Road to Damascus

I have found this source on the internet using google image but it is kind of iconographic based on what my film is about potentailly what would be on a DVD cover.......

Start of Evaluation

Evaluation

I have now started to think about how I am going to present my evaluation and I think that a making of documentary would be quite good I could potentially include some interviews of the actors and then I would have the directors commentary and then I would also have to add in to the film shots and different scenes that were used in the film.

Another potential idea would be to have a voice over or director’s commentary over the film this would have to be quite brief though because of the fact that the film is not that long so that might not be the best but it is a potential idea.

Difficulties

Difficulties

Some of the difficulties that occurred during the filming of the project I struggled with the timing of the project I had a lot of trouble trying to get the filming done in the time that I wanted so that I could edit it in time. There were also several issues with weather as the initial shoot was supposed to be done in winter and there was snow on the ground I was worried about whether to get all my filming done in case I couldn’t re-film in the snow but then there was snow again when I reshot some footage in march.

Changes in Film

Since I started my project I have made some changes. I focused on documentaries like Supersize Me and The Secrets of Scientology and these really helped me to realise that the most effective thing would be to have a split screen to show the credits and then have an interview with a montage sequence. The split screen has news footage which helps to explain the situation that the film was based on. The idea of having the titles at the beginning of the film also helps to show that the film is based on a situation. Having the footage of the main character lying in a hostage style situation shows a similarity between The Secrets of Scientology which held images of the man in the past whereas for my film the use of black and white is what shows the past and the colour image shows the present situation. What the two colours and the use of a type of flash back shows the idea that the film is not real it shows the idea of the story of the being a story and not a real thing.

As I was looking over my research I realized that I had written about wanting to use a voice over in a part of my documentary. And instead of a voice over I used a part of a news report that introduces the film company that will make my film and then I added the interview scene of my main character and while he was talking there was a cut to different shots to have a kind of montage sequence which is a common feature of documentaries.

Another Rough Edit

What I am up to ...

So what I am hoping to do this week is to clean up the editing so that the project looks better I am hopfully going make the scene transitions smoother with cuts and fades in the right place so that the project looks more professional and so that it is a more effective and believable story.

Rough Edit

This is an example of a rough edit that I have made.