Audio Visual Production
Documentary Progress

On 20 Nov i learnt that Airon, the Producer, had left the course. (Been kicked off for not enroling). This left us without a Producer and only four group members. The group had many discussions about how to cope and what we should do. We came to a decision on the current and FINAL idea for our documentary project, which was not to be commical, but is more alone the line of what i was wanting to do. So although i was annoyed that Airon had left, i was happy about where the project was heading.

We basically kept the old idea of making a documentary about youth offenders but we now concentrate on one single youth offender who we'll interview. The documentary's working title is 'Street Life - the story of a youth offender'. The 4-minutes-film should start off with some vox pops and people telling their (short) opinion about youth offenders, then it leads over to the title screen.

Now that Airon has left, we seem to be progressing fast with the documentary and i feel that everyone has an equal say in would should be included.

We have already produced a short trailer of that first part of the documentary as seen below. Christian (Editor) has edited the vox pops we did last week and created a rather fitting title screen. The style of the pilot uses scanlines on the vox-pop shots to make it look like its filmed off a TV screen. I think we will use this style for the vox pops in the final edit of the documentary.



After that intro there will we some random street scenes with narration over it telling some statistics and leading over to the actual interview. The interviewee's face will not be shown. We plan to shot that interview with two cameras - one main camera and one camera that works in the hidden-camera style (so filming close-ups of certain details like hands while the interviewee's speaking).
We'll try to include cuts to re-enacted flashbacks into the interview based on what the interviewee says. Those flashbacks will have special effects on them to make them look like a dreamish kind of style. The documentary then will end with a summary and the credits - of course.