We have now created and uploaded the final video! Check it out below:
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In the end I had roughly a week to edit, grade, master and export the final film for approval from my team mates before the deadline. Sorting through the vox pops I found to be the most time consuming, sorting through the interesting vs relevant answers in order to advance the story within the documentary, but also leave enough time to cover the remaining topics. Fortunately the direct injection method we used for the audio on set worked brilliantly and so I didn't have to waste further time syncing audio with visual.The colour grade I applied I also attempted to use to create a more obvious analogy through the film, having the image bright and vibrant to perhaps reflect some peoples view of the borough, before then changing to a duller, less contrasted image to represent the actual tone of it from what we've been told by the documentary.
A lot of the footage I found needed to be stabilised due to inaccurate use of the steadicam and the windy conditions the drone was flying in. This can introduce a lot of distortion into the image which can in turn become extremely distracting, fortunately I was able to tailor each image to reduce this effect.Finally the VFX involved and the music I added, ensuring they both kept in with the look of the film and that everything was compressed and mastered suitably to avoid any clipping within the audio.
In hindsight, I also should've worked more on the blending in the music toward the end of the piece, the splice is still slightly to obvious for me as the music jumps.
Also the way in which I stabilised the footage, whilst it was suitable for this type of production, I could've used more powerful programmes to remove it more effectively such as Avid's image stabilising plug-in.
Restrictions:
Obviously when working with members of the public we had to work within the guidelines of showing members who only gave consent to it. We did have a few members who were willing to speak to us but only gave us their responses on paper. While the later plan on these responses is that it would be then re-recorded by a voice actor, however we found their responses weren't weren't as interesting as the recorded ones.
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| ARTSTRAIN - Protest Songs (Emiline) |
Also on the music I feel we were fortunate. Our sound member was able to source some professional music from a local band they knew personally and were able to get us permission to use one of their songs as the backing for the piece. Even though the piece is a protest song about the bombing of Syria we still felt the mood/genre of the song was suitable enough to fit within the film.
The final product:
Personally I feel very pleased with the final film. It has an obvious movement development through it as we move through the different topics around homelessness, covers a lot of key information in the short timeframe it has. I find it also to be visually pleasing with a great variety of shots of Greenwich and the sound has come out very well, both from on set and post audio.
I do however feel the techniques used in capturing some of the shots and audio could've been improved to make the shots smoother and perhaps the audio cleaner to begin with so less sound work was needed in post.
Full project evaluation:
Despite the failings in our schedule unfortunately due to other aspects of the course we're all taking, I feel the pre-production to post production process went extremely smoothly. We were organised and able to capture all the media we needed. Maybe in the future however, I would endeavour to further the research aspect to get as much information as possible on the topic we're attempting to cover. This would open our creative options wider and also create a more accurate report on the content of the documentary.
