In game footage

Throughout the production of our media project we have included various footage from a range of different video-games, including "Grand Theft Auto, "Call of Duty" and "Fifa". However we have made use of particularly unusual technique in terms of editing when making use of the footage. We have presented game footage in a small box in the bottom left corner of the screen, this is accompanied by footage of both myself and Tom playing the video games on a console. We felt that we were allowing the audience to see both perspectives of our activity in one shot, it is an interesting and visually attractive editing technique.

We achieved the effect on premiere pro by overlapping both pieces of footage and minimizing the size of the screen. We then placed it in the bottom left corner of the screen and accompanied it with our other footage of myself and Tom playing thd game. At the moment the in game footage consists of game play from "Call of Duty", which we have already used in the documentary, however we are planning to change it to footage that the audience has not seen before such as "Grand Theft Auto" or "Fifa". However we will most certainly be using the same editing technique due to the effective outcome.

Nodding Shots

Having done intense research of the documentary genre both in class and as extra work, we have learnt that "nodding shots" are an important convention. They are used in interviews to backchannel an affirmative response and a sense of understanding to the person being interviewed. This often creates a more comfortable atmosphere for the person giving an answer, and can often lead to a more responsive interview. Therefore in our editing we have made strong efforts to include this important convention in order to achieve an effective outcome. During the interview with Julie Maitland we have included a medium close up shot of myself and Tom agreeing to the answer she is giving, indicated by our supportive nodding in agreement. We felt we applying to an important code and convention of the genre, as well as indicating that we want the most responsive answers from our interviews.

We have also included an expert interview with a parent of two Nick Wearing, yet we still have to film nodding shots for his footage. When we made use of the technique the first time we felt it would be effective to use it again for Nick. Therefore the group are creating a schedule for an appropriate time to film this new footage, it will again consist of myself and Tom (the duel presenters) agreeing to what Nick is saying. I feel that our group are displaying clear enthusiasm and determination to use familiar codes and conventions from the documentary genre.

Evidence of our progress in Garageband

Risk Assessment

Edting our clips

To edit our logged clips into the real documentary we are using the software called premier pro. After we have logged the certain parts of the footage we have got, they go into a logged folder. This then allows us to get the edited footage and drag it onto the timeline for real video. Once it is on the time line we can then edit the length of the clip, the speed, zoom in/out etc.

Garageband Progress

This is just some evidence of the work that we have been doing throughout the lessons. We are currently trying to create various soundtracks to use in our documentary. we are using garage band to create the music for both the introduction and the background music. overall we will make about 3 different simple soundtracks to use through out our documentary bringing them in out at different parts. those songs are simple but fit the stye and topic of our documentary and due to them just being played in the background they do not need to stand out that much, so by making them simple we can repeat the melody to make a good simple hick song for our documentary.

Storyboarding our documentary