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in this section i will be giving a personal evaluation regarding my personal input to the documentary and and the problems we faced and how we overcame these problems to finish the documentary.
The main problem we encountered during filming of our documentary was getting the message we wanted to portray to the audience, basically the idea was settled on how media effects us and how we could instead of spending the money to help fuel the “capitalist machine” we could spend money on better things that could broaden our minds. this message took us a lot of meetings and a lot of thinking to come to the decision, to overcome this in terms on the production itself we thought this could be shown through the ‘Vox Pop’s’ we gathered asking the interviewees what the best way to spend their money hoping for a response which could be used to get the message across, an answer such as ”travel the world” we thought would portray the message brilliantly. To show how the Media effects us we used the same Vox pop idea but used questions such as “do you feel the Media effects us?” this would give us an answer we could use to show the audience they are effected like everyone else, so the solution for these problems was the same and although it took a few meetings to get it we eventually got the message across to the audience in a interesting and coherent way.
my main role during pre-production was a sort of creative advisor, by this i mean, because the idea we ended up doing wasn’t my idea i felt that i should allow the owner of the idea to come up with the basis for the documentary, saying that, i felt that we all had to have an hand in the documentary and have all put ideas into it, being a creative advisor for the group was a good role for me because i felt that my ideas we’re valid for the documentary, for example i came up with the idea of an actor playing an internal monolog, i felt this was a good way of getting the audience to relate to the documentary using the actor as a connection to the audience by breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience, although this was not as prominent in the final documentary as i would have liked it.
During the production in the group was camera and sound/boom handler, the camera role during the filming of the Vox pop’s production was shared between me and others within the group which i felt was a fair way to do it as we all had similar knowledge of the cameras as for the boom use during the production the same rules applied as we all had similar knowledge we swapped round using the boom for ever other Vox pop shot.
my post production role was mainly to work on the production file with the help of the group, i was in charge of getting the production file together and finished in time for the hand in, this tested my organisational skills but i found that i was able to collect and produce the file well, as for editing i felt that allowing the rest of the group to do the editing and having me as an advisor, much like my role during pre production i would focus on the look of the documentary and speak up and generally help the group edit by casting an eye across the whole editing process and the documentary, this was a role i was comfortable in although i would have liked to have got more involved within the editing instead of taking a back seat during this process.
During this production i feel that i have developed as a film maker thanks to the group i felt that the way we produced the start of the documentary (the t.v mash-up) this was a huge changed to anything i’ve made before and i was very happy with the production of it and the way it came up, i felt that i learnt ‘Vox pop’s’ can be powerful, before i found them to be dull, i have also learnt how to gather together a strong production file and organise it well, as for the way this documentary may affect my future work i feel that it will only do good to my film making but i don’t believe i will make anymore documentaries on this subject. i found the way we produced it interesting, enlightening, taught me to think harder about the message put across in my films and i believe i came out with all of this and a new focus in learning the practical aspects of production better.
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