Documentary Planning

Budget
We had a very little budget to film this documentary as the equipment was already supplied to us by the college and transportation was free thanks to our oyster cards. Also the college has mac books for us to the editing so no need to buy any editing software.i chose copyright free music so i did not have to pay for any licensing fees.

Time
To plan the time schedule for the documentary i wrote a timetable to say what days i had filming and what days i had to write the assessments and edit. this all went to key as i stuck to the timetable. If i had not of spent my time according to the timetable i would of been behind schedule and in turn be late.

Personnel
I had to ask david if i can use his classroom to film a few different interviews. I did not need to ask any other people to film in the other locations as i shot in public open spaces. However i had to be quiet in the hallway as classes were going on.

Facilities
I did not need any facilities as everything was provided by the college as i filmed here, also i had little budget to spend on facilities itself.

Location
I chose the college to film as it was close to the people i had to interview and all the facilities were provided by the college. Another reason why i chose to film at the college was because there is a green screen in which i thought i could use, but in the end i decided not to use it as it would not look ascetically appealing.

Copyright
As i did not use any stock video footage of smoking so i did not break any copyright laws, however i did use a picture which did have copyright so i had to ask for permission from the owner. The music that i chose was public domain from youtube so anybody could use it.

Clearances
Clearances that i faced were that i had to ask people if they wanted to be filmed for the documentary and be asked a few question. Also i asked people in the background of the shot as one of the deleted interviews was in the smoking shelter in the college, nobody minded so i filmed an interview.

Codes of practise
I did not break any codes of practise in my documentary as i did not have any sexual or violent content in the documentary. I asked some of my peers that had watched the documentary and none of them say that it was offensive, otherwise i would have wanted to re film it.


(Risk Assessment in word document)

Production Diary

2nd December - Filming James in the seated area in the courtyard

3rd December - Filming Patrick in David's classroom

9th December - Filming David in his classroom

10th December - Filming Shaun in the sports corridor

16th December - Filmed at the smoking shelter in Coulsdon college

17th December - Filmed another take of James as i did not like the first one

6th - Edited and completed task 4

7th - Edited and completed task 5

Evaluation

Client Feedback
Client feedback liked the use of camera and lighting as i had chosen open lit areas with little noise from the environment however the client said i could have interview people from different areas as it might just give one opinion on the situation maybe people from the country.

Peer Feedback
Peer Feedback that i received was that some of the cuts were a bit too fast and that it took the emersion away from the documentary. Also i was told that i could of put title cards of the person's name whilst i was interviewed them, i might go back and change them in Imovie. James said i should have had women in the documentary as i only interview men, this would of given me a wider demographic rather than one opinion.

Audience Feedback
Audience Feedback was that i should of put more photos or videos of people smoking to add more depth into the documentary and to get my point across and to pad out the documentary. More feedback suggested that i should i used a wider age demographic rather than just teenagers as they might have a biased view all being the same age.

Constraints
Constraints that i experienced whilst filming where that we could not film outside on the 16th of December as there was a heavy down pour and would of damaged the equipment that was used the only solution to get around this was to film the outside interviews another day when the rain had passed. However next week the weather was too dull and would of not looked great in my eyes so i decided to scrap that scene and film inside. On the 6th of January whilst out filming the camera's battery died and so we had to come back to college, next time filming i made sure that the battery was fully charged.

Management of the Production
I had a Production diary of my filming so i followed that and knew when i had to film and when i had to edit. I had asked the interviewees the previous day by text when they were free and if i could record them or not this saved time looking for them and asking them on the day.