LO4: Edit Logs

LO4: Evidencing of Focus Group and Feedback

Focus Group Feedback
The focus group that we showed our film to consisted of students from our college, they are the target audience for our documentary and also teachers, so that we would have a range of viewers. Our focus group was a range of a people so that we could gain a fair judgement about the documentary.

Evidence of Focus Group

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Age Rating of our film - based on focus group feedback

Based on the feedback that we gain from the focus group we decided to set the age rating of our documentary to a U rating. There are no graphics scenes or bad language used so it is definitely appropriate for a U-Rating.

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LO3: Final Film

I believe our final product meets the criteria required for the brief. The brief was to produce an original documentary short film lasting between 5-15 minutes, denoting the idea of how technology has taken over the younger generation lives. I believe we achieved this because we denote clear understanding on how important technology is in the interview clips said by our participants. We reached the target audience of our extract of our short film, as we aimed at the younger generation, this was achieved by using participants around the similar age 15-18 years to help the audience relate. To follow the documentary style we had informal video logs of participants to help within the genre. Our narrative was based on our own research with searching for participants and instructing them to follow certain rules for our short film. I believe overall we have achieve a high quality standard extract from a short film that I believe the most suitable platform would be social media such as YouTube and Facebook or published online on big televised websites such as BBC Three.

LO3: Applying appropriate visual effects and transitions and Linking audio to visuals and applying audio effects

Here is an example of how we removed sound to create dramatic effect.

 Evidence of appying audio effects to the footage.

 Here is an example of using using a visual effect called, gaussian blur on our footage.

Here is evidence of us using a push video tranistion in our film.

LO3: Evidence of Editing

The first part of the video about shows how we created the background for the green screen. We created the background using after effects. The aim was to create a background that was brighter in the centre, this was to highlight the people in the video during the interviews. To achieve this effect we found a tutorial on YouTube that guided us through the process of creating this background. We chose the solid cream colour as it is a clear and simple colour that doesn't distract viewers from the subject of the video. 

After we finished creating the background we exported it and then added it to Adobe Premiere. We then dragged it underneath all of the videos and then selected the green screen by dragging the effect "Ultra Key: on to all the videos necessary. When the video has the effect we then had to change the settings to aggressive, this was to get rid as much of the green screen as possible, this also gave a smooth outline to the volunteers.

To put all the interview videos into one scene we pasted on top of each other and resized and move them using the effects control. To tidy up this part of the video we used a grid to make sure that all the videos were in line with each other. We wanted all the people in the same shot just to show who is taking part in the social experiment. 

To explain some parts of the social experiment we had to write the questions as a title, to make sure this is not too plain and boring we added a swishing sound effect when the title came on. All of the titles came swiping to the right until it hit the centre, we then left the title on the screen long enough for viewers to read the swipe the title back off the screen to the right. When the title came of the screen we used the swishing sound again. We also used the same sound and effects on some of the Vlogs and interviews. 

We wanted to show the phone usage information creatively so we used the template of a text message on an iPhone which is one of the most popular phones with the most recognisable features. We wrote the usage information in the message template and popped it up on screen when it was required. When the messaged popped up on screen we used the default messaging tone of the iPhone which again is easily detected. To pop the message up we resized and moved the message using the effects controls.

Some of the Vlogs didn't fit the screen correctly, this meant that without having to crop the edges off we create the double video effect. We did this by duplicating the videos and enlarging them behind the original. We then used the Gaussian blur effect to blur out the video behind however we controlled the blurriness so the video can still be recognised. We think this was a good effect as it main the video have more appeal to it because even though the video underneath was blurry it allowed us to the basic mirror image of the video in front.

Some of the Vlogs were also not shot in the best lighting conditions, this meant that we had to play around with the brightness and contrast of the videos by dragging the brightness and contrast effect on to the videos necessary. The quality of some of the interviews at the beginning needed to be changed as the camera was not correctly focused on some people. This was down to the fact that we try not to move the equipment as much as possible in order to keep the continuity. We enhance quality of the videos by changing the strength of the sharpness effect.

For the credits we used the default title scroll, we used this as it is the most professional way to present the final part of our work. We changed the speed of it so it doesn't last too long but it was not to fast that it could not be read.

LO3: Producing and review our offline edit

This is our offline edit for our Unit 41

The main editing of the footage that we had to do was to edit out the green screen. The effect that we used was as ultra key tool, this tool allows you to select a colour that you want to remove. In our case the colour we wanted to remove is green, and we replaced it with a gradient tan background that we got of a royalty free website. The only issue that we had with the footage was the wrinkles in the green screen, we found it difficult to remove the darker green areas. Hence why in some of the videos you can see what looks like creases on the backdrop. We also had problems with the audio when it was projected onto a big screen, on ordinary computers and laptops the audio sounded fine. But for some reason when we put it onto a big screen to show to our focus group the audio was crackly. However, overall despite these problems I still think that we created a successful product that fits with the brief.

LO3: RAW Footage