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i set to achieve characteristics of documentaries like expository which i did quite well with the the voice over but also i used performative as the documentary is more of how i feel like music influences fashion as those artist and groups i talked about have influenced me myself which i feel like i maybe should've talked about more to show that.

My influence for the voice over style were mostly youtube commentary videos which do similar stuff like using stock footage then talking over it showing pictures and videos of what they are talking about which i used this technique a lot in the voice over section when talking about an artist showed picture of said artist and what they are doing, the interview part wasn't really influenced by anything i just thought it would be a cool add on to the documentary.

I selected these because i feel like i like to express my own opinion so trying to go for a performative would allow me to do that however the main reason for expository is because i didn't really want to be on camera.

I used both non diegetic and diegetic sound as it fitted in to my documentary there wasn't really any particular reason to why as the only non diegetic sounds were the interviews, but i feel like i used diegtic more as its to do with music which i feel like you can understand and fell the music more when you listen to it in a more no diegetic way.

I think i did get my message across quite well as the evidence i used is clear and i feel like my documentary isnt about anything no ones heard before its more of a documentary that makes you realise what im saying is true.

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Today I looked at all the different types of documentaries and how each one differs but still has the same general theme of informing the audience of said specific subject.

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It helped me to understand more about each documentary and how each is unique and helped me narrow down on which styles I liked and didn't like so I could use on in my documentary.

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Callum talked to use about the exposure triangle to see how much we remembered from last year.

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ISO is a camera setting which will brighten or darken your photo or video. As you increase your ISO number, your photos will grow progressively brighter. can be grainy.

Shutter Speed is the length of time the camera shutter is open and how often you can see the screen. its looks more smooth when higher and quite choppy when lower.

Aperture is how the camera lens affects the brightness and has an effect on the depth of field.

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I am happy Callum taught us this again as I forgot most of it so getting a recap really helped me how to understand how to use the camera to its fullest potential so I can get the best shots I want for my documentary and other future projects.

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we went back over the lighting techniques we learnt in the first year with James and he took us to the studio to show us, I was the person being used to showcase the lightining techniques.

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Key Light - Main source of light from infront

Fill Light - Fills in light on areas which the key light doesn't

Back Light - Light which covers the subject from the back

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I found this really helpful as again like the exposure triangle I forgot quite a bit of this so getting it refreshed in my mind will be really helpful for upcoming projects as well as my documentary.

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How to write a script and treatment - James

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How to write a script and treatment - James

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James taught us how to write a script with common techniques and then as a class we wrote a treatment about James's brother , after that he taught us how to write a script/screenplay which we worked on a bit together about a harry potter scene and then finished it on are own.

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I enjoyed this lesson a lot as last time I made a script for my short film I found it very hard and confusing but going through it together as a class made it so much easier to understand as well as learning new techniques and even new things completely like a treatment which until this lesson I never knew about so it helped out a lot for my documentary.

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We wrote voxpox questions on the topic of our interview then went around college asking people the questions and interviewing them.

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It helped me to gain more confidence in asking people questions as well as even the whole interview part as well and how to properly interview someone to use in my documentary.

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We learnt how to find examples and definitions of documentary types on websites, books etc so we could use them for are essay.

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This was really helpful as you had to write and structure the essay in a certain format so learning this information was crucial so our essays were actually valid and not done wrong so without this lesson I feel like I wouldn't have been able to from my essay right.

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This was very hard and not easy as it took quite a while too complete I thought the word requirement would be the tricky part but it was what to write about, but eventually I was able to do it with a bit of James's help.

This also helped me understand how much similarities and differences each documentary type had and helped me to come up with my final decision on what documentary I am going to do even though I wasn't fully committed to one style seeing how a lot of documentaries used multiple styles I thought it would do the same.

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i decided to brain storm my idea by doing a treament instead of a script first which helped me to know how i'm going to set the documentary out and what is going to happen in it, it was quite hard at first to come up with an idea as i knew i wanted it to be about fashion but what about it but then i came across a video which helped me commit to an idea.

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First I tried to do a interview of Amelia at my house but it didn't look to good something was off about it, I think the lighting and then the camera battery died so I had to charge it but we ran we would of ran out of time by the time it was charged so I came up with a new day to film her instead.

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At first i had an idea of doing 100 years of fashion so i was going to do the interviews for the first act so for the first day i decided i was going to just script write all the interview part then film the interviews then after write the rest of the script as i had an idea but didn't know how to write a script around it.

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This time I had a spare battery and I was at her house it was also darker this time which added to her goth like aesthetic i also had her sister help with the lighting and had more lights which made it so much better, an also I began on my script so and had newer questions which made it all so much easier overall the day 2 went well apart from one small thing which was the camera lens wasn't working but because I wasn't going to be able to film her again after this I had to make do.

