What are some difficulties and problems that could occur?
• identifies practicalities that may affect the production process How would these problems and difficulties affect your film?
• considers the impact of these practicalities on the production process What are some solutions to dealing with any problems or difficulties?
• outlines strategies to overcome obstacles
Practicalities include such aspects as locations, transport, equipment, weather, costs, cast/crew, time, fliming etc.
Short filming and work period to create this documentary Less editing time means;
Our ideas will be less developed- working with special effects, colouration, imagery
Which means our documentary may be less effective and not boldly put across the message we are wanting to show our audience.
Use the production schedule and other lists & things to plan in advanced and use our given time effectively. Plan out days we are free to edit and what we need to get done to try and complete what we need in the short period.
Use our class time developing ideas and completing our written group and self work. Film after school, during our lunch breaks and after school. Editing as much as we can
Traveling to places where we need to film and/or edit that are more than a walk way
e.g- Auckland, group members homes If we have no access to transport we can’t get to these planned destinations and cannot have a wider range of footage. Having the access to different areas can widen our ideas and we can make the film more interesting. Also if we have planned for a scene to take place somewhere we don’t want to have to change our idea or miss out as it will take longer and having to post pone shooting is wasting time we don’t have Along with our planning try and organise in advanced rides with family or busses. From example when travelling into Auckland we caught a bus but the second time organised a ride with friends which managed to be faster and obviously cost effective.
Searching up bus times and making sure you find the fastest and easiest option would be the main solution in this situation.
Weather while filming outdoor shots is bad eg raining or low lighting
If it was raining the weather could damage some of the filming equipment, notes etc.
The filming that needed to be done was planned to have nice sunny weather and it’s raining. You might not be able to use the footage taken on that day as it may produce a darker mood in your documentary and the lighting might be bad quality even shooting indoors. Take some shots from this angle of stormy dark weather because it might help you think of more ideas and give you more shots to work with
If weather is too stormy and rain may harm equipment have a backup plan to do written work or another lot of filming that needs to be done. If you don’t have anything organised then plan for your next filming date so that you’re using your time to its max
Finding time that works with us and the interviewees – because we are students we have a short time frame
Trying to schedule time between us as students having school, homework and other priorities is one step yet also having to try and find the best suited time for employed interviewees will be quite difficult and result in maybe having to post pone shoots and having to negotiate time with the interviewees that may cut it close to the due date for development of the film. This means we may have less people to interview and if this is the outcome it means we have to try and find a just as bold and blunt way to put across the message we want people to think about. As with most things planning in advanced. With our interviewees we made sure when we came up with idea we planned the people we would interview at the beginning of the written work process just so that we have set dates that work with both parties.
When getting the contact information for certain people ask for other possibilities of people they know that may suit the roll needed.
Have back up possibilities of people you know will be available so you have a large selection of candidates.
Filming equipment – If we don’t have access to it If it breaks
The school only has limited resources therefore quality of the film may be poorer than if you used a professional camera. Also lacking in more developed equipment such as mic’s and lighting gives the crew members less to work with also making the film lack in quality as well as making the variations of shots that could be used restricted because of the lack of equipment. Because there being a lot of other students needing to use the given equipment too there will be less filming time and filming will be rushed thus making the footage seem less professional maybe Contact friends and family to find and borrow equipment to use. Also communicating and scheduling with your class mates when the cameras are in use will help to solve conflicts and ensure you to have the fairest and best use of the equipment given.
Making our documentary appeal to our audience Trying to make our film to entertain and appeal to everyone in our audience. We will have to change our ideas and some things in our film such as the back track audio and people we show to cater for every age group and every taste Finding a balance of ages so that it’s not all the younger generations or older generations. So there’s someone for everyone to relate to.
Also having a range of music that relates to the film rather than choosing popular music that people may be sick of or dislike.
Refection summary
Original idea
Explain in the treatment how the concept is to be realised using media conventions and technology How I changed this idea
Explain in the treatment how the concept is to be realised through the deliberate selection of using media conventions and technology to engage an audience. Why did you make the change and explain the result of the change
Explain in the treatment how the concept is to be realised through the effective selection and application of media conventions and technology to command and capture audience attention.
Interviewing “random” people on the streets of Auckland about “What music means to them”
Instead of just interviewing “random” people on the streets for their taste in music and ideas on music we decided to target people relevant to our documentary such as street performers, bands, and cultural groups. We also came up with a range of questions rather than simply “what does music mean to you?” We chose to target street performers and people relevant to our topic to portray our purpose more bluntly because we want our audience to be able to understand clearly our aim and interest them at the same time, interviewing people playing on the streets in the audiences home town lets them engage in these interviews and keeps them hooked in to the film. Also interview less people for more depth and interesting footage. Keeping the interviews short and also adding in cut away footage with the audio of the interview in the background adds things for the audience to engage in while watching instead of watching an interviewee for however long which will make them lose interest.
Having subtitles introducing each interviewee or scene We decided to physically film objects or have clips of relevant shots such as the Times Fm hat to introduce the interview with Dean McGovern or the clips of Kora’s music video Instead of subtitles and headings to introduce the interview with Laughton. Also for the vox pops we had Daniel (a member from our group) physically asking the question that everyone will be answering. Instead of the usual title introducing the next part to the documentary we wanted to add an eye catching interesting twist to it. Using relevant objects such as the times fm hat introduces the setting and interviewee and also captures the audience’s attention and makes them thing therefore makes them engage.
It also breaks apart each segment and is more eye appealing and professional compared to a blank screen yet it is a simple enough introduction.
We added the clip in of Kora playing and targeted Laughton in those clips thus subtly introducing him and the band. It shows him professionally before the interview singing etc and relaxed during the interview thus showing the contrast and all of this is done for the viewer to stay engaged. We also decided to add a range of things to introduce scenes so there nothing repeated and felt boring or expected so to introduce the vox pops we has the audio of our group member asking the question everyone was answering.
Having an animated title worded at the very beginning
Instead of having the title of the documentary at the very beginning of the film we decided to start off with a relevant quote and sequence of archival footage to give the idea of the film.
This automatically engages the audience from the beginning and relates strongly to the purpose of our doco thus giving them an idea of what it’s about. We want to start strong with small clips and audio of another quote and then introduce the title after a blank screen giving the audience time to reflect on what they have seen and read. We also decided to end the doco on the title as well thus ending simply but with meaning
Trying to introduce our documentary with subtitles
We decided not to have a summary about explaining the purpose of the documentary. As too much writing at the beginning may cause the audience to lose focus and we want them to be hooked in and involved from the beginning therefore we started with a simple yet bold quote.
Including only a single interview in our documentary
We chose to use two larger interviews because everything the interviewees were saying was relevant and important. We also decided to have a montage of vox pops Having one interview wouldn’t have been enough to show both sides of what we were trying to explain. We needed an art point of view and then a corporate side to it.
Vox pops
Which was well used to put across our main idea about image in one eye catching interesting section thus breaking up the Interviews.