Post production techniques

This is the opening shot of post production and in this shot I added the sound of the train as it gave me options of what mood to open to as I chose a loud, suden train sound it gave the opening to the documentary an edgy and dangerous feel to it.

This is the start of a voice over as it helps the audience gets an idea of what they are watching along with the voice over there is background music to help set the mood for the film.

At this part of my documentary sequence the interview begins with the name of the interviewee popping up at the bottom so the audience know who's talking. I got his name to fade it and fade which adds to the ghostly feel of the sequence along side the sound effect underneath the interview speech. The sound effects is a spooky exhaling effect and adds thriller theme to the documentary. As well as the cut aways  of the police newspaper at the end of the shot, the cut aways was place their specifically so that you cant't see the jump cut between shots and looks like the interview is made up of one shot. Also it helps the audience to get more of an idea of what Peter is talking about and see visually what he is talking about, this give it a brilliant effect for the audience.


Here are some examples of post production techniques:
  
This is a shot of my editing in progress, as you can see there is alot of clips either put randomly or clumps together, these are the cut away that  I used, by looking at this you can see how much detailed editing it takes and how much time it take to make it look how you want it, there are alot of differet eliments involved.

Here is a shot of how I have set the footage films in promier pro, I am name the shots so it is easier to find when I need them.

 

 I have a seperate file for the sounds that I used in the fillm

 
 As you can see I used many different sounds to create my docuementary, I used this many to help create emotion and genre within the film.

 This is a screenshot of how I arranged the sound in the editing process, I also specicically editing the sound to fade in, fade out and to be adjusted.

Here is an example of my editing desicion, these are two shots that are very similar to where they are filmed.

The shot below is from a pedestrians point of view and is much lower angle then from the other shot. This shots lighting is also dimmer and just generally a dark image so I decided to use the other shot of the river. As it is much brighter and warmer to view, is a higher angle so you see more scenary. The shot its self is actually a paning shot of the river unlike the one below.

 

This is the shot I decided to use in the documentary. You can see just my having the images to gether that the one below is a more porfessional and styled choice. It also makes the view feel more of a spectator which is a good start to a and this documentary.

Set design

Treatment

Research into age rating from the BBFC

The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984. The British Board of Film Censors was set up in 1912 by the film industry as an independent body to bring a degree of uniformity to the classification of film nationally. 
The BBFC is a not for profit organisation, and its fees are adjusted only to cover its costs. In order to preserve its independence, the BBFC never receives subsidies from either the film industry or the government. Its income is solely from the fees it charges for its services, calculated by measuring the running time of films or DVDs submitted for classification. The BBFC consults the Department of Culture, Media and Sport before making any changes to its fees.

2) Show your understanding of the age rating and certificates that the BBFC use.

Each film that gets released has undergone a process through the BBFC to decide the age rated certificate for the film. This certificate is based on the explicit scenes and information that are in the films for example if a film has a lot of nudity with in it then the film will have a higher age rating to protect young children being exposed to graphical content that they should yet be viewing. This also accounts for other material in films such as blood, gore, voilence, drug abuse, sexual nature, swearing (violent language) and other materials that fall under this category. 

Examiners look at issues such as discrimination, drugs, horror, imitable behaviour, language, nudity, sex, sexual violence, theme and violence when making decisions. They also consider context, the tone and impact of a work (how it makes the audience feel) and even the release format (for example, as DVDs, Blu-rays and videos for download are watched in the home, there is a higher risk of under-age viewing).

3) What legal backing does the BBFC certification have?

The BBFC is an independent body which was originally established by the film industry in 1912. Local Authorities were made responsible for what was shown in cinemas and from early on accepted the decisions of the BBFC. There are obvious benefits to both Local Authorities and the film industry in having a central but independent body bring consistency to the age rating process and accept responsibility for decisions.

Local Authorities remain legally responsible for what is shown in cinemas under the Licensing Act 2003 and can still overrule the decisions of the BBFC. This does not happen very often. Local Authorities add an important element of local democracy into the classification process.

The BBFC have 7 different age rating for various reason in film. The age rating they set are U, PG, 12, 12A, 15, 18, R18 they rating are guidelines for the target audience of the film so that  the audience have are reference of what the film is about and a reference for the recommended age of the film. The films get given age ratings depending on the content of the film, for example if a film had guns, violence and sex scenes the film will more likely get an age rating of 18 when if the film had none of those in and has fairies and pixies for example the film with be a U because the film is more child friendly. If a film has a higher age rating then the target audience is for a much more mature audience and no kids will legally be able to watch the film. 

For an example in my short documentary that will be considered as a 15 or an 18 due to the graphical content of Catherine Eddowes.

Script and mind map

The white chapel murder script from Luke Bennett

Risk assessment

Timeline layout progress

Planning

Shooting Schedule ***8

Documentary layout - Shots

First shots:

• Ely Cathedral 
• Fens 
• Casual music
• Shots of cathedral, Ely
• shots of house 
• shot of Mum pulling up in the car 
• Wallpaper shot - Mum walking down the river taking dog for a walk. 

Not much scripted:

"Hello Luke, you alright?"

"yeah just doing a short film on our ancestries and if I can find any new stuff out that we don't already know about"

"Yeah okay, well we can go over to your Granddad's as he has a map of the family tree and we can go from there?"

