Evaluation

Our pre-production work was very useful in keeping us organized throughout filming our documentary. We used our storyboard to remember what camera angles we were going to use and in what places. The script helped massively in keeping us organized, by this I mean we knew what we needed to do when, so when we went out filming we weren’t filming anything and everything we would know straight away where we needed to film and what was important to capture. We also used a risk assessment to make sure everything we did was safe and secure. As well as these we used a contact list, which we recorded everyone we interviewed and a budget sheet which we kept to see how much we spent. Personally I think the pre-production was key in the group being able to produce the documentary. It kept us organized and by the time we had finished the pre-production work all we had to do was read the script and look at the story board, we didn’t need to think a lot as we had planned it all already. We used the storyboard to focus a lot of detail on the different shots we were going to use. Our contact sheet was useful as it helped us to keep in touch when people when they were lost or going to be late. We looked back over our material list to make sure we hadn’t missed anything out. For example we hadn’t include archive footage (our material list reminded us) so after looking at the material list we went back to our documentary and added archive footage in. Our research helped to find out what specifically what we should find out and put in our documentary also what we should ask people, and what are archive footage should be on. Another reason our research helped as it helped us to gather information (statistics) about the subject that we could put straight in to our documentary. We used our production schedule to be able to meet our deadline, however even though we did meet the deadline, we weren’t able to stick to the schedule of meeting certain interviewees at certain times as some people had college or work so we had to rearrange times to see them this means the whole schedule didn’t work as planned as then dates of meeting people would clash with others. Our script helped to produce our final production as, if we hadn’t prepared questions to ask interviewees or when we were displaying information, it would be harder on us to have to improvise also it would waste time having to find information or think of questions just before being filmed.

Use illustrations when writing your report – print screen you storyboard when discussing it – print screen parts of final production when discussing elements.