Audience Feedback

We showed our documentary to a variety of people, and asked for their feedback. We found this very useful and made some necessary changes in response to their comments.

Evaluation

I created a PowerPoint to evaluate my work.

Evaluation

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Magazine Advert

I created my magazine advert on Microsoft Publisher. I used my own photograph of a CCTV camera for the title image and edited this on PhotoImpact, making it black and white and adding a grain effect.

All the other photographs are screen shots taken from our documentary, apart from one which is a picture from Channel 4's Big Brother.

To create the small advert used at the bottom of my article we used Paint and Adobe Fireworks. We faded the flag on Fireworks, and used the smudge tool to make it fade into the background.

Creating our Radio Advert

We began by scripting our advert. We wanted to put across the point that CCTV effects everyone, which is why we wanted to use lots of different voices.

"In the bank

On the train

Down my road

By my car

At my school

They’re always watching.."

Change of Supporting Piece Idea

After discussing our support pieces, we decided to change our group piece from the advertising pack, to a radio advert. We made this decision because we feel that making a radio advert would be more challenging and interesting as it is something none of us have done before.

Music

We created background music on Garageband. We wanted to find something that didn't take away from the video or voice-over, but still helped to create the right atmosphere.

We found two tracks and mixed them together on Garageband.

We then edited this mix into iMovie.

Voice Over

After finishing all the editing, we recorded and edited the voice over. We recorded it on the Yeti microphone.

We then had to change the volume of all the clips so that the audio from the video was quieter than the music and the voice-over.

Anonymous Interview

We wanted to create an anonymous interview, where the identity of the speaker is protected. Unfortunately the actress we were going to use wasn't available, so one of our group members (Chloe) agreed to be interviewed.

Editing

We then had to edit Mr Scullys interview into our documentary.

We detached the sound from his interview and put the sound on top of other shots of around the school to break his interview up and illustrate his points.

We then edited the rest of our footage. We used several tools:

- We used the 'Stabilisation' tool to make the shots more steady.

- Whilst filming our clips, we avoided zooming in with the cameras, as we found that zooming made the shot unsteady and unclear. Instead, we used the tool 'Ken Burns' on iMovie in editing to replace zooms.

- We put a caption saying 'Coming Up' on the last clip.

- We edited all of our archive clips of newspaper cuttings and website screenshots, and made them very fast paced by making each clip no longer than 0.5 seconds.

Interview

As we decided we couldn't really use the interview with the shopkeeper, we needed to think of some more ideas for another interview. One of our ideas when we began the project was to interview a teacher at a school with CCTV to get their views and to talk about any controversy surrounding it.

Supporting Piece Draft

Supporting Pieces

As we have nearly finished our main documentary, we decided to start on our supporting pieces.

As a group we have decided to do an advertising pack, including a billboard poster, a bus stop poster and a magazine advert. We have also chosen our individual pieces, and I have decided to do a magazine interview.

Today we brainstormed some ideas for our advertising pack. We felt we needed something striking and eye catching, which would attract the public to watch our documentary.

As CCTV is a topic which effects everyone, we thought it was important to engage the public on a personal level through the posters. We did some research into bus stop advertising, and found out that there are now posters around which respond to people looking at them. We thought this could be interesting to use, as it makes them interactive.

Althought we liked this idea, we thought this might be a bit too complicated for our project, so we started to draw some drafts.

Interviewing

We asked the permission of the owner of a newsagents on Weybridge Highstreet to interview him about CCTV in his shop. We have prepared a list of questions that we want to ask him:

-Has CCTV proved useful in your shop?

-Do you personally feel safer with CCTV?

-How long have you had it installed?

Archive Footage

I found some archive footage from BBC news which would be good to include before our section on the 'Internet Eyes' website:

It is only a few seconds long, as we want to make sure our documentary is mainly our own footage. Archive footage will add some variety and this news report shows that the topic of CCTV is relevant at the moment and features in the news regularly.

We wanted to credit the BBC in our documentary, so we added a caption at the bottom of the screen during this clip which says 'BBC News'.

Interviews

We interviewed some people about their thoughts on CCTV on Weybridge Highstreet. Their answers varied from positive to negative views and include some interesting points to use in our documentary. We edited some of these interviews in, however the sound quality isn't as good as we had hoped because we filmed it near a main road, so we want to try and re-film some sections.

More editing...

As we have basically finished our opening, we can begin to edit some of the footage we have for our main documentary.

I scanned in some newspaper cuttings showing positive and negative headlines about CCTV and the surveillance society. I edited these together to make a short sequence using Windows Movie Maker, so that we could then use this in our documentary.

First Draft of Opening

Now we have finished all the initial editing for our opening we put it together with the voice-over.

We had to add an extra clip of a CCTV poster as we couldn't fit all of the dialogue we wanted into our original footage. Now our intro is about 20 seconds, which still leaves us lots of time for our main documentary.

As this was just our first attempt at the opening, we still have some changes we want to make:

-The voice-0ver needs to be louder than the music

-The font at the end needs to be changed to a more interesting one

We are going to change the font at the end to this:

We had to make this on www.cooltext.com as the fonts on iMovie weren't working.

Recording the Opening Voice-Over

Today we finished off editing our opening sequence by recording a voice over. We scripted it using interesting facts we had found from our research.

We tried to make the script engaging for the audience by presenting them with some shocking statistics and fast paced music. The opening introduces the documentary topic, and is intended to grab the viewers attention and keep them interested so they will want to watch the whole documentary.

My group decided that I should record the voice-over and found a quiet room to record. We used a 'Yeti' Microphone to give the voice-over a clear, professional quality. It was our first time using this equipment so we did some test recordings to experiment, and I practised saying the lines so they would have the right impact on the audience.

We then put the voice over onto iMovie and edited it into our opening. We had to adjust the volume of the music and voice over so that the music didn't overpower the voice, and the voice wasn't too loud.

Editing

Now we have nearly finished filming, we have started to edit the opening sequence on iMovie. We weren't happy one of the shots as the quality wasn't as good as we'd hoped and it was very shakey, so we've decided to re-film a small section of it.

We went to Weybridge Station and filmed a short clip of a CCTV camera moving to look at us, which is less shaky and clearer than our previous attempt.

We decided to speed up most of the clips as we wanted to make the opening engaging and exciting for the audience. We sped up each clip to 70% and we also stabilised some clips to make them more steady and smooth.

We then made some music to go with the opening on Garage Band. We wanted it to sound upbeat and exciting so made sure the music we created was fast and engaging.

We then transfered this music to iMovie and added it to our documentary. We made sure it stopped as the Titles appear on screen and to make it sound more professional we faded the music out.

For the title of our documentary, we added a transition called 'Lens Flare', which we thought was effective as it looks like the light and text is coming from the CCTV camera. The screen then fades to black and the title text appears.

We also added a transition at the beginning of the opening which was just a simple fade in from black to make it look neater.