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.