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P1

Plan

Neil Youth-worker Wylie: 

  • Helping Community -skate park 

  • Kids

  • Nailsea school - Breakfast club

  • Religious Background - Church

  • Scottish heritage 

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Set design
Budget 

If I was a freelancer I would have to buy all the equipment myself.

The following equipment includes:

  • Panasonic G80 - £700

  • Canon 700D - £300

  • Slider -  £30

  • DJI Osmo - £200

  • Tripod X2 - £40

  • Viltrox Light- £30

  • Clip on microphone - £50

  • Road Mic - £50                                          Total: £1400

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To make profit I would charge £100 per day of filming which would mean it would only take me 14 days to get my money back. 

Legal and ethical issues: 

Legal:  anything that is illegal

Ethical: anything that may upset, offend or anger people 

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Legal issues within film involve things such as copyright law which is a big thing in the media industry. This is for the conservation of the company's product itself. The characters, the stript, the soundtrack etc. This is so that the original material cannot be used by someone else and therefore your product is safe and can't be reproduced by someone else. 

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Offensive Material: The material that might harm or offend a person physically and mentally. This is mostly the case in films that have the 18 age certificate which have striking content such as violence, blood and gore. The film business use these certificates to separate what is acceptable for young children and young adults

 

Libel Law: Is when you damage a person or a companies reputation in long-lasting form through your own content. This is generally done to a wide audience with things such as social media, film and television to broadcasts something damaging to that person's or companies reputation. 

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To get permission from the school we asked Neil who works at the school to ask if it was ok for us to do some filming at the school. We also wrote an email to the school to make sure it was alright for us to film at the school. 

Proposed scheduling time: My documentary would be shown on either Channel 4 or BBC Three because they specialise in documentaries based around everyday people and everyday lives. You'd be able to access the documentary anytime on BBC Three, as its all online, and it would be shown on channel 4 at 8pm.  The reason for this is because 8pm is a primetime slot which refers to the time of day at which audience viewing figures will be at its highest, meaning most of the the target audience will be watching the documentary. The reason for it being shown on channel four is because the channel specialises in unique individuals and Neil definitely fits that category with his mix of religion, skateboarding and youth work. 

P2

Setting up appropriate equipment: The equipment I used was a canon 700D, a road mic, a clip on mic and a tripod. I used the clip on mic and the tripod for the interview with Neil. This meant that the camera could be stationary the whole time and that I could get the best sound quality possible with the clip on mic. The camera and road mic was used for general film making, without using the tripod it made the camera more mobile and made it easy to operate which meant I could get shots from different angles. I also used a slider for either a worm's eye view shot or to create a nice smooth shot.           

Following script/storyboard:  Both my script and storyboard helped me to understand which shots were needed and what audio elements were required. My script included the four main parts of the documentary, giving an example of a shot from each scene and the audio element that would accompany it. This made me aware of the shot types I needed to get and that in order to make the docuemtary interesting I would have to take a variety of shot types and techniques. The storyboard showed me my documentary needed structure, assembly the pictures in a particular order. 

Following safe working practices: My Risk assessment and Recce referred to various risks and considerations that I would have to take into account when filming in the different locations. I stuck to these considerations rigidly as I wanted to make sure I was safe at all times and wouldn't harm myself or pedestrians around me in anyway. While filming at the skatepark I kept myself safe by making sure I stayed away from the edge when filming on the ramps meaning I wouldn't fall and potentially hurt myself. 

Following production processes: In order to monitor and maintain footage after each shot I would reply it back on the camera to see if it was either out of focus, shaky or just simply needed re-doing. I used a 64GB memory card which was a good amount to contain all my footage, however just in case the memory becomes corrupt or the footage gets lost I used a hard drive to store all my footage which made sure all the footage I collected would be safe. 

P3

In my hard drive I have put all the footage I've captured into a folder called "Youth Worker Wylie" which is the name of the film. Once you click on that file, you see a load of footage for the video. The footage is split into two different parts; footage from the Canon and footage from the Lumix. 

Offline edit: This is my offline edit which doesn't include any music or any graphics/texts. I intend to add slow, upbeat music in the background which would create a dramatic tone and atmosphere to the film, adding a new layer to the film. People liked the mix between the interviews and the cinematic shots however some of the criticism I received was that the sound sounded fuzzy which I would have to adjust to fit with the background music. 

