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PRELIMINARY TASK: review

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 We were asked to work on an interview in class and this was exciting for me as it mean ti got more time learning infant and behind the camera  we first set up the green screen which wasn't too difficult as we just had to pull up to for the screen to stand and we didn't have to particularly place it in a certain place as it was just going to be used as the background of the interview  we then set up the camera with the stands , then I tested the camera to make sure all was well before we went ahead shooting where I found that my sound wasn't working which was very concerning but eventually I realised I had plugged the sound into the wrong ......... we then got the lights out and the first problem we faced was where we wanted the lights didn't have a socket near it so we had to go look for an extension cable so that we could get the lighting just right where we where able to play around with the light exposures where at first the 2 sides of the actors face was lit but th...

PRELIMINARY TASK VIDEO

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  Reflection :  This task helped me work on my editing , in particular how to cut sounds and cut between clips and add another clip of what the subject is talking about  looking back at this I shouldn't have rushed this as it could have been much better 

RESEARCH: Research on Dziga Vertov

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Research : Bill Nicholl's 6 modes of documentary

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(press the link to view Prezi presentation)   https://prezi.com/view/dS4jTYGpxWPGNPZh6UMC/

RESEARCH: Documentary genres

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  Watch my Powtoon: Documentary genres you can view the video here right now  working on getting it to YouTube 

RESEARCH: Types of montage

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 Metric montage  Rhythmic Montage

PLANNING: initial ideas

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My first initial idea was to create a documentary about a historical person like barak Obama or even Donald trump then I had the idea to create it about my icon in football like Figo or pele  All these ideas where great but I needed something that made me want to jump out of my seat  I also thought to myself about my interests and how I could use that to create something and thought to create something around horses  I then landed upon creating a documentary not of anyone real but of a character I create that's a high school sports player trying to make it professional , could be :  -rutgby  -swimming  -basketball or create a documentary about war and a historical even that took place  or create a documentary around fashion could do on on Virgil abloh  REFLECTION : I was able to create a vision board of ideas which helped me look at all my ideas at once and to decide which one I had more of a story to talk about and how I could create meaning whil...