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

Tattoo Promotion:

Within our documentary we are keen to promote the art of tattoos and to present both the positive and negative aspects.




Hazelle Moscrop, supports the idea of tattoos and is a good example of a person who expresses her personality through her body art and style. She is excited to therefore speak to us about her different tattoos and the ones she has planned for the future.


She has recently been on a photoshoot for a website called 'The Suicide Girls', which promotes young women with body-art such as tattoos and piercings, and is happy for us to view and show the pictures in our documentary.