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.