Evaluation

By Catrin George-Carey

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My Life As A Dalmatian

In What ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Bill Nichols books Introduction to Documentary (2001)

Poetic-Expository

ObservationalParticipatory

ReflexivePerformative

Performative Documentary

Fictional recreatins

Interviews

Subject matter-myself

Stress subjective experience and emotional response to the world

Are strongly personal, unconventional, perhaps poetic and/or experimental

Docs often link up personal accounts or experiences with larger political or historical realities.

Conventions of a Performative Documentary

Dynamic movement of still pictures

Examples of Performative Documentaries

Looking Back” Chuck McCauley (2011)

Panorama BBC Undercover Care (31-5-11)

Tongues untied (Marlon Riggs) 1989

Octavia Saint Laurent from Paris is Burning Documentary

Are strongly personal, unconventional, perhaps poetic and/or experimental

Convention 1

Clip from another

“Looking Back” Chuck McCauley

(2011)

My Life As A Dalmatian

Include hypothetical enactments of events

Convention 2

Clip from another

My Life As A DalmatianPanorama BBC Undercover Care (31-5-11)

Dynamic movement of still pictures

Tongues untied (Marlon Riggs) 1989 My Life As A Dalmatian

It is conventional in documentaries to use still images and employ a dynamic movement

Convention 3

Stress subjective experience and emotional response to the world

Convention 4

Clip from My Doc

Clip from another

My Life As A DalmatianOctavia Saint Laurent from Paris is Burning Documentary

Filming Interviews

The interview is a common documentary techniques

Conventional interview technique

Real media examples

My Life As A Dalmatian

Sound

A the very beginning of my Documentary there’s a car crash sound, I found the sound in Soundtrack Pro under the Impacts and Crashes section and called ‘Automobile Crash FX 01. You just need to click the speaker to here the sound.

I went on to the internet on a website called ‘www.Jamendo.com’ which is website where your llegal allowed to download music for free. I listened to few and then I found ‘plastic_man’ by ‘wentilators’.

Hear’s the trimed version of ‘Plastic Man’ theres no words but it’s a very up beat tune, which is what I wanted for the ending of my documentary.

How successful is the combination of your main and ancillary texts?

Poster & Documentary

I feel I have created synergistic links between my main task and ancillary texts that combine well together.

My Documentary contains, how sycloigal I was trapped in two minds, one being me and the other with me being a Dalmatian dog.

Poster & Magazine Review

Magazine Review & Documentary

Used some photos from the clip of the film. Added the plot of the Documentary, and even an interview with myself talking in more detail of the car accident.

What have you learned from your audience feed back

I made created two questionnaires, one was to find out how many people know of Documentaries, and the other was about my film it’s self.

QUESTIONNAIRE

ON

DOCUMENTARIES

First Page

QUESTIONNAIRE

ON

MY

DOCUMENTARY

Last Page

QUESTIONNAIRE

ON

MY

DOCUMENTARY

How did you use media technologies in the constructing and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Constructions I Have Used:

Final Cut Pro

Editing software program

Effects

Titles

RenderingEasy to use

I have really have enjoyed using final cut pro through out this year, it has help me to construct my documentary to how it is presented to you now. There’s been a few challenges thought out the editing process, but I have manage to over come them.

Hear I am adding effects

This is how you add effects

This is a clip that I edited in final cut pro (just click on it to play)

InDesign

Poster

Magazine

Columns

Font

Sizes

I really enjoyed leaning how to construct my Magazine article and my Poster using the software Program InDesgin, It was the first time I had every use it, and after a bit I found it very easy to uses. There were many stages that I went through both magazine article and Poster, but Indesgin has help me to presents the constructed poster and magazine article to the way they are now.

Making my Magazine Review, using Indesign.

Making my Poster, using Indesign.

Magazine Article

Poster

Planning

Celtx

Software scripting program

ScheduleScript

FreeScreen Play

I made a short script, because I am making a documentary, there was no need to create at a large script with lots of detail because documentary's are unpredictable. I create the script to help more when it came to editing my documentary.

My Script

FRONT PAGE

FIRST PAGE

LAST PAGE

As well as script making Celtx has also help with scheduling the date on when I would be able to film, again with a documentary you can’t really have a schedule, but I created one anyway just to keep me on track from film to editing.

The Schedules

November

December

Research

YouTube

Videos Clips

Help VideosRe-Search

I used YouTube mostly to re-search films and Documentaries, And then embed that video on to my blog.

This is a Movie PowerPoint, showing the Upload Process with YouTube.

Here’s my Documentary on my blog, and you can see that I have loaded up on to YouTube. ‘My Life As A Dalmatian’

ClipConverter

MP4MP3 Converts Media

QuickEasy to Use

I’ve used ClipConveter as lot over this year, it’s very usefull and very easy to use. I use ClipConveter mostly to convert videos from YouTube, so that I am able to load them up on to my Evaluation.

This is showing that stages, with using ClipConverter.

This is the Video that I converter from YouTube.

Its about how to create titles on final cut pro, as I didn’t know how to. So I found this very help full video to guide me through.

I have learnt so much this year, with web 2.0, planning when I am going to film and creating the narrative of my documentary through editing. I didn’t know how my Performative documentary would turn out, but I am amazed how it has, and I feel I have achieved something through this whole learning processes. I can now take away what I have learnt over these past couple of years and improve them in the future.