lucy martin year 2 creative media

Production Diary  Completing all pre-production that is possible to do before production means that I can now start to put my product into place. My first advance into production will be organising interviews. 24th March 2022 After coming up with suitable interview questions, I sent them to my lecturer who will then pass them onto people studying Musical Theatre. Being able to interview students at Sunderland College will be perfect as we can film on site and they are young performers in the North East, which is a main feature in my ideas. 6th April 2022 My first interviews have now been organised for 7th April, but I wanted to try and obtain some test footage first, to see what angles work / don't work, instead of leaving it to the day.  With the help of Lucy (production assistant) who sat in front of the camera so I could move the camera / focus etc. we found the perfect set up. I decided to just be a voice as the interviewer, with the interviewee in a talking head type set ...

 Final Script & Progress Carrying out research on how to write a script was beneficial as I now know where to begin and how to lay it out. The final product:  Using Celtx  to write and store my script was extremely beneficial in keeping it organised and it aided in the layout, as you can add in characters, dialogue, actions etc. The script was, however, only completed once production was ended, due to the nature of the project. Since documentaries typically are not scripted, I could not have predicted the direction in which the interviews went, therefore this could only be fully finished once production was too.  Writing the introduction for my documentary was fairly easy to do. As I had reflected on other existing products and seen what types of codes and conventions (e.g statistics) were used there, I knew what I did and did not want to include in my own. Opening with statistics was something that I, as the audience, do find interesting, so I wanted to replic...