My Illegal Music Downloading Documentary

Evaluation Part 4

Gervaise Constraints

My Analysis in relation to other texts

Analysis in Relation to Other Texts2

Evaluation of Production Practise and Management Skills

Evaluation of Production MS SEVEN

Evaluation of My Finished Product

Evaluation of My Finished Product

Illegal Music Downloading Documentary

Production Log Week 12: Graphics

Graphics

2 out of 8 scenes were graphics in my documentary so I spent most of this week constructing my graphics in iMovie. The first graphical features were to do with the history of illegal music downloading. I managed to run a voiceover over this scene By gathering together images such as download software, facts and figures and logos.




The second graphical scene featured a quiz. To entertain my audience I made a scene using Microsoft PowerPoint and designed graphics that were exactly the same to "Who wants to be a millionaire". I made up an interactive quiz that asked the audience questions about certain facts and figures to do with illegal music downloading. I also ran a voiceover on this scene as I could ask the audience the questions with the graphics responding to my answers. Arranging the graphics were really difficult, when I tried to move them in certain locations of my documentary, they all ended up in different places.



I also used some graphics in the cutaways that I edited in the last scene. This included changing the colour of the interviews to black and white to make them look more effective, speeding them up and running a voiceover to make it sound as though I was summarizing my documentary.

March Production Schedule

Gervaise Mar Prod Schedule

Production Log Week 11: Editing

Editing

Now that I have received some feedback on the rough edit of my documentary, I could now put together the full version of other things that I have not included yet such as cutaways. I decided to feature cutaways in the interviews of my documentary. I chose to have them in my interviews because it helped with the pace of my documentary and made it look more relevant for the visual of my topic. The main advantage was that I had filmed the radio one presenter's awards and other props in his studio. This indicated to me that I could use these as cutaways to introduce him or even when he explains a certain topic.

As I have three interviews contributing in my documentary, I did not have to record a voiceover to ask the questions to my interviewee. However I added a voiceover to the remaining two of my interviews. This was simply because I did not ask my interviewee the questions when the camera was framed on them. Instead I asked my interviewee the question with the camera focused on me. To save time I ended up cutting myself out of myself in the interview to save time.

Production Log Week 10: Presentation

Presentation

Throughout this week I have been editing my documentary. However this was only a rough edited version of my documentary so that I could show my class and teacher what I had put together so far. The class was responsible for writing down what their opinion was on my documentary and after it was finished give feedback. I received some feedback that consisted of negative and positive points. The negative side was based on the fact that I did not have much in make my documentary interactive to my audience. The audience felt that this would have made my documentary much more engaging. Another point was that there was not a lot of exposition in my documentary making this very unsecure.

However on the plus side my audience thought my documentary had a humorous mode of address at the start which would have made them feel welcome to the documentary. They also thought it was well structured in terms of conventions such as the interviews. My interviewees gave me a lot of useful information that my audience enjoyed listening to and the fact that I managed to get hold of real people with real opinions made my documentary about illegal music downloading more genuine.

Overall this has taught me that I need to mention more facts and figures as well as something more fun to make my documentary more engaging to the audience. The fact that the topic I chose was about illegal music downloading meant that everyone from any gender, ethnicity or even religion can be involved by expressing their views on the topic.

My February Production Schedule

Gervaise Feb Prod Schedule

Production Log Week 9: Voxpops (Refilmed)

Vox-pops

This week I spent my time asking teenagers aged 16-18 what their opinion is on illegal music downloading. I decided to film in Romford South Street because this was a really busy place where I was sure to find teenagers of all genders and ethnicity's. At first I found it hard to find a place where it looked suitable to film and place where I wouldn't get in anyone way. I also found it hard to ask random people to give their opinion on illegal music downloading as a majority of them were either too busy or did not want to appear on camera.

I ended up getting 9 vox-pops all together. This boosted my confidence as I managed to use someone that gained a lot of attention toward the area I was filming in. The fact that I managed to gather contributors that were of both genders and ethnicity's made my documentary a lot more balanced and made this documentary aimed towards everyone and not just one specific target audience. All of the teenagers that contributed gave qualitative and quantitative answers that would give my audience that I am trying to educate a better understanding of how a group of 16-18 year olds truthfully feel about illegal music downloading

Production Log Week 8: Closing sequence and interview

Closing sequence and Radio one interview

I spent this week filming the closing sequence of my documentary. This involved the presenter filming at his house. I reason why I decided to use a living room was because it is a place that is quite informal and is a place where 16-18 year olds live with their parents. At the end of my documentary the presenter concludes what he has found out for his audience and then sit on a sofa and relaxes. I used a dolly to track backwards as the presenter walks towards the camera, this is to make the documentary more active rather than static. I also did this as the presenter is meant to turn on his DVD player by the TV and relax.