"Yeah that's go"

• Shots of Mum and Granddad discussing information that Granddad has found.
• Shots going to London
• Meeting the tour guide 

• Videos and images of the sites - "Catherine Eddowes Grave City of London Cemetery, in an unmarked (public) grave 49336, square 318" 

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Recce report

1. Ely, Cambridgeshire, Peter Eddowes house. 

Go there in the after noon so that Peter isn't busy at the time so not morning or evening time. Going to be filmed inside in the conservatory so the lighting will be fine and will not need and lighting props

• scene direction 
• Camera direction 
• Questions 
• Voice Overs 
• Footage discription 
• Pace
• Location
• Key story Element 
• Research facts and figurs 
• Graphics and other information 

            2. Second location is down in London at the cemetery of where her memorial grave was placed.

We would have to get  a train down there so had to check when the train times are running there and back, if we had gone through with this shoot then would of pre booked tickets to make sure that we was organised and on time.

This shot was not actually used in the filming of the documentary, was just a planned footage that never went forward as we felt we didn't need it but was replaced by a shot next to lake.  

http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/ELY/STP/today/1300/dep/today/1500/dep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oBXhy7d13s
Jack the Ripper Private tour http://www.jack-the-ripper-walks.com/private-tours.htm?gclid=CjwKEAjw-o6hBRDOmsPSjqakuzYSJADR2V3SS9HjO8wod-uQL0zSmQsxXwO3R0KNiHqF1Vcq3zB8whoCDSrw_wcB












Sounds: http://www.freesound.org/search/?g=1&f=&q=girl+screaming&s=duration+asc&advanced=0&page=3#sound

1. This was an unplanned shot, took Peter for a second interview but wanted to do it walking so we went for a walk and ended up at a lake that was brilliant for the final shoot of the documentary.

Narrative structure

The difference between Narrative and story is that a Narrative is not just an unresolved story but a system of stories, some resolved and some not.

In narratives you have the three act structure which is;

Act 1: Set up

Act 2: Confrontation

Act 3: Resolution






In Hollywood they still tend to follow the 3 act structure but are then divided up into 6 individual sections of narrative development.

1. Exposition 
2. Conflicts defined and developed 
3. Potential success and failures 
4. Apparent disasters 
5. Rapid turn of events 
6. Climax ad conclusion

Linear and non-linear story structure are quite different
from each other, linear story structure act like a straight
line in the sense of the film starting at the beginning of
film and ending at the end of the story. Make more sense
when you know what non-linear structure is which is
when their are different parts of the start shown at different
times, for example Pulp fiction start with the ending when you meet two characters that are about the rob the restaurant then it switches to two other characters are collecting a case from someone which you then learn that, that scene happened in the morning of the restaurant robbery. So that is basically what non linear is, is when you don't have to follow the natural event in the same order that they happen.


These are typical diagrams of a typical linear Hollywood narrative structure.  

Documentary idea - Jack the ripper

• White chapel, London 1888 ( White Chapel murderer) 
• 11 Brutal kiling up to 1891

Victims - 31stAugust>November 9th 

1. Mary Ann  Nicholes
2. Annie Chapmen
3. Elizibeth Stride
4. Cathrine Eddows
5. Mary Jane Kelly

Thought to be the most brutal killings and all are liked. 

Documentary idea - Missing Land Lady

• Royal standard land lady 
• 37 years of age 
• Last seen 28 December 1997 leaving the Royal standard pub at 1 in the morning.
• Left after an argument
• Garden was excavated by diggers and a map of London underground was found at her address with a circle around Hounslow tube station.

• Suffered from anxiety attacks.
• minimum clothes were packed and passport was address.
• History of disappearing.
• Left Pub to start her own catering business but come back over christmas to help her partner Brian McDermott as it was busy that time of year. 

• Brian McDermott did not report her missing for 5 days because of her history.
• White Volvo was spotted in the same area about the same time. 
• Tractor seen ploughing over night in a field in Wilburton. 
• No Suicide as 9k cheque arrive at her address to set up her catering company.
• Her bank accounts have yet been untouched.  

• 70 year old Pensioner arrested.
• Let out on bail to return to park side October 2nd.

Documentary idea, references

http://www.ely-news.co.uk/MISSING-LANDLADY-Ely-garden-police-excavated/story-22896340-detail/story.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-29043818

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/BREAKING-Man-70-arrested-suspicion-murdering/story-22863406-detail/story.html

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/man_bailed_over_1997_disappearance_of_ely_pub_landlady_debbie_steel_1_3755966

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Longfields-garden-excavated-missing-Deborah-Steel/story-22889236-detail/story.html

http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/news/bail_for_man_70_arrested_on_suspicion_of_murdering_ely_landlady_1_3755442

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgnhSdZSYE - Louis Theroux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAsZwvjUZBQ

Featured documentary; License to kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJfoyxlebco

BBC Documentary

Producer: Sophie Morgan

Story:
The story is about younger drivers, how they manage their speed and obey the rule of the road. Also include interviews with car crash victims, pictures and videos of damaged cars.

Agency: Many different agency, many different interviews and many different pieces of raw footage.

Narrative:
The producer of the documentary is by a car crash victim, Sophie Morgan. This is obviously her reason for creating the documentary after loosing her legs

in an accident of her own fault. She investigates into the car and need for speed culture in many different aspect.

Pitch Ideas

Place

• Ely , Cambridge, Amsterdam

1. Ely - Murder case 
2. 
   

Issue

• Long Road smoking area

Something that you are interested in

• Films, technology, Bikes

Story from your local new paper

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/BREAKING-Man-70-arrested-suspicion-murdering/story-22863406-detail/story.html

Auto biological

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJfoyxlebco

Person you know 

• Family or friends