In the last two weeks I have undertaken the following:
The last two weeks I jumped out of development of my initial story and script and spent more time in a combination of pre-production and production. I believe I should have spent more time in the development phase than I did because I only had basic research on my topic areas I will be exploring in my short documentary. Having better understanding meant that my questions around that could be more specific and give a real flow to my story.
In the development phase I began casting straight away for Entrepreneurs and for a second camera videographer (Robert Ornelas) so I could prepare for the interview in the coming weeks. I did a practice interview with an upcoming Entrepreneur Jonathan Tilley to test shoot our sound, …show more content…
My sound after noise reduction effect. Text Box: Source: Audacity. My original sound recording. Description: Macintosh HD:Users:SallyArnott:Dropbox:Screenshots:Screenshot 2015-08-06 18.22.03.png
The problem I have is that the interviewers voice sounds a bit muffled. I will conduct more research on noise reduction and experiment next week with Audacity to work out how to get the perfect sound.
The things I learned from my first interview and will work on before next weeks interviews are:
· It’s good to give my subjects a bit of coaching and instructions of my approach on what is expected in their answers to avoid issues later in the editing room. Jonathan talked fast paced and in first-person and as if he was educating on the topic of Entrepreneurs rather than on his experience).
· Interviews need careful planning! I need to do some more background research on my next subjects and better questions and techniques so that i am able to bring out the dynamic of characters, emotion and their personal stories. In an article on Studentfilmakers.com, Artis (2001) provides guidance on “The Art Of The Documentary Interview” which will be very
The last two weeks I jumped out of development of my initial story and script and spent more time in a combination of pre-production and production. I believe I should have spent more time in the development phase than I did because I only had basic research on my topic areas I will be exploring in my short documentary. Having better understanding meant that my questions around that could be more specific and give a real flow to my story.
In the development phase I began casting straight away for Entrepreneurs and for a second camera videographer (Robert Ornelas) so I could prepare for the interview in the coming weeks. I did a practice interview with an upcoming Entrepreneur Jonathan Tilley to test shoot our sound, …show more content…
My sound after noise reduction effect. Text Box: Source: Audacity. My original sound recording. Description: Macintosh HD:Users:SallyArnott:Dropbox:Screenshots:Screenshot 2015-08-06 18.22.03.png
The problem I have is that the interviewers voice sounds a bit muffled. I will conduct more research on noise reduction and experiment next week with Audacity to work out how to get the perfect sound.
The things I learned from my first interview and will work on before next weeks interviews are:
· It’s good to give my subjects a bit of coaching and instructions of my approach on what is expected in their answers to avoid issues later in the editing room. Jonathan talked fast paced and in first-person and as if he was educating on the topic of Entrepreneurs rather than on his experience).
· Interviews need careful planning! I need to do some more background research on my next subjects and better questions and techniques so that i am able to bring out the dynamic of characters, emotion and their personal stories. In an article on Studentfilmakers.com, Artis (2001) provides guidance on “The Art Of The Documentary Interview” which will be very