I also managed to set up an interview with a radio 1 DJ. To prove he was genuine, I filmed lots of creditials and awards that he has won and various other things in the studio including a banner, computer and DJ decks. I planned to have a voiceover followed by quick cutaways of the awards and props to introduce my interviewee. The radio one DJ produced a lot of useful information that would educate my audience about statistics and facts about the music industry. The shots were very well framed and looked professional which was ideal when I came to edit it.

Production Log Week 7: Vox-pops

Vox-pops



I thought that Sunday would be a good day to film my Vox-pops as this was a day that a lot of teenagers would not be busy. I decided to interview at least 4 teenagers two of them girls and the other two boys. I made sure that I got a shot of the teenagers socialising and playing around. I did this by tracking the camera around the location in which they were in a full circle. When it came to the filming the teenagers they gave me answers that would give good advice toward my target audience. One of them shared her experience of illegal music downloading and told the audience the consequence of what happened when she illegally downloaded music.

My cameraman placed the camera on a dolly and tracked around the presenter so that you could see the whole of the location I was filming in. I did this to let my audience know where I was and to let the presenter explain where he was and why he was there. I initially wanted to film on the other side of the sports hall but the lighting of the camera turned up really light. If it wasnt for this, then I would have been able to film the presenter while having the teenagers socialising behind the presenter.

Production Log week 6: Presenting

Presenting

On Thursday this week, I started filming the beginning of my documentary. I decided to film it outside the Chadwell Heath School entrance as that is where I introduce myself as a presenter, and start to explain what my documentary is about (why is music downloading view so negatively by the music industry). The theme was to act like an agent and as I had to feature some entertainment in my documentary, I covered a range of different places within this location such as, the road in which the school was located to film me hiding behind cars, in the school car park for me to perform a cartwheel and the Chadwell Heath main entrance to indicate I was going to film inside.

On Friday I also filmed in the Chadwell Heath corridor as you would see a lot of teenagers walking down it to get to their classes. It was also long enough in order to get to the next location that I wanted to go to. In this location I went through the different hobbies that teenagers are interested in to make the audience that I am trying to entertain more engaging by something they do in their everyday life. The results that I received from my questionnaire helped me majorly as I could use the hobbies that they do most and put them into a percentage. I then educated my audience by introducing the hobbies and having some actors in the background to imitate what I was saying so that the audience could visualise the information I produced. I then added my secondary research in and informed the audience by letting them know that 95% of people download music illegally.

Production Log Week 5 Interviews

Interviews

Within this week, I have uploaded the interview that I have done with PRS. After watching it through carefully I have noticed that I have filmed the questions that I have asked the interviewee in a different angle from the interviewer. As a result of this the two contributors looked as though they were facing the same way when it came to reviewing it on a computer. This was a problem for me as it made my filming look sloppy and unprofessional. However my teacher told me that I can switch the angle of the shot through final cut pro so that I would look as though I was looking in the right direction.





I had arranged an interview to go to the illegal downloaders house in my documentary for thursday this week in Rainham. As I only had two lessons that day, one of them being music as my first lesson and the other being media during the middle of the day, I felt that this would be an ideal day to film as I was allowed to film during my media lesson. My contributor also finished college at 12:00pm which was when I was granted permisson to leave during school and I also had no more lessons at the time. Unfortunately my contributor had to go out somewhere and left me short notice of the fact that I might not be able to film the interview that day. However I have arranged to meet him on sunday as we are both free and can film on sunday afternoon.

Shooting script

GERVAISE Shooting Script

Contributor questions

Illegal downloader questions

So why do you use illegally download music?

What sites do you prefer to use?

Have these sites ever caused you any problems?

PRS questions

So tell us a bit about what your organisation does?

How does illegal music downloading affect the artists that you represent?

What are the PRS trying to do to overcome this problem?

What led up to the conflict between YouTube and the PRS?

Downloading music illegally is becoming more wide spread, where do you see this heading?

Radio 1 presenter questions

Have music downloading sites impacted on your listening figures very much?

Downloading music is becoming more of a widespread, where do you see this heading?

Well now that we see artists like say for example drake Or even tinchy strider set up their own record labels without the need for distributors have you seen a big change in the type of artists coming through?

Production schedule January

Gervaise Jan Prod Schedule

Contact list

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