Documentary Feedback

A number of elements within the documentary had to be edited, deleted or re-recorded after our first lot of feedback. We also had an issue with a pixelated scene, this may have been due to the over editing or just poor quality footage. The way we overcome this issue was to gather more footage to allow us to build a story around our footage. We wanted to display a ‘day in farm life’, we were able to achieve this by chronologically ordering our footage, stating with the sun coming up, ending with the sun setting. This meant that scenes and clips were shuffled around to give the correct final look.

Once this issue was solved we then decided to look at the final piece as a whole, we wanted to tell a story, however the eyes and brain work in a way which we would have to edit our documentary to be visually pleasing. This meant the lighting of all footage shot throughout the day would have to work together and flow almost seamlessly. This then helped out with the continuity of the overall piece making it easier for the audiences to enjoy. To add to the viewing experience, we also had to think about the use of transitions to piece the footage together. We found that the eyes don’t ‘do’ transitions very well, things like dissolve and cross cutting will make the final piece look unprofessional as well as disconnected. We chose to edit the transitions as well as the zooming effects out of the documentary so that all the scenes looked like they were logically placed and professionally put together.

Following with the professionalism, we also wanted to introduce the characters to give it a more believable documentary vibe. These need to be strategically placed to ensure that they are clear and easily understood for the audiences as well as it adding to the overall quality of the documentary piece. This is one of the final edits we needed to make to our documentary as the content is of high quality, the use of sign posts would add another element to the documentary without it being too much. After all these slight tweaks have been made it will result in a professional looking documentary which should clearly tell a story from start to finish.