Level 3 Media Year 2

Empire Coming to the conclusion that I am happy with how my script looks, but am continuing to make changes, I began editing my first venue section after my introduction - The Empire Theatre, Sunderland. Having previously had access to film at the venue back in January, I already had my own footage, and from here had to collect more - From old photographs of the venue itself, images of stars who have performed there, and even interviews sourced from online.     For a first creation I am happy with the outcome, but I will continue to develop the clip to ensure I can improve it for the final piece. I decided to open up the Empire section with footage from Sunderland on Film , which shows the building in what I assume is the 1950s with a crowd of people outside, which I felt was a nice opening since it is the only older piece of footage I can find of the venue - Since due to the time, there wouldn't be a lot of footage to look back on, perhaps just photographs. Afterwards ...

First Draft Upon creating the first draft for my documentary, already there are a lot of things I know I need to improve on. I tried to create a script where everything would flow nicely, therefore when talking about Northern venues I tried to follow each section on in the best possible way, in that they would somehow link. Following this, I made sure to do my research to ensure everything I was saying was accurate - Being a Expository documentary, all of the information needs to be correct since the aim of my final piece is to inform my audience about our history in terms of venues and live acts who have performed here.  Under each section I have worked out the duration of how long it would take me to say, this way I was able to collect the images I have found and ensure there is enough footage to talk over - With the venues mentioned being from the 1950s, with one even opening in 1913, there is no video footage, which meant I had to find images from online, allowing me to speak ...

 

  The personnel list only includes my name as I wanted to make this project something I completed purely on my own, allowing me to showcase my skills in different areas. Throughout working on the project, almost everything has gone to plan and I haven't faced any problems in which I couldn't overcome myself - I feel this may have been different if I had included more of my own footage, but due to me choosing a topic in which a lot of my footage would have to be sourced from online, this didn't cause any problems. With my experience from the years I have spent studying Media, I have been able to develop my filming and editing skills, meaning when it came to doing both of these things on my own, everything went to plan and went well. 

  I firstly needed the DSLR camera to film inside of The Empire, and was happy with the footage, but if I were to go back and do something differently I would've taken a tripod to ensure the footage was more steady. I also used the camera and mic to record all of my voiceover's, which I believe went well as the audio came out clear.