YouTube Channel:

Here is a link to my YouTube channel which has an uploaded copy of our documentary and our Supporting Advert available for viewing:

Advert:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ellencranee?feature=mhum#p/u/1/lhlQCfR4BlI

Main Documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ellencranee?feature=mhum#p/u/2/p26kP9y4PDE

What have I learnt from our Documentary?

What have I learnt from our Documentary?

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Promotional Review:

I created a promotional review for my own supporting piece for our documentary. I wanted to create an article which reviews the documentary prior to its release, which would commonly be published in a magazine such as OK or Hello for a younger audience who may be interested in watching a poetic documentary. I rated the documentary out of time in bold which would capture a readers attention, as well as summing up the intenions behind the documentaries release and giving them a background knowledge about the history of tattooing. I chose to create a promotional review as this would be the sort of article I myself would read if I were interested in watching perhaps a film, reading a newly released novel or interested in a new documentary I may have seen briefly advertised on TV or Radio. I think it is important not to give too much away but to highlight the shows intentions and general info such as its release dates and which channel it will be aired on.

Group Supporting Piece:

We decided to create a television advert as our supporting piece for our tattooing documentary. We all wanted this to be something that would promote and intrigue our audience prior to the documentaries release. We decided that it should be around 30 seconds like, as an average replica to other documentary ads seen on television. As our documentary is aimed at a younger audience, our intention was to speed up shots, use a montage of our filming and archive footage, as well as use an unbeat, modern song which would appeal to our teenage/young adult viewers. Therefore, we converted the speeds of our footage, ensuring that we did not over use any shots, therefore adding in extra interviews etc which hypethetically would be used in a different part of our supposedly hour long episode. We used a drum and bass track called Iron Heart by Netsky which is extremely up-tempo, so we spent a long time matching up the rhythm of the track to our footage, as when the drop of the song takes place, the footage length speeds up and the montage of different shots is closer cut. We used a juxtaposition at the end, whereby the pace gets faster and faster and then suddenly there is a slow motion shot of a tattoo using the pull focus text transition, with the title 'How Thick is your Skin?' so as to intrique and capture audience attention. We used a voiceover of lauren saying 'Skin Deep, Sunday at 8', so our audience is fully aware of the release of our documentary. We edited the voiceover, using garageband, the speech was very conventional for a television advert in a effective yet simple way. This advert for Miami Ink has similar qualities to our advert as it is fast paced, uses sped up images and footage, and effectively uses the noise of the tattooing needle which we used throughout our documentary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSWExwVpjPs

Voiceover:

After testing out different background music for our final interview with a tattoo artist, we came to the conclusion that music seemed unnecessary as it muffled the artist's voice, preventing the viewer from fully understanding what he was saying.

We therefore decided to simply add a voiceover, over the establishing shot of the section of interskin.

I shot a zoom out shot of the sign interskin prior to interviewing our tattoo artist which we decided to use as the location shot for the final section of part one. We converted the speed so that we could slow it down, and further edited the colours to be brighter so our documentary was continually vibrant like many tattoos themselves.

We wanted to affirm to our viewer where we were and for what purpose, so we recorded Lauren on the Yeti speaking:

'We visited interskin studios to find out more about the tattooing process', before the start of our interview.

Creating our Titles:

After building up the foundations of our documentary and deciding on the order of each interview/section of our filming, we could eventually begin to add the extra details which would enhance interest and make it more conventional for our viewer.

We spent time testing out different types of backgrounds and techniques for creating a bold and memorable title for our documentary. As we are basing our entire documentary on tattooing, we wanted to ensure that the title was a continuation of this theme and therefore asked Hazelle to send us a picture of the tattoo on her side to use as a background.

We edited the photograph on iphoto and also on imovie, we also used an effect called Ken Burns so that the shot would track down the photograph which made it look much more professional.

After using this technique, we then added the text on top of our background photo, using a transition called Pull Focus so that initially the picture would be in clear focus, then the text would become clear and then finally the photograph again would be main focus.

This was successful as it draws in the viewers attention and we decided to use the same technique for our title for Audience Feedback, an interviewing question and also End of Part One to maintain a continuity.

