still contained this background hum that i feel also was a disadvantage to our film.
How effective did you think the use of cutaways where during the interview?
The majority of our audience rated this as mostly 2 and 3 as they were nearly balanced. I feel this is because we did not use enough cutaways during the interviews when we could of done. The best example of not using enough cutaways was during the Tea Leaves interview where i felt more could be added for example maybe a small reconstruction of someone getting their tea leaves read. Or even the use of images of different types of tea maybe? I felt we could of brainstormed more on the cutaways to improve variety.
On a scale of 0-5 how much of your attention did our documentary grab?
There was again mixed rating for this audience feedback. I felt maybe they may not have felt the colours weren't eye catching however if we would've done that it wouldn't have created the right atmosphere during our documentary. We could improve on making inputting a variety of different music int he background so it was interesting and kept our audience intrigued.
On a scale of 0-5 How much would you compare our first 5 minutes to a professional documentary?
Overall the results from this were quite high saying they would compare it to a documentary. Also when we posted our film on face book one of the comments was '' this is really good haha. the intro is really professional, like a bbc3 documentary or something....actually has a sort of derren brown feel to it''
However we could improve in making it more professional by using every single codes and conventions because we missed out two or one . We could involve green screen which would make it up to more of a professional standard.
On a scale of 0-5 how did you feel our documentary could be played on television and would be successful?
There were mixed feelings for this last question because our target audience gave us a lot of mixed feelings overall. However to conclude i do think the majority of our target audience was very interested in our film.To make the ratings even higher though i feel we could of made it more professional, like i said previously by fulfilling every single convention of a documentary.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Question 1: In what ways does your media product use,develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
The media product is our documentary called ‘’The Fortune in Fortune Telling’’ what we have produce challenges our knowledge of what we know about codes and conventions of a documentary. When researching the different codes and conventions used for documentaries we analysed 6 different documentaries from different genres of fiction, crime/drugs, fame and nature. When analysing these 6 different documentaries we had to note down the certain features, Music, Narration, Camerawork, and Lighting, Mise en Scene, Type of documentary and the themes running through the documentaries. In order to do this we had to find out the different codes and conventions so we could comment on them successfully to give evidence for our analysis.
Here I have shown I have explored the related codes and conventions and how our documentary has used them well and successfully to create a successful documentary.
In our documentary we have included a voice over, which was the narrative over our documentary, giving our audience an insight of what is coming up, what will come next and briefly describing keywords throughout our documentary that needed to be explained to our target audience. When choosing a voice over we felt we needed an old lady with good pronunciation, a voice that could be matched to our stereotype of a fortune teller, so our audience can relate and get a feel of the atmosphere we intend to create during the documentary. We eventually found a middle aged women, who was happy to narrate our documentary. When recording it we did do a few takes, which sounded good, however when we put it over our documentary, we found that there was too much narration, and her narration voice was bland and monotone with no enthusiasm where needed.
We decided we need a very animated voice to narrate our documentary, and we found this was a problem because we underestimated the time it would take us to record and edit the narration. Fortunately we had a friend who does drama, and was happy to narrate our documentary, using an old, posh, animated voice giving our documentary depth and interest. The second time round recording it was successful and we then used this narration. I feel the narration sounds good but could be better if we used a middle aged women, however the fact our narration is animated and enthusiastic where needed, allows us as an audience to be interested in our documentary.
By using ‘real footage’, footage that hasn’t been tampered with, it makes what the narrator is trying to suggest to be more objective, giving visual evidence of what the narrator is suggesting so the audience are more lenient to believe that it is truthful. In our documentary, we used real footage, of magazines and Internet pages that we filmed ourselves, to suggest how the Media Is a huge influence on fortune telling.
The images to the right hand side are examples of the magazines and Internet pages they we have used in our film, that we would consider as real footage.
Throughout our filming process we also used real footage of an interview with a fortune teller, that we visited who told us a brief background about herself and Fortune telling in general. We felt by using this footage in our documentary the audience would feel what we were saying was objective and accurate. By having this interview with the fortune teller, it is similarly like having an interview with an ‘expert/professional’ and our audience would believe in what they are saying is accurate, because they are experts in what they do; in our case it would be the fortune teller knowing all about fortune telling.
Another convention of a documentary would be that filmmakers go to great lengths to convince us as an audience that everything they have shot is realistic and from real life events. In our documentary all of our footage can be seen as realistic events that happened however in one of the shots we did ask a few people to look and stop at the fortune teller booth (the sped up shot of people walking past) so our voice over could say how many people have visited, or been slightly interested in the fortune teller booth.
