Research for the Documentary

I have decided to look through some documentaries on YouTube to see if I could find something that would be suitable for this project. I selected a couple, looked through them and thought about what kind of things from different videos may work for our documentary.

The first video I found was a documentary on AC/DC. I chose this one because I thought that it would useful to look at a video that focuses on bands and live performances. As we are working with the Junction and a lot of footage that will be used will be from the Fiver and the people connected with it talking. This video shows lives performances from AC/DC and the band talking in between and over the footage. I thought that this idea could work for our documentary, as we could use the Fiver footage, have bands, students and Junction staff talking in between or over the footage.

This video also uses quick cuts which I think would be suitable for the topic of the documentary and would fit well with the footage. It also uses the audio from the footage quietly under the interviews, which I think keeps the viewer interested and would be useful for us.

This next video really shows the educational side of documentary that we need to capture and get across. I have found a video which is actually about the Creative and Media Diploma and it shows interviews with educational practitioners and footage of all the students at work.

This video uses similar quick cuts to the AC/DC video and uses the audio of the footage under the interviews, which works well. I think that combining these two videos in our own way would work really well to get the educational side across, while working all the footage and audio to our advantage.