Post Production Diary

Intro

First draft above ⌃

First draft in premiere pro

The first draft of my documentary was sort of the intro to the whole series I wanted to use some old footage that I had found from Sunderland to (hopefully) show how views have changed since then. Since I couldn't find many news articles about LGBT communities in the northeast. I thought it was a good piece of history (although sad).

I edited most of the footage in premiere pro, however the end piece of footage. I created outside on canva, so I could get the font that I wanted.

My aim for this first footage was to shock people, into seeing the horrible views about LGBT people not even 40 years ago and highlight why sometimes, change is still needed even though we do have more rights now.

Audience reaction

Everyone likes the old video footage and newspaper articles that I had found, which I am glad they paid off. 

It did what I wanted it to do, make people aware of outdated LGBT views.

A lot of people needed me to make the newspaper clips longer, and take out the portrait style clip, so in my next draft, I will 100% try my best to change it. 

I also need to rerecord the clips of myself, as I keep looking down which is not ideal and makes me seem unconfident in what I am saying, which may sway the viewer to not have full belief in the topic I am talking about.

I think getting this feedback is very helpful, as being in the early stages of production means I have more time to change it before the final product is done. It's giving me a proper insight into what audiences like and don't like about the documentary.

Interview draft

Draft in video format ⌃

Draft in Premiere pro ⌃

For my second draft, I decided to edit the interviews of my fellow classmates when I interviewed them about LGBT subjects. I wanted these interviews to feel snappy and get a lot of people's opinions in one place. 

When editing, I always take inspiration from the youtube videos 'we asked 100 people..' by cut, I love the way we get to see loads of different people talk about the same topic at the same time. so when editing interviews, I always try and emulate that.

My aim for these interviews was to have another side to my interviews with people in the community as I wanted to raise awareness that education does not only affect people in the queer community, it also affects people outside the community. My aim was to try and broaden the audience for my documentary as queer education is meant for everyone; if everyone talks about it, it makes it more normalised for the next generation of people.

My interview achieved what I wanted it to, giving people a vast range of opinions and the fast pacing of the interview paid off as it helped people hear a lot of the views in a short period of time.

Changes for my documentary included:

• Changing volume levels, the volume of some of the interviews was too quiet, which made a striking contrast between the different interviews. After posting this form, this was the first thing that I fixed in my documentary upping the volumes.
• Adding some b-reel footage to cut up the interviews, while I understand that the interviews are long, I do not want anything to take away from the individual who is speaking. Adding B-reel footage would ultimately make the viewer focus more on what is happening on the screen than what the interviewee is saying.