Production

pre- production

I started pre-production 23rd of January and in that day, I did the example interview. I did that interview with my class member, Thomas. I asked question and having his opinion about social media. Also, I did ask similar questions I would ask for my original interviews. Interview was 6 mins long and I had good comments for each question from him.

And this was setup I used for my set interview. I used three pointing lighting. And had to have one camera.

And I had big break, next video recording I did 07^th February. I did the second interview with Justin Smith course director of media level 3. During the interview, I asked his opinions about social media and how does he think about students interact with social media as lecture etc. That interview was 12 minutes long and for that I used multi- camera technique first time.

re- shoot

Then after shows to sample documentary, my lecture commented on that and said, there were too many stock footages I put into it. And if I’m going keep it that way that might affect to my grade. And he suggested me to do some re-shoots, add more clips my own. I also, agree with him because there wasn’t that much footages, I can show my creative ideas.

So, I did arrange to do some videos.  According to my plan I did “student using social media during in the college time”, some time lapse, “Streets and night-time streetlights”, “playing football” and “playing guitar”.

Post- production

Before starting post- production, I wanted to have stock footages to add this documentary. So, I wanted to have couple footages,

A time lapse of a very busy city

Two taking selfies

Some new report about social media

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s congress testimony

 I looked some website, which provides free stock footages.

Pexels and Videezy are free stock footage website, and I used these two websites to have the footages I wanted.

These were the footages I found from it,

 

And another three footages I download form YouTube.

 

In the beginning I had footages, and the plan was filling the rest of it with stock footages. But as mention before course lecture suggested me to have my footages rather than having stock footages. So, I did a re-shoot. And up with these footages.

After that I restarted again post- production. Next task was to find out perfect match soundtracks. It means, this documentary has two parts. So, 0 to 50 seconds it’s talking about revolution of social media and how positive that was. For that period was needed to have happy, major sounded soundtrack. And for that I chose to have Yanni’s ‘One man’s dream’ soundtrack. But because of copyright issues I had to change that. Therefore, I had to search a new soundtrack again and this soundtrack called “Goodbye My Dear” by Steffen Daum. And it also has positive sound same as the track I had. For the second part I chose “Dramatic Mystery Investigation” sound, which I found from YouTube and Its royalty free content.

First thing I did, made some folders in premiere pro, footages and music.

And I had to edit my first interview audio because it had lot of noise and very quiet. So, I did volume up and reduce the noise from that.

After that according to my script and storyboard I made the sequence.

 And I liked to add cinematic black bars. For that I used ‘crop’ tool.

 

Then, I started to colour grade the whole sequence. For that I used premade ‘LUT’. IWLTBAP Aspen – Standard which I used for that.

Because of my mistake I hadn’t use a tie for my first interview. According that situation, I got interviewee’s audio only. And it very low. So, I had to put my question on the screen, and I was need it to appearance in the screen nicely. For that, I decided to use ‘typewriter effect’. Typewriter effect is use of typewriter sound effect and put some word in to the screen according to that sounds. I had to add the question one by one and for that I made new sequence as well.

Finally the captions, the reason I decided to add caption during the production period lot of people said it’s good or have caption because sometimes my pronunciation wasn’t that clear. According to that used of caption tool, selected open subtitle and put captions to it.

Overall, I would say production wasn’t easy that much and had to think about production to be my own. That was a good lesson as well. Also, I learnt some new stuff and practice the stuff I already known in adobe premiere pro.