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For this project me and my partner used two different camera's, a Canon 700D and Lumix this meant that the two different cameras produced footage that had two different ratios. The canon footage would be too small where as the Lumix footage would be too big. To adjust this I had to go into the video effects and change the scale of the footage to fit the screen. For all of the Canon footage I changed the scale from 100 to 150 increasing the size to fit the screen. The Lumix footage had to be decreased from 100 to 50. Doing this meant that all the footage was the same size, making it look like it was all filmed on one camera. 

Those five separate sections above are all one shot. The first two sections are in normal speed but the second sections was cut either side in order to be duplicated for the next two sections. The third section is the same shot as the previous clip expect I have reversed the shot which created the effect of Neil going backwards on his skateboard, I achieved this by going onto the speed effect and clicking the box next the Reverse Speed. The fourth section is basically the second section but slowed down to 50% and again I did this by going into the speed effect and changing the 100 to 50. I decided to slow the shot down so that audience gets to see the trick in the best light and by slowing it down it meant the audience could really understand how cool the trick is; creating a better impression of Neil on the audience. For the last section I decided to speed the clip up which would see Neil finish his trick and skate off in the other direction. To increase the speed I simply changed the 100 to 125. The reason behind cutting up this shot was so that the audience could see the different parts of the trick and making the trick lasts longer, will leave a bigger impact on the audience. 

The texts I used is very basic and simple because I didn't want to distract the audience from the main focus of the film which is Neil.  The "MORE THAN JUST A YOUTH WORKER" reflects the main message of the film which is that Neil does more than people might expect him to do.

As I mention before two cameras were used during the production of this film; a Canon and a Lumix. When looking back on the footage the Lumix camera came out yellow while shooting inside therefore in order for it to match the other footage I had to change the colour grading of the Lumix footage (Top left footage needed to match the top right footage). I accomplished this by going onto effects, colour correction and changing the exposure, the whiteness, the midtowns and the highlights. 

I used and exponential fade to transition from the music to an interview with Neil. This meant that the music would have a slow and gradual fade out creating a smooth transition between the music and the interview. 

When the voiceover of Neil and the background music was playing at the same time, I had to make sure that the voiceover was loud enough to be heard over the top of the music and without them clashing. I accomplished this by changing the volumes on the audio. The voiceover was made 3 volumes higher than the background music which allowed the audience to clearly hear what Neil was saying, I kept this the same throughout the editing.

Final Film

P4

A) The first part of the process was to put together asepects of Neil's life that we wanted to include in the film, deciding to only focus on three or four aspects of his life. The next stage was to produce pre-production materials such as storyboards which showed us visually what the film would look like. After that we had to decide on locations that were suitable to use in the film, then we could start filming. The filming was relatively straightforward, completing it over a two week period. The final part of the process was to to edit the footage the that we had filmed. 

B) One of the key decsions that was made was that we wanted to shoot the interview in a church in order to portray his religious side in the best possible way and maybe helping him connect with God in the church; which might have provoked him to answer which much deeper replies. Another key decision made was during the editing process, when going through the interviews there were loads of great answers to the questions posed by us. However I couldn't include all of his interview therefore when choosing what to include in the final film I looked at the answers that not only explains what he does but why he does it. These replies would often have much heavier meaning to it. 

C) There were little changes made compared to the storyboard which shows that we stuck to the storyboard and script rigidly. One slight change to the storyboard was that we weren't able to get many shots of Neil with the kids. This was either due to the kids not wanting to be in the film or because we felt we wanted the film to be about Neil and not necessarily about the people around him. 

D) As mentioned before one of the camera's had a yellow tint to it when filming inside which effected the post-production process. The sound quality was fairly consistent although at times, because of the position of the mic, the sound would sometimes pick up the sound of his coat rustling while he was speaking.

E) Visually from the storyboard/script to the final outcome of the film has stayed consistent throughout, using shots from the storyboard such as a close up of Neil handing the food and wide shots of the skatepark. 

F) The proposed scheduling time works well as it combines the age of the target audience (16-24) and the channel (channel 4) which is great for giving a platform to unique individual such as Neil to get noticed to and to be appriceted for the work he does. 

G) One improvement that could be made is that some of the shots looked out of focus, to avoid that for next time is to change the focus of shot before recording or to rewatch the footage after recording to see whether I need to re-do the shot again. I think the film manages to capture the most important elements that make Neil who he is, allowing people to see Neil in the best way possible. A potential weakness of the film is that some of the editing looks quite jarring at times which means in some parts of the film it doesn't flow as well. 

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