This blog documents the weekly progress I've made on the Documenatry project.
Week: 2
In this week we had been assigned our team and even though our teacher wanted us to be in teams with diffrent people but luckily enough I got two of my past teammates so I think its going to go well. Aswell we had been informed that we would be making the first 3-5 minute of a crime documentary. To be honest I'm not quite enthusiastic about this topic as I'm not particularly intrested in this topic. Aswell we watched 2 documentaries in class which conrtibuted into our research.
Week: 3
In week 3 we had decided on what crime we would make this documentary about and put it in our statement of intent. We want to make a documentary about an illigal cult that has a history of making journalist disapear and stopping people that critisize it among other conspiracies.
Week: 4
In this week I began to create the screenplay for my documentary and aswell me and my group finalized the idea for the documnetary and we have a clear consies image of the shots and the sequences. My group member kenzo aswell with this knowledge has began to do the story board for the firsts scenes and we also had decided on where to shoot the documentary and the interviews within.
Week:5
In this week, we continued our screenplay and story board and aswell madea filming schedule. I think we will begin schooting soon especially after our screen play is completed. Right now we need to find actors props/ costumes (cloaks masks ) lighting ( but I think we wanna use candles). we have also been deciding on roles to give each other when filming.
Week:6
In this week we began planning for our CRs. To be honest I prefer the old ccrs as the new essay format feels mundane and boring but I think it will be more streamlined as we didnt have to make so many diffrent types of media to answer our ccrs this week we also began shooting the interviews scenes I think it went well but theres alot of retakes so well have to filter the good ones.
Week: 7
This week I filmed the interview scenes for the documentary however the videos ended up grainy and lacks detail so I may want to reshoot or preferably find another solution. As well we had begun our classwork post and flled up our filming schcedule as we planned to shoot again on thursday-friday about the cult scene. The shooting was cancelled as we weren't able to get costumes and one of our group members got sick. I think well have to find an alternative and work around our sick teammate.
Week:8
In this week we had to submit our project but thankfully our teacher extended the deadline by a day which saved us immensly as our team mate was sick for almost the whole week so the other group members had to cover for her but she did come in clutch when making the thumbnail .as well we had shot our footage really late so this is the week we did editting aswell and we even had to record some extra scenes such as the drone operator and the cult house. overall this was week was just really stressful as we had to cram everything in a short time frame.