Even though that this is a different topic to our documentary that we produced, it has some similarities. I think that it also shows how we have done well on our documentary from the feedback that we got back from the Bournemouth students. For example, they have used quite slow cuts for their video and I think even though we had a topic that needed more cuts, more cuts in their video would have made it more interesting to watch. Their video flows quite smoothly, with the slow cuts, it helps to explain what they are trying to get across and helps you to see the full picture of their student life.
The music that they have used over the top of the footage works incredibly well and is very suitable for the audience that is aimed at. As students will be watching this to get an insight, they will be more interested as their is a sound track that is too their taste. Wehave done a similar thing with our documentary, we have used a sound track that relates to the video so that the viewers do not lose interest in what they are watching.
They have also used interviews, like we have within ours, and they are cut down short to make sure the video runs smoothly. This is what we were aiming to do with ours, as we had a lot of footage on interviews and we were finding it hard to cut down but we found the parts which were most relevant and put them together.
I continued to do a little more research and I found another documentary that I could try to come compare to our own, to see the similarities, how I would do things differently and how I could improve. When searching on YouTube, it is hard to find very many documentaries that are relevant to what we made. I starting searching for student made documentaries but they were not very serious so I widened by search to educational and music related documentaries and in the end I have decided go with a video another member of my group found - to compare for my second video.
This video has more of an educational feel to it as it is explaining the Creative and Media Diploma. I thought that this documentary would be useful to compare with because it relates to what we are doing at college and that we were making a documentary that shows the Creative and Media Diploma working with an outside business.
I think that the first thing I notice about this documentary is that is focuses on one school that is using the course and how they work with Liverpool consortium to complete a project called Artefact. I think that this is too vague and they should be showing other schools that are using this course, maybe the same project and getting their opinions too.
Within our documentary we have tried to visits or aspects of the project that we are doing, all the people that we come into contact with and that may explain what we are doing with Skillset, the Junction and Bournemouth more clearly. We have tried to get as many interviews as possible and tried to get the right people who we thought would be good to example each aspect. For example, we decided to interview Simon Bates and Gary to explain how the Junction worked with us to help us complete this project, we used Bournemouth staff and students to explain how we worked with them to improve our project and we also organised to get interviews with our Long Road staff to get their explanation on the project and the course.
However, I think that as Skillset were a big part of this project as well, it would have helped us to get a better video if we had researched and got in contact with them and organised an interview. This would have explained the structure of the project more clearly, especially to someone who is looking to find out what we do but have never heard of this or knows very little about it.
Another thing which I liked about this video was the way in which they introduced someone they interviewed. A name would appear on the screen when they started to speak, to tell the viewer who they are and what they do. We used the same concept but I think that the way in which they have done it is much more visually attractive and is clearly for the audience to see and understand. We we used this method, the text was in a very simple font, small and in the bottom left and they use reasonably big text, an interesting font and they have situated it more central so it is easy to see. Below are the comparisons between the video I researched and the video that we produced.
Finally, I think that our idea of using a small sound track underneath has worked quite well. The video I have researched didn't seem to use this and in my opinion it makes the video hard to pay attention to. We have used a compilation of shots at the beginning and end of our video, with the track louder of this and this adds to feel of video, an introduction and I think it makes it more interesting. However, our first edit went a little wrong and a lot of the soundtrack went over some of audio of the interviews so this needed to be edited again and this will be a lesson we take with us when editing again.
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