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Production Diary

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 Logistical detail Once I got permissions from the owners of the property, I decided to started to get some initial footage after i planned out the documentary. I started off with some initial raw footage that i may or may not use. I tested out getting my footage from a variety of different camera angles so i can sync them together. This is so when my audiuence watches my documentary, that they see it from different angles and perspective. I do this as i think it will make the documentary more entertaining as they see the footage from up close, far away, focused on the screen, over the shoulder. For the plan as seen in the pre production, I decided to split my documentary up into different chapters focusing on different eras in videogames.  So with my plan i want to focus on making different chapters on different days. So say on the first day of filming, I will film the intro, the next day i might film the first chapter, the next day the second chapter and so on. Even tho each...

Pre Production- Creative Elements

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  The Beginning Before I started filming My Documentary, I wanted to create a general plan of what i was going to create. This is so i wasn't going into the production process headfirst otherwise the documentary would be unorganised. This is because it wouldn't follow a general flow with no beginning middle or end and i wouldn't know what i would include and therefore it wouldn't be entertaining and wouldn't tell a clear message. In order to prevent those things and help it entertain my audience of young adults aged 16-24 years old, i wanted to create a plan. What things i would include with the documentary, such as the codes and conventions, shot types, camera angles, people I'm including, what I'm talking about, how long each section will be, the overall message ect. To start off with I create some notes to brainstorm m general ideas on paper so i could start to structure a chronological plan of what order i would show things in the documentary. I will the...