Saturday, 2 April 2011

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.

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

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.


Sunday, 6 March 2011

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?

Saturday, 12 February 2011

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.