Documentary Evaluation

In my moving image , i did a documentary about me and what i do in a day and what i go through emotionally , the first idea i came up with was about extras during a film , i was planning to film my sister because she’s an extra in a film but however it would of been unreliable to follow through with the idea because she leaves at different times and if i followed her i probably wouldn’t be allowed to film her so there wouldn’t of been much film for the documentary so that’s why i changed the idea of my documentary , which is based on me .  the reason why i changed it to doing it based on me was because i thought it would be a good way for everyone to know me more and i thought it would be easier for me to film myself seeing as how i have a phone.

My documentary follows me through my days in college, i wanted to show people how i travel to college, what i do in college and i what i experience . in my documentary i started of with me on the train then i talked to the camera for a bit talking about i suffered with , i then used old videos of me being silly , but i would say its me just being me .  I would say that my documentary is expository documentary because of there’s direct access with the audience even though there isn’t an voice over , i would say that it’s still expository documentary .

The skills i developed in this documentary is editing skills and camera work and planning , ‘realised that i had think really hard about how i’m going to do this i had to think about days i would film , i would have to think about the timing as well. In the editing i developed many skills by myself , i learned how to cut and input soundtracks to make my video better . in the filming i had used my phone to film the rest of my documentary . it was very easier for me than using the camera because if i had used the schools camera it would of been a bit difficult because i would of have to book it at different times . I managed my times very well  i was able to film after school and it was very easy to film during class and when i’m with my friends or family . although i worked by myself in this documentary, i was able to ask people for help with editing . i worked well independently because it was based on me and seeing i was able to put the videos together the way i wanted to put it from start to finish .

The problems i had with this documentary was that i planned on getting a therapist session into the video . the reason why i wasn’t able to get a the session into the video was because of contact . the reason why i say this is because most of the the therapist wouldn’t contact me unless i was at home or during class so it was difficult to get the session into the film so i cancelled it . with editing because it was the first time i edited by myself i did have struggles with adding effects and mostly sounds because i have a low voice people weren’t able to hear me so i had to use a different software to help me make my voice louder .

I feel like my finishing video could’ve gone better if i had filmed a session with the schools therapist because it would’ve of been great and people would of seen how i handled my problems.