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This time i went to film some b roll footage I was going to use for my documentary so i went to birmingham with some of my friends and went to some vintage shops to film the clothes, this was probably my favourite day for filming as all the shots i got looked so good and i was very happy only thing i would do next time is maybe get more shots of different parts of the stores.

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This was the last day for shooting as the rest of the documentary was going to be voice over and stock footage so on this day recorded the last 2 interviews of dan and oli which went surprisingly well, I did olis with no retakes and only had one retake for dans which made it so much quicker so I could get onto to finishing my script, only difference is next time maybe try change locations as 1 interview in a house then 2 in a studio looks a bit weird.

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I realised that what my documentary was going to be about wasn't really going appealing to me anymore as i realised i don't really have an interest in what people back in the 1920s wore and wanted it to be something about what im passionate about which then came to me i enjoy music and fashion so why not combine the both, this made the treatment way easier to write and helped me structure how im going to do it much better.

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since i had a new idea of something i actually find interesting it made it so much easier to write a script for and didn't take me too long to write it as the only tricky part was getting the research of what i was going to talk about, overall making the script wasn't too hard but structuring how to say certain stuff for dialogue so the voice over sounded more formal was quite hard but i think it worked.

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these 2 days i was just editing the interviews so they werent too hard it was more of what order to put them in because i didnt realise the order like how it was in my script didn't really looked too good so i had to shuffle them around which took quite long as well as i had to cut most of the questions out as i didn't realise how long the interviews really were.

Another problem was that the audio was quite quiet which i didn't pick up on but only on some clips i think this might be mixed with fact that some clips i'm moving the camera around so it cant pick up the sound as good but also because some people i interviewed were louder than the others so next time i will definitely play them back more to check the audio.

Another problem i ran into over those 2 days was that dans interview i couldnt really see his clothes as they were too dark to pick up so i had to try fix that when editing which made it a little bit grainy but overall it look good.

And lastly was the interviews felt to dull like something was missing so i added music but just enough so it didn't feel empty but so you could still hear them as well as the music.

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I decided to record my voice over after editing the interviews as i would need it for the next part and editing then adding the voice over after i thought would be a lot harder, the voice over bit wasn't really too bad to record apar form i messed up what i was saying quite a bit but didn't take too long the only bad thing that happened was that the battery died so i had to come back the next day to record.

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these 2 days was when i was editing the actual documentary bit about how music and media influence peoples fashion, at first i dint know how to move from the interviews to to talking about each music group but then i thought id have a middle point leading up to talking about opium as then it doesn't just go straight from some interviews to talking seriously about a music group because it would look weird so i tried to make it look as least weird as possible but it still didn't look to right so next time id definitely plan it a bit more of how i am actually going to switch from one topic to another.

Moving onto editing for the actual music groups wasn't too hard the only hard bit was i realised that my b roll footage didn't really suit what i was talking about so i had to go get some stock footage which took some time definitely finding photos, so definitely need to plan that more if i do it again next time.

Another thing with the photos and videos was adding them in at the right time to sync up with the voice over as if i added them to early before i said it, it looked weird and same with the other way if i added them too late so it took me quite a while to match them up, another thing with the photos and videos is that some didn't fit the screen size so I had to make them all like fit into screen a certain way to make it look nice and add a video or another photo in the background to fill the screen so it didn't look weird.

The biggest problem i faced though was that i left to edit way too late which meant i couldn't finish my documentary how i wanted to and had to cut a lot of it out as i had no time to edit it in, overall thought editing part was very stressful and i shouldve gave myself more time and got all the pictured and videos i needed before editing so next time i will have to work on that but apart from that it turned out better than I would've thought for a tight schedule for editing.

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I developed a lot of new skills such as how to write and plan a script much more professionally but also more of a myslef skill like confidence as I feel this helped me get out my comfort zone and go out in public and film and also record my voice while people were watching which will help me in the future to be more confident with my work, another editing skill i picked up is colour grading which i didn't really use too much but for future projects will be good.

I found a lot difficult though but the main thing was what to do my documentary about and how to structure it as i've said before i changed my idea but also i edited it in a different way than my script which really made the whole editing part longer as i had to think about how to put it all together i think i need to start planning how im going to edit it as well as film it because i think i underestimate how hard editing something can be if you don't have an idea of how its going to turn out, but also getting everything ready to edit like the stock videos and footage which i got late ready too late which stopped me making the exact documentary i want. but one of the biggest problems is i left it too late to record shoot write edit and everything which i really need to work on is time management not just for projects but for the real world as well.

what i did well though was create a narrative i feel like what i was trying to get across in my documentary i managed to do as well as make it look watchable without having to turn off due to it being boring.