what i have done..

I have just realised that i haven't really been documenting all of the work that i have contributed to this production, something that hennie,lauren and i will have to discuss to sort out credits... So far I came up with and pitched the idea, done some research (this was my slightly less active area) found the experts and liased with them. A fair bit of editing, and took part on almost all shoots, and did 2 on my own, this couldn't be helped and narrated the documentary. I know that Hennie and Lauren have contributed a lot too, Lauren's editng and camera skills are phenomenal, and to be honest she has taught me a lot about Final Cut. Hennie has been great on sound, and research, as to has Lauren, and to be honest sometimes just having them around when your all trying to make sense of the mess, is really helpful for moral. Both of them were really great at putting together the script, and shooting shedule, such an essential for documentaries, and it really helped us during the edit, when we were putting together the rough assembly.
I couldn't have done it on my own, and Im glad they were part of my production team.

update

today we have almost finished our documentary, its been long and hard, and very stressful. However after Helens viewing today she gave us some very positive feedback, and all that is left, is to sort out the audio levels, and some colour correction.. Thankfully the filming i did last night means we have the material we needed to cover the rest of the edits,which we did today. This unit has been the hardest to date, but the most enjoyable.

Editing

We have begun editing and when we initially added all the clips in we wanted it ended up being about 30 minutes long we knew this was way to long so we went through the whole project and typed up what everyone said and then printed it out and highlighted the most important bits which we knew we had to include in the film. The next day we cut down the film according to these highlighted bits and we managed to get it down to 16 minutes. We realised that the section about Ari's kidnap was 6 minutes long but we knew that once we had filmed the reconstruction that we would be able to cut this right down.

On Tuesday 29th November We knew that we wanted commentary in our documentary and so Jane and Lauren record the speech we wanted on Garage Band and then started to add it in to the project.

On Wednesday 30th November me and Jane began adding in the archive which all of us found and went through and made the film flow together so that the story made sense.

The documentary is coming along really well and once we have fitted in the reconstruction and therefore cut down Ari's speech we will be able to create a final cut and their for a final documentary ready to hand in.