lucy martin year 2 creative media

 Final Product After receiving feedback, I prolonged the text shown on screen when the interviewees are being asked questions, made the volume of all clips as equal as possible, focusing on voiceovers and lowered the volume of music on interviews.  Link to final product: 

 Evaluation of my project Once  completing all stages of production, receiving feedback and editing my documentary, I am finally happy with my final project and all the researching that I put into it. My documentary titled ‘Musical Theatre in the North East’ acts as a homage to the theatre community, expressing how it is represented in the North East - told firsthand by those who experience it everyday. When reading the brief and becoming aware of it being about identity and culture, I knew straight away that I had to base my own project around musical theatre. This has been a huge aspect of my life for many years and is something that makes me feel like part of a community. I believe that documentaries have to be personal in some way, which is why I chose this topic. Although my original idea came to my quite quick, I then had to consider what the actual content would be when narrowed down - what was the purpose? What am I going to get out of this? As the brief is for the cli...

  Post-production diary Once wrapping up all things production, I am beginning to experiment with piecing it all together. As the interviews were the first shots I filmed, I will begin here. Although this will be the main body of the interview, I believe starting with the biggest chunk of footage will allow me to easily work around it and fill in any gaps. 5th May 2022 Today I imported the interviews that took place on the 7th April onto my laptop. As I am aiming to be working from home on this project, I decided to start editing on iMovie. This decision was not one I took lightly. Premier Pro is accessible to me through the college computers, yet I would only be able to work on this in class time, which is not ideal for me personally.  I have previously used iMovie on past projects, so although I will not be able to achieve more sophisticated edits, it is more efficient in the long term.  Once my footage was imported and dragged onto the timeline, I began cutting the cli...

 First Draft - Final Product & Feedback After completing the first edit of my final product, I aim to gather any feedback and make changes if needed to do so. Link to video:  Once exported and uploaded to YouTube, I shared it with my peers to obtain their views and any to hear any feedback they may have. As they are within the targeted age range, it is important to cater to what they want out of the documentary.  The overall feedback I received was: Good / interesting topic Interesting interviews Well researched Good layou t Suitable music choice  Edited well Good use of voiceovers and screen-recordings Make the text last longer on interviews (consistency) Fix audio levels so that they are equal (especially voiceovers) Lower music on interviews I am extremely pleased with the feedback that I received, due to it being only the first draft. Being open to changes is crucial when in the post-production stage, as there are always going to be ways to improve and m...