Here is the snapshot from our own documentary of the people walking past, where it is then edited and sped up.
Here are the snapshots from our documentary of our statistical information, where we interviewed the public other questions, however we made it look like we were interviewing them about the statistical information, however we gathered that information earlier from our Target Audience Research Questionnaire.
Here is a snapshot from the mise en scene of our documentary.
Here is the image of of 'shadow man' that we used in our documentary, and here is a snapshot of us using it in our documentary.
The narrative structure of our documentary is linear as all the events link into each other chronologically, backing up each evidence of ideas. For example we have the opening sequence which is the introduction explaining what will be happening in the documentary. Then we have the first fortune teller we visited, discussing on average how many people visit her on average, showing how popular it can be. We then explore a different fortune teller booth, showing how well advertised hers id with famous celebrities and idols, so we question is this why people visited, they are influenced by celebrities. Then we discuss the biggest involvement within the media TV shows, films and the focus on magazines, horoscopes and phone lines. Then it goes onto how people are influenced by this as especially the Internet. Interviews a young teenager who believes she has had paranormal interaction because she has gathered her knowledge from the Internet. We then explored how people can take fortune telling into their own hands and pretend to be fortune tellers, to make money. We interviewed a fortune teller from home who believes she can predict the future by reading tealeaves. This order of our documentary I feel fits in well with one another as it explores variety of different topics however they link in a give evidence off one another.
The images to the right hand side are examples of the magazines and Internet pages they we have used in our film, that we would consider as real footage.
Throughout our filming process we also used real footage of an interview with a fortune teller, that we visited who told us a brief background about herself and Fortune telling in general. We felt by using this footage in our documentary the audience would feel what we were saying was objective and accurate. By having this interview with the fortune teller, it is similarly like having an interview with an ‘expert/professional’ and our audience would believe in what they are saying is accurate, because they are experts in what they do; in our case it would be the fortune teller knowing all about fortune telling.
Another convention of a documentary would be that filmmakers go to great lengths to convince us as an audience that everything they have shot is realistic and from real life events. In our documentary all of our footage can be seen as realistic events that happened however in one of the shots we did ask a few people to look and stop at the fortune teller booth (the sped up shot of people walking past) so our voice over could say how many people have visited, or been slightly interested in the fortune teller booth.
Here is the snapshot from our own documentary of the people walking past, where it is then edited and sped up.
Here are the snapshots from our documentary of our statistical information, where we interviewed the public other questions, however we made it look like we were interviewing them about the statistical information, however we gathered that information earlier from our Target Audience Research Questionnaire.
In documentaries ‘natural sound and lighting’ is used, to make documentaries look more realistic and create intense atmosphere to set the mood of a scene. It can make things in the documentary look more emotive in some cases depending on the documentary and the audience. W A good example of using ‘natural lighting’ can be the Tea Leave interview where we dimmed the lights and added candles for the miss –en-scene. I feel that this lighting added an eery atmosphere to the interview, and made it realistic in ways it could be more related to the fortune telling theme. I also feel that the candles could make the interviewee look more wise so the audience can believe more into what she is suggesting in the interview.
Here is a snapshot from the mise en scene of our documentary.
Archive footage and still images is a main convention during documentaries. By using archive footage and main still it proves the point you are trying to suggest and give evidence to back up what your are suggesting, making it more informing and objective to our audience. In our documentary we have used archive footage by using the Britney Spears advert for the perfume ‘Radiance’ and Paranormal activity, and this is shown whilst the narration is explaining how the media has had a huge impact in making the general public , and the involvement it has with advertising the Supernatural and most importantly fortune telling, therefore explaining how much money they are making.
Here is the trailer for the Britney Spears Advert where we cut it down and only used a small section of it.
Here is a snapshot from our documentary of us using the Britney Spears Advert as Archive Footage.
Here is a snapshot of our documentary showing another part of our archive footage, paranormal activity.
We have also used still of an image of ‘The vampire diaries’ when explaining different TV shows that have published the supernatural even more. In addition we have included images of ‘Hatman/Shadowman’ to show a stereotype of how the media have perceived this Supernatural creature. By using all this archive footage and still shots, it makes our narration more reliable and objective and we can give evidence in what we are trying to suggest during the narration.
Here is the trailer for the Britney Spears Advert where we cut it down and only used a small section of it.