Advanced Portfolio Evaluation

Evaluation:

Advanced Portfolio Evaluation

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Inbedding our new footage:

We have inbedded the imported footage from interskin into the introduction of our documentary by having 0.2 second shots of the process cut into sections of the continous shot of Camden.

We had to detach the audio of the tattoo needle and then attach it again to the shots of the process so there was a continous sound.

We then inbedded extra pictures for 0.2 seconds. Everything has to be fast paced to relate to our younger audience and to the upbeat music.

When testing out different techniques we decided to duplicate the pictures used and then mirror them using 'flip', so as to engage our audience.

By mixing up the footage in a sort of montage, this helps to interest our audience and also to show then tasters of what is up to come later on in the documentary.

Filming at Interskin:

We managed to call up Interskin: Staines and arrange an appointment where we could go in, film and interview the artists themselves.

We filmed and spoke to an artist who had been in the professsion from a very young age, who was happy to talk to us about his experiences and the inspiration behind his work. Further, we were able to film the work from his portfolio which we plan to inbed into a section of our documentary.

Lucky for us, two men were getting tattoos done and were happy to talk to us and have us film the process. We were able to get lots of different angles and shots of the process which we are beginning to speed up and edit together in a sort of montage.

It was such a successful trip and the work we have now imported and now beginning to piece together is starting to look very positive towards our final piece as we really needed the footage for our documentary to look realistic.

Voice Over:

For the opening sequence of our documentary, we wanted to introduce the meaning behind our work by stating a few interesting facts about the history and popularity of tattoos for our viewers.

We researched and scripted this opening section, finding out statistics about the amount of people who get them done, the origins of the word 'tattoo' and the history behind the artistic form which has grown to become much more acceptable and appreciated as a contemporary innovative expression.

We decided to use Matt Burge's voice as the commentary for our opening section, although we are contemplating using a voiceover later on in our documentary also.

We used Matt as he has a clearly spoken voice and an accent which murges well with our London shots of Camden.

We used the Yeti Microphone to record the facts over our footage, so that we could then adjust and cut the length of the voice-over easily, and further place it exactly where we thought necessary.

We recorded six facts individually and then added our music which we chose to be 'Hometown Glory (High Contrast Remix)' as a background track for this section, ducking out the sound slightly when Matt is talking.

Initial Title Ideas:

We wanted a bold and memorable title for our documentary, however, most importantly, we wanted a name that really summed up our message behind our creation which we could visually portray on a campaign poster or a DVD cover.

Skin Deep seemed appropriate as it is emphatic and catchy for an audience. It was a good idea to have it tattooed across the knuckles for our front cover as it straight away relates to the topic of our documentary and how we want to unearth the truths behind the skin creations.

We took the idea from an initial person we interviewed in Camden, who had 'Patience' written across his knuckles, and the boldness was effective and significant to the topic of our film.

Here are the initial drawings Claudie experimented with...

El Wood

We are incorporating pictures of the model El Wood into our documentary as she is an iconic figure for promoting individuality.

She has been a model for two years and is a well known face in the magazines INKED and FRONT.

She has a promotion page on facebook and a tumblr blog... http://elwoodmodel.tumblr.com/

We have started collecting photographs to use as a montage for a section of our documentary and further experimenting with different pieces of music which are fast paced to use for this specific section.

The pieces of copywrited music we are debating will be authorised when we have made our final decisions.

All our extra edits:

We've been making progress with our editing of Hazelle's interview by adding in all her lovely modelling photographs and sorting out the audio.

It was rather difficult when having to detach the audio of the interview and structure it to fit in with our photographs as well as match her speech, however, after lots of perserverence we have more or less managed to complete that section of our footage, ready to be pieced together with our Camden shots.

We also edited the lighting of the interview, changing it to a 'glow' so that it fitted in with our vibrant, young style of our poetic documentary.

We also downloaded a specific font from www.dafont.com which looks almost tattooed itself so that it fits in with the topic of our documentary. Originally we really wanted to design the names ourself as real tattoos and have them almost inked onto the screen, however, we found this very difficult to re-create on imovie, however, are still perservereing with the initial idea.

Here is a link to our specific font choice...

http://www.dafont.com/faith-collapsing.font