Analysing Rough Cut

After completing our rough cut, I have decided to go through our rough version and analyse it and see what we could have done better and what was good.

I have started at the beginning of the video and I have decided to go through it and pick out the parts which I think we need to improve on and how.

This first image shows you the opening credits which are basically the logos that were needed for the video and also a text introduction to the documentary and who is speaking. I think that the logos and effects with them work really well, however, I think that it is a long gap of silence and that it would benefit from some sound to make it more interesting.

I then went on to look at the introducing of the interviews. These done using simple text and fonts and just in black and white. I think that these were also a bit too quiet and that we could have used the audio from the footage that is going to played after, to play over the intro. The image below then goes into another frame which introduces Simon Bates.

I have also found that some of the shots that we have chosen for the live footage, are very dark and hard to tell what is going on. I think that we either need to find some other shots or if they are none of the same footage we will have to fill it in with something else. The images below show a bit of what the certain parts of footage are like.

I think that overall it was a good first attempt but it still really needs some work. To make it more interesting it needs to have some of the audio in the background still playing under the voiceover of the interviews. Some of the footage needs replacing or getting rid of and it also needs to be shortened a bit and cut a bit quicker to make it more viewable.