Here is a snapshot from our documentary of us using the Britney Spears Advert as Archive Footage.
Here is a snapshot of our documentary showing another part of our archive footage, paranormal activity.
We have also used still of an image of ‘The vampire diaries’ when explaining different TV shows that have published the supernatural even more. In addition we have included images of ‘Hatman/Shadowman’ to show a stereotype of how the media have perceived this Supernatural creature. By using all this archive footage and still shots, it makes our narration more reliable and objective and we can give evidence in what we are trying to suggest during the narration.
Here is the image of of 'shadow man' that we used in our documentary, and here is a snapshot of us using it in our documentary.
Here is an additional image we found using our secondary research, and here is us using it in our documentary.
By having interviews with experts in our documentary it helps convince our audience in what we are trying to suggest is more reliable. In our documentary like I said before, we have included an interview with a fortune teller, who reads fortune for a living. By having this interview included in our documentary it shows we have gathered information from an ‘Expert’, a fortune teller knowing the knowledge about Fortune Telling.
Graphics and titles can be used as mainly subtitles during the documentary, which can introduce the interviewee, their name and occupation. Graphics text, can also be used to label images of time date/location, which can answer any unanswered questions that the audience might be wondering throughout the documentary. In our documentary we have included subtitles, in all of our interviews of their name and occupation.
Here is a few examples of using the subtitles, introducing the interview. As you can see the text in each title is exactly the same as we wanted continuity. It stands out and is basic with an authentic look because of the ancient looking text, which helps create the atmosphere we are trying to create.
For our documentary we have also used text graphics as the Title to introduce the documentary, which has the same font as the subtitles, which is quite standard but looks ancient which can create the mood of
supernatural throughout the whole of the documentary. We have used white text which stands out against all of our backgrounds in the documentary, also shadowing around the outside is a dark shadow which can help allow the text to stand out more if not so already.
Here are both the opening titles that merge into one using a cross fade. As you can see the text stands out and creates the right atmosphere, of old ancient, rituals we wanted to create with this text. These next two images are snap shots from our documentary showing our titles
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We have also included text when showing a statistic of ‘how many people have visited a fortune teller’ which is again the same font and is used over the muted interviews with the people. We felt that we did this successfully because the audience could visually see the statistics however instead of using a black simple, plain background we used interviews to show these were some of the people we asked to gather information for the statistic, which makes the documentary more interesting.
Here is a shot from or documentary of where we have used statistics, through text.
The sound in documentaries is essential there is non diegetic and diegetic sounds. Non diegetic means the sound have been added in the editing process to add emotion depending on the type of documentary and the situation the music is used. Dieget sound is the speech, the background noise for example in interviews that is used, it naturally occurs. In our documentary we have used Non –diajectic sound as the background music. In the opening sequence we have used music called ‘’Creepy carnival music’’ we felt this music fitted perfectly with our opening sequence as it created an eery mood to our documentary, and set the documentary successfully representing the supernatural theme well. The second source of non diajectic music was the 'Haunted House ' which we felt was more upbeat and gave liveliness to our documentary. We used this music in most of the cutaways and the middle duration of our documentaries.
Our non diajectic in our documentary is also our narration involved in this which we felt was very successful, as our narration was very interesting and animated giving enthusiasm where it was needed. The narration in our documentary was used to inform and briefly describe things our audience wouldn’t of been able to with just the visual alone. The diajectic sound involved in our documentary, was the only background sound of the interviews, and the background sound of the interviews was mostly quiet as they went quite successful. One problem we had that occurred was the interview with the fortune teller lady the sound was poor, and a lot of background noise was involved so it was quite hard to figure out what she was saying however, we overcame this by altering the audio levels and spending a a lot of time editing and cutting down and cutting out the unnecessary sounds where we could. However it still is not as great as we expected but this has made us aware for next time, that the microphone is very sensitive to background noise.
Graphics and titles can be used as mainly subtitles during the documentary, which can introduce the interviewee, their name and occupation. Graphics text, can also be used to label images of time date/location, which can answer any unanswered questions that the audience might be wondering throughout the documentary. In our documentary we have included subtitles, in all of our interviews of their name and occupation.Here is a few examples of using the subtitles, introducing the interview. As you can see the text in each title is exactly the same as we wanted continuity. It stands out and is basic with an authentic look because of the ancient looking text, which helps create the atmosphere we are trying to create.
