P4

A)

Before I began filming my documentary I made sure I had my production schedules filled out and knew what I wanted to film and how I wanted the documentary to look. This was crucial as I only had one week to film the skiing footage which the whole of my documentary was revolving around.

B)

My main goal when I was in Italy was to film as much as possible, this meant that I was filming every run and chairlift. Even if the footage was bad it was better than having not enough footage. After I got back from Italy I checked all of the footage and decided that it needed more than just the shots of skiing so I decided to add 3 interviews from people who went on the ski trip with me.

C)

  

I decided to create a vhs aesthetic to the documentary to give it a vintage feel. This also makes the documentary feel nostalgic which hooks the audience and keeps them watching. Other revisions I made to the documentary was creating an animated title and name cards for the interviewee’s.

D)

One of the things which I like about my documentary is the fact that I used multiple types of cameras throughout it. It starts with a cassette camcorder, When I was skiing I used a gopro, and when I interviewed people I used a digital camera. I also used a boom mic for the interview, and a light. All of these pieces of equipment helped not only with the outcome of my documentary but with my skills for the future as I filmed and recorded the sound all on my own.

E)

The aesthetic of my documentary has changed quite a bit from how I originally planned it to be. The footage has been edited a lot by adding noise, changing the colour balance and adding a border to all the footage. This transferred the footage from what looked like a holiday movie or a vlog to a documentary.

F)

Due to the content of my documentary I only had one week to film my footage. This meant I had to keep to my proposed production process and all other production docs. There wasn’t room for error when filming in Italy so I made sure that I recharged the gopro batteries overnight, had a spare on me, and that I wiped my SD card before I left.

G)

One piece of equipment that would have improved my documentary massively would have been a gimbal. This would have made my skiing footage 100x smoother and meant that I wouldn’t have had to slow down and cut up the clips so much. If I was in Italy for a month it would have helped a lot as well as I would have had free reign with the footage.