After today´s fine cut deadline session, we got some new feedback on our project, we are all really pleased and happy with what we have achieved. Now there is only colour correction and the additional final tweaks left before hand-in on Friday. 

To show the differences between the rough cut and the fine cut, we chose to export the rough cut before the feedback from Helen. The rough cut is very rough, with no sound, music or levels edited, as well as no colour corrections has been made and some cutaways - still photos has not been put in yet.



After the feedback session with Helen, we noted down some bullet points on what to look at and change up to craft the doc more into the best end-result as possible. 

Wednesday 27th of April we met up and sat down to go through the sync assembly. Imogen had written up all the dialogue from the interviews, and we highlighted the parts and bits we wanted to include, and that made the most sense.

We spent two days shooting the documentary, where we only had our presenter for the first day and had to plan around this. Therefore, we decided to shoot all of the presenter bits, with the cutaways with him in them, as well as the actuality interview with one of the specialists from the national trust.

As a part of my role as camera op on our project, I have put together the shot lists and sketched some storyboards to prepare for the shooting days. To get the results we want for the production, I have consulted both producer and director as to plan how the structure and set up of the shots and angles will affect and play out on screen.




I made sure to be in close dialogue with both of them so we could all agree on what it is we want, how we will do it and how we are going about to get the results we want. It was very important to me that what I proposed was ideas that could be altered and played around with to make the production into one joined vision and goal.

In our presentation, we also chose to focus on different areas of what would be applicable to our own positions and roles in the production. We had a group meeting where we settled on who were to do what, and then we created the presentation on google drive so we could collaborate easily without sitting together the whole time. This method worked really well, as we also have a group chat to communicate regarding anything to do with our project.

As a part of the preparation for the documentary, we have all participated in the different areas/roles we have been given. Imogen has written the script (ref: research for the script on her blog) as well as prepared all the paperwork. I am making the shot lists and storyboards (own blog post) with inputs from Rosie. Rosie and I have both posted the casting ad to our CCP - profiles. And we are all going to decide and agree on who get the role as presenter.

In this unit, Documentary, one of the criteria is that our 10-minute long wildlife and nature documentary have to be suitable for transmission at 8pm on UKTV - Wildlife and Nature Channel "Eden"

The first workshop we have had during this unit is an interview workshop where we as the first half of it went through sound recording techniques with Ferg. After that, we had the rest of the day to set up an interview setting, where we were to record pre-made questions that we had prepared. It is really eye-opening to see how much time actually goes into setting up and shooting an interview.

After shooting the interview we got a second task to set up a double interview, interviewing two people at the same time. This turned out to be quite challenging and I learned quite a lot from it, how not tot does it, as well as how to solve it in a better way.

Imogen and I decided to edit it together as our groups got changed around. We edited the interview footage over easter, so it would be ready for completion. To finish it off we shot some cutaway clips on the editing day to put in between the interview clips.