Monday 2 April 2012

Evaluation for documentary

1. I think we worked quite well in a group, but at first we had a couple of difficulties with coming up with an actual idea for our documentary. we started brainstorming ideas and came up with smoking and the younger generation. After we all agreed on the idea we got to work on it.
The whole group contributed towards the camera work and parts of the editing. Kamiul and Syran looked for the most of the audio for the documentary. I was making headings for the documentary on Adobe After Effects. And Shamim did the main editing on Adobe Premier Pro.

2. We had quite a few difficulties when working on our documentary such as coming up with the initial idea. we over came this problem by brainstorming ideas and the we finally came up with the young smokers idea for the documnetary.
Another difficulty we had was when our recorded scenes kept getting deleted for some reason. We had to re-record these scenes a couple of times so that they'd be more accessable. After we put the scenes together, we realised that the documentary wasn't long enough. So we filled up these spaces by doing a few interviews from teachers and a student. Another problem that we faced was when one of the group members was ill and couldn't come in. The remaining people of the group, myself, Kamiul and Shamim had to share Syrans' role in order to get the documentary finished without any delays towards the deadline date.

3. Our documentary could have been improved if we used better camera shots and more exciting information. This way the documentary would've looked more professional aswell as being more fun to watch.

4. Our audience feedback has been pretty good,the areas we need to work on are the statistics and facts to try and make them more exciting. this feedback will be taken into account and we will use it when it comes to making any other videos.

5. For the production of this documentary we used many different softewares such as Adobe Premier Pro and Adobe After Effects for the headings and titles. Premier Pro was used to shorten and lengthen the clips that we would use for our documentary. we also used the blurring effect on Premier Pro so that the anonymous smoker could not be identified.