Under The Gun Documentary Final Cut
Under The Gun [Short Documentary] from Liam Atkinson on Vimeo.
Evaluation
Under
The Gun is a 5 minute documentary about tattoos and the discrimination that comes
with tattoos. The Documentary is shot well in terms of camera angles and
lighting, edited well with good transitions between interviews and cutaways
with good clear audio. The feedback we received and what I would give for this
documentary would be to add some breathing space between audio to allow the
audience to digest the information as well as create smoother transitions
between audio by not speaking over the interviewee and allowing some space
before and after the interviewee speaks to give room to edit smooth transitions
between audio.
The
process we took to this production was to research what idea we wanted to base
the documentary on. Then we discussed the narrative options we wanted to take
and scouted interviewees that could be in our production. Once we had our
interviewees we planned interviews around the contributor’s schedules and then
I shot the interviews as I was the cinematographer. The footage was then passed
to Natalie that edited the footage with little help from the rest of the group
to create the final cut of our production.
The
issues we faced was simply technical such as; not turning the sound on the
camera for a reference when syncing the non-synced sound, Avid crashing and
not saving half the work Natalie produced twice and issues creating smooth
transitions between audio as we did not leave enough space before and after the
interviewee talking.
My
usual role in a production would be the editor, but for this production I was allocated
the role cinematographer. I feel that this was a good choice for me as it gives
me a break from editing and to try something
I didn't feel was my norm role and practice my skills as a cinematographer. I took on this role with a strong professional idea of what I
wanted to do; I wanted to create shots to professional standard with full
lighting, the correct camera angles and use of tripods and sliders. I wanted to
get a strong mod shot for interviews, tight close ups for cutaways and a smooth
track shot with the use of a slider to give a more artistic and advance look to
the production.
During this production I have learnt how to set the bit
rate/resolution to 1920px x 1080px, 50mbp, 25fps, I also set the shutter speed
to 1/50 as allows the right amount of light into the camera in regards of the
frame rate with is a ratio of 1:2 (this would be 25fps to 1/50).
The group worked equally and fairly throughout the production.
Harry was director, Carly was producer, Natalie was editor and Francesca was
sound recordist/editor. Everyone worked to their best efforts and produced
strong work within their roles. This made the production run smoothly and
effective in reflection of the quality of the documentary. The strengths of the
production is that we worked extremely well together and the documentary had a nice
visual style with the credits and colour correction that gave the documentary
as professional look. The weakness’ of the production was the problems with the
sound and how it does not flow as cleanly as we planned.
