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.

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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...