PLAN

It is good to have a timeline for my documentary, because whenever i set deadlines for myself, i try at least to meet them and finish my stuff on time. I still have some problems with time management etc, and the fact that i wont just be sitting in my room, working on it, but also going out to Phoenix and taking footage there, means that i have to plan my weekends in advance. I have to put some buffer time in as well, because it might happen that i dont have the driver for a weekend and therefore no possability to get to Phoenix or that im simply busy with other work.

CREATE

One big change in my plan happened when Mr. Holmes told us that the documentary only has to be 5 minutes long, instead of 15. That was February, the 25th, after i had started my filming. I already had some footage of me trying on shoes etc, and the cutback of the required time that my documentary has to be did not change that much, except that i totally forgot about my first second-by-second plan.
Instead, i just took the footage and put it all together in a way that i liked and that made sense to me.

INVESTIGATION

This unit was about creating a documentary to inform, persuade or entertain people and at the end, evaluating it by asking other people questions about it.

This was my first brainstorming, and i tried to connect all the different conventions, styles, genres of documentary film making with my topic. I was pretty sure that my documentary should be interactive, because i wanted to take some footage myself, and actually BE in the documentary. Then, i chose my topic: Shoes, because it is something i really like and i have some kind of personal connection to. The final product was supposed to be entertaining people, but not neccessarily informing or persuading.

CREATE

Laura and I worked on her MacBook in class and started putting together all the clips that i had filmed. Therefore, we had to continue on her Mac until we were pretty much done, because i don't have a Mac and we worked on iMovie. We plan on meeting on the weekend (10th of March) and do the rest of the filming and then put together all the clips on her Mac.

What we actually did was that we started working parallell on two computers. She was working with iMovie whereas i did the missing research and downloaded Clips from Cinderella.

Once the video was exported, i put it on my harddrive and worked some more at home. I finished it and put background music etc. Basically i did the final touch-up.

CREATE

Laura got involved in my documentary when i was in the process of actually creating it. She did some internet research and found clips on youtube that i used in my documentary, such as the interview with Christian Louboutin. I went to Phoenix Mall again with her, to finish my filming on March 10th. We interviewed some people, and asked them how many shops they think there are in phoenix mall to use the answer as a response to "How many pairs of shoes do you have?". So we basically manipulated people into saying what we wanted them to say: big numbers.

Also, she did some internet research on shoes, because we needed some interviews with experts, because we were not allowed to film in the shops, which is what i actually planned to do.

we watched these videos on youtube and chose 2 of them:

https://gmx.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnNb7tXLkhxg%26feature%3Dfvsr&lang=en FOR ME THIS IS THE BEST
https://gmx.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dqf5mJ7aR2t8%26feature%3Dfvsr&lang=en
https://gmx.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6J7msA3cUXE&lang=en
https://gmx.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DitrCQT8oEw8&lang=en
https://gmx.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%3Dendscreen%26v%3D0OTehKIxM4Y%26NR%3D1&lang=en
https://gmx.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%3Dendscreen%26NR%3D1%26v%3DPjYk9ZxmGRo&lang=en

EVALUTATION

-good points -- Please list some points you liked about the documentary.
-bad points -- Please list some points you didn't like about the documentary.
-whole point of the documentary --Did you understand what you should learn? Why or why not?
-improvement -- Please list things i could improve in terms of educational purposes, understanding etc.