For our documentary we have also used text graphics as the Title to introduce the documentary, which has the same font as the subtitles, which is quite standard but looks ancient which can create the mood of
supernatural throughout the whole of the documentary. We have used white text which stands out against all of our backgrounds in the documentary, also shadowing around the outside is a dark shadow which can help allow the text to stand out more if not so already.
Here are both the opening titles that merge into one using a cross fade. As you can see the text stands out and creates the right atmosphere, of old ancient, rituals we wanted to create with this text. These next two images are snap shots from our documentary showing our titles
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We have also included text when showing a statistic of ‘how many people have visited a fortune teller’ which is again the same font and is used over the muted interviews with the people. We felt that we did this successfully because the audience could visually see the statistics however instead of using a black simple, plain background we used interviews to show these were some of the people we asked to gather information for the statistic, which makes the documentary more interesting.
Here is a shot from or documentary of where we have used statistics, through text.
The sound in documentaries is essential there is non diegetic and diegetic sounds. Non diegetic means the sound have been added in the editing process to add emotion depending on the type of documentary and the situation the music is used. Dieget sound is the speech, the background noise for example in interviews that is used, it naturally occurs. In our documentary we have used Non –diajectic sound as the background music. In the opening sequence we have used music called ‘’Creepy carnival music’’ we felt this music fitted perfectly with our opening sequence as it created an eery mood to our documentary, and set the documentary successfully representing the supernatural theme well. The second source of non diajectic music was the 'Haunted House ' which we felt was more upbeat and gave liveliness to our documentary. We used this music in most of the cutaways and the middle duration of our documentaries.
Our non diajectic in our documentary is also our narration involved in this which we felt was very successful, as our narration was very interesting and animated giving enthusiasm where it was needed. The narration in our documentary was used to inform and briefly describe things our audience wouldn’t of been able to with just the visual alone. The diajectic sound involved in our documentary, was the only background sound of the interviews, and the background sound of the interviews was mostly quiet as they went quite successful. One problem we had that occurred was the interview with the fortune teller lady the sound was poor, and a lot of background noise was involved so it was quite hard to figure out what she was saying however, we overcame this by altering the audio levels and spending a a lot of time editing and cutting down and cutting out the unnecessary sounds where we could. However it still is not as great as we expected but this has made us aware for next time, that the microphone is very sensitive to background noise.
Reconstructions are generally used in most documentaries, it is used to show events that has happened in the past, or set up certain scenes to match what the narrator is discussing. You can also have small reconstructions to be used for cutaways. Reconstructions can be criticised because it draws away from the idea that it is realistic, and it can involve problems or certain stereotypes that be be introduced. In our documentary we used a small reconstruction that was used to show the tea leave interview getting a client. A small reconstruction was made mainly for cutaways again, of someone making a pot of tea, and the tea leaves being read. These cutaways are shown when she explains the procedure of tealeaves, and the step by step in how you do it.
By using hidden footage that the public is unaware about when filming it can be used as evidence when the narrator is trying to suggest a certain point. It can help back up certain suggestions and because its naturalistic footage the audience will consider it to be more accurate. In our documentary we did something similar to this, and set up the camera on the street for about half hour to an hour, where we filmed the public walking past the fortune teller booth. The point in this shot was to see how many people walked past the fortune teller booth and even acknowledged it, showing their interest. We sped this footage up and included in our documentary when the narrator is discussing how many people get their fortunes read.
Green screening is a successful way to show an interview in a documentary so you can create your own strong mise en scene. In our documentary we planned to do something similar by using a blank wall in our Supernatural experiences interview, and wanting to add in a background of an image that could relate the the Supernatural. When editing this it didn’t turn out to plan and the green screen process didn’t work because there was to much visible white colours on our interviewee’s skin and clothes which blended her into the background when we tried to edit it onto an image. We then just had to leave the interview background blank, however I do feel even though it doesn’t have a strong mise en scene, at least it doesn’t have a poor unrelated mise en scene, and there is a blank background that can be neutral in most interviews.
This is a printscreen of showing how we couldve used greenscreen however it wouldnt work whne we edited onto Premiere .
Hand held cameras can be used in documentaries to help it become more realistic as it creates a sense of filming in a natural environment and that it is not set up. They are also an advantage as they are quick and easy to film/ and set up which allows us to capture realistic footage more easily if we normally used a tripod and the time to set it up. We did not include any handheld camera work for the first section of our documentary, the section being filmed. We felt it was unnecessary for what we were suggesting and it didn’t require any handheld camera needed in places.
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