Documentary

After the newspaper advertisement, we began our documentary. We used Adobe Premiere to create our piece to make it look professional. We started by cutting the most important clips out of each interview and choosing the best bits from the protest.
Here are a few print screens of the progress we made...




We needed to add background music throughout most of our documentary. We chose songs which would be appropriate to our target audience and which fit the genre of the documentary. Here are the songs we chose...

We began by dragging the interviews (principal and students) roughly onto the timeline. We then slotted clips of the presenter around them. We decided the interviews would go in the middle of the documentary extract as younger audiences often find talking heads very boring so we needed to ensure we had a lively introduction and a lively ending to keep the audience watching. In order to avoid boring talking heads, we varied the shots and made quick cuts between clips. Also, over the principal interview, we added a few quirky shots for the audience to keep interested. For the student interviews, we had the questions printed on screen for the viewers to read whereas we chose not to use any questions for the principal interview.
Then, we created the very start of the documentary which includes a short channel 4 title sequence to stick to the genre. We introduced the documentary and then kicked in with quick shots of whats about to follow.
We continued editing in this way, dragging the main clips down, then fitting clips of the presenter around them.
Finally, we added name tags to each person on the documentary to ensure it looked professional.
Here is the final piece...