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4/5/2017 0 Comments The process of the documentaryIntro/beginning:We wanted to have an introduction to our documentary including a series of clips of both archive footage and our own from the locations we visited, we also wanted to have a title that stood out and had an interesting transition in. We found an old Barbara Woodhouse documentary about dogs and used some of the clips in our intro and throughout the documentary. We decided to use the transition 'Prism' from iMovie on the entrance of the title, this was simple yet interesting and we think it relates to the documentary topic because it appears as bars (like a kennel) creating a word, which we like a lot. We used the same font at the end of the documentary stating 'End of Part 1', by using the prism transition we have related the beginning and the end of the documentary together. The music we aimed to find we wanted to be subtle yet effective when put with the footage, we both liked the thought of a piano playing along with the interview audio and clips of the interviews and additional clips. We wanted the atmosphere of the documentary to be emotive to the audience, I found a track called Petrichor by Keaton Henson which gave the right emotions for our documentary. However, once nearing the end of the editing process we realised the documentary seemed too much like a promotional video by having the same track the whole way through, so we searched for another track and we found To Build A Home by The Cinematic Orchestra, we used the instrumental version of this song for the introduction of our documentary which gave a good effect which we then faded into Petrichor when the title appears, however, this song is a bit too well known to play multiple times throughout the documentary, so we have decided to remove it completely, because if it is played right at the beginning it might give the wrong impression to audiences. As we were back to one track throughout the documentary we needed another track to have somewhere in the documentary, we then listened to more compositions by Keaton Henson and found Emissary which is also piano and gives a lower emotion, we are going to try and put each piece by Henson into our documentary carefully to match what the interviewees are talking about, so when they talk about quite sad things, we will use Emissary, when they start to talk about things more peppy, we will use Petrichor. We used a specific editing technique throughout the documentary, we used this technique because we had seen it in most of the documentaries we had watched. It's using the audio of the interview over other clips we add in, we put them in to be relevant to what the person is saying, e.g. when Sarah talks about feeding the dogs correctly we have inserted archive footage of dogs eating, or when Liza talks about older dogs or puppies, we inserted clips of those specific ages of dogs. This technique is effective because it keeps the audience interested, as if it was just the interviewee, the viewer would lose interest and get bored, but if different clip pop up it gives them something to look at and also can help them understand because the clips will be relevant to what they are talking about. The last clip of our whole documentary that we edited in is the ident from ITV themselves, they make multiple different ones to have at the end of shows or sometimes between adverts, these are usually silent. There are two that we found from ITV, rather than ITV 2 etc., one has a chihuahua shaking off water and then being dried whilst the ITV logo appears, the other is of a pug being washed in a sink looking at the camera, we preferred the pug as the other was quite dark and the pug ident was well lit. This is our first draft of the documentary. All editing was done on iMovie.
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