Day 1- We went to Warrington town centre to film our vox pops of different people of different ages asking them ‘what do you find attractive in a person?’ We asked about 30 people to get a variety of answers. We just wanted a single answer or a few words such as 'boys with blue eyes'. Most of the people that wanted to be filmed were of a younger teenage audience, we filmed quite a lot of answers but we would like a range of generations so that it shws variety, as some of the answers woul be to inappropriate and some others were cut to short for us to edit of.
Day 2- We went to town again to film more vox pops, unfortunately we didn’t get as many as day 1 due to bad weather and people didn’t want to be filmed as it was cold and town was quite quiet, however we got enough to put on our docuentary as we only want about ten vox pops, so that it doesnt take up too much time but is entertaining and interesting. We got some funny answers, with interesting and serious answers which makes it more interesting and enjoyable to watch.
Day 3- We filmed our first interview in Natalie’s house, we gave it a nice, short, homely and cute feel as we squashed the frame in and filmed a married couple on a couch to make it simple and all the focus was on the couple. It was of a younger couple, who have been together for a long time and are pregnant at the moment, showing the love and attraction between them. They were holding hands and hugging each other which made the scene even better, however when it came to edit we dicided not to put this interview in our documentary as some of the answers didn't match up and sounded abit un proffesional.
Day 4- We filmed a second interview of an older couple to give a variety of age groups, which shows difference in generation and difference in divorce, marriage, widow and single people. This couple worked perfectly they were a married couple in their late 40's, we had no background behind them just them sat on a simple coach making all the attention on the couple.
Day 5- We also filmed Natalie’s Nan who was a widower; however it didn’t work so well and took up too much time in the documentary so we deleted it, as the answers lasted to long, and when we cut some of the answer out it did not match up and sounded dodgey and wouldn't fit in with our piece.
Day 6- we filmed a third interview with two lesbians who met in college, so we filmed them in college asking questions about their relationship and how they met, which relates to the place that we filmed it and is relevant. We chose to interview lesbians as it shows a variety of sexes and ages, so that more people will want to watch it as it's not stereo-typed and shows a variety of people.
Day 7- - We searched around on the internet, itunes and music that is out today in the charts to find some songs that we could use on the introduction of our piece, we came across one with lyrics that would relate to attraction, it was upbeat, loud and fresh making our documentary seem that way also, it is also a song that has not been released in the charts before, so it would be quirky and represent just this attraction documentary.
Day 8- We captured all our archive footage of people kissing, holding hands, from films, TV programmes such as; skins, eastenders, friends, inbetweeners etc, to make it entertaining as well, and shows footage that is of the theme of our documentary. We then cut it all down and put it in an order that would flow well with our music.
Day 9- we filmed cut a way’s of people holding hands, walking, kissing, hugging-to add in over the narration and over certain parts of the interview.
After we got archive footage we filmed a physiologist in college, giving in depth answers and details about attraction, telling us the physiological reasons behind attraction. We filmed it in front of a computer in a small room, making it look professional; she was also wearing a red suit which relates to the them of love and
passion relating to our documentary.
Day 10- We found a suitable person to do our voice-over, we chose a girl who has a well spoken voice so that everyone can relate to her and understand what she is talking about, se has a loud, clear and bubbly voice, making i more enjoyable to listen to and more entertaining and fun. We recorded her in the red room, so that all we could here was her, with no background sounds, making it more proffesional. We wrote a script out so that she would say the exac correct things and then we coud edit it down and move it into the correct places.
Day 11- After we had captured all of our fiming, we inported it to Adobe Premire were we began to edit it all together. Our order of editing and shot numbers are all on our Edit Disicion List.
Editing Diary
1st- We captured all of the filming from our tape and put it imported it into adobe premier, so we could begin to edit our documentary together. Once it was all on the computer we watched all the clips we filmed though twice to make sure everything was ok, such as the sound and camera angles.
2nd- After we had done this, some things we had filmed we decided that we didn’t need and should probably be deleted, because they were boring, not needed, or wrong camera angles. We firstly deleted the interview with an older widowed lady as it went on for a long time and would of took up half of our documentary, it also didn’t seem very interesting or entertaining which was a big disappointment. After we removed this we then had to delete some of our vox pops, as some of the answers were inappropriate and rude, also two of our vox pops camera angles were incorrect and could not be fixed so we dicided to delete them.
3rd- We had an interview with a younger couple, who were going out for many years since they were teeangers, the women was also pregnant, we thought it was reallt entertaining and very funny, however the camera angle and mise en scene was all very wrong on adobe premire so we thought we should delete it as we wanted it to be as proffessional as possible.
Day 4- We got all of our interviews together and as we had dicided to ask them the same/similar questions, and we cut of questions and small scenes that did not fit in and would also shorten the opening down, we had two interviews One with a married couple and another with a lesbian couple, we thought this was really unsual and quirky, it all flowed well and was really funny. We cut all the interviews down so that no questions were heard being asked, and so that everything was cut down to be proffesional as it could be, some questions from next questions did not flow properly and the shot angle was a different angle due to cutting the questions being asked out, so we added a cross dissolve between some clips which made it look reallt proffesional.
Day 5- We got archive footage and then added it to our beginning opening, we got clips from skins, eastenders, coronation street and popular programmes and we chose scenes of couples kissing and in love. We then placed this into the beginning of our opening which made it fun, sexy and entertaining.
Day 6- We then put all our vox pops together, and cut them all down, so all was seen was head and shoulders, so we cut the big backgrounds and distracting pieces out-this was how the proffesionals do it. We then put them in an order of how we wanted them to be placed together-we added the vox pops so that it makes our documentary more entertaining and funny to watch.
Day 7- We thought that as our documentary interviews went on for a long time, we should add some cut a ways over the top to make it more interesting-Throughout the lesbian interview we added small clips of them relating to what they were saying on screen of them hugging, kissing and having fun making it look more entertaining. Throughout the older married couple we added cut a ways of photos from when they were younger-showing about their life and about how happy they were and how happy they are now, giving a happy emotion across to the audience.
Day 8- We did all our graphics and animations, we tryed all sorts such as lips kissing the screen which we thought was really good and worked well, which looked fun, sexy text, we made all of our text the same colour and size so that it all fitted well and looked simple and didn't take any of the focus of our visuals but the text still matched them.
