The cut aways (shoot log, edit log)

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The shoot log 

1) Date/programme title/location:

 The cut aways were filmed on write the date and locations 

2) Role:

That day I was responsible for the camera and filming the footage.  

3) Crew & their roles: 

With me there was another person who helped me with carring the equipment. 

4) Key storylines captured & characters:

We started next to the Cafe Britannia and we made our way down, throuht the 

riverside, next to the trainstation and finally the city centre. We wanted to film very

characteristic places for Norwich, which later could also been used as photographs

for our title sequence. (We had to use the screenshots of our footage, because the 

photo camera was already booked by another team).

5) How has this affected the overall direction of the 

content?

This shoot did not influence the direction of the content in any way, because we

already knew what we needed. It was only needed to fill the space between the

interviews footage. Nothing on the way changed the way we wanted to presented 

the documentary. It was siple filling gaps.

Therefore, beside the recognasible locations, I have recoded more of the footage 

that captured interesting things I saw on my way. That was going to be used for the 

short cut that N4J wanted us to produce apart from the Mini Documentary

itself. 

6) What do we need to capture at the next shoot?

 N/A

7) How well did the shoot go?

I believe that the shot went very well. I filmed enough of the footage to cover the

whole documentary so there was no need to film any more of the cut aways. 

All of the cutaways were kept in rather cold/blue tone, which helped with staying 

consistent. We managed to record all of the locations that we have planned to film

and all of the separetly filmed footage was good to use.

8) How could we improve?  

I believe that in the future there could be more than just one camera and so we
could film more footage in shorter amout of time. 
Also some of the shots were quite shaky (those where I could not use the tripod).
In the future I would like to work on my handheld skills. Having the shot as still as 
possible would be more pleasent to watch.

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The edit log 

  

1.Date/programme title/location

The cutaways write the date and locations  

2.Description of material to be edited and what 

tone/audience trying to reach 
The material to edit were the cut aways filmed around the norwich capturing

strangers and recognasible locations in Norwich. They were kept in cold/bluish

tone, which made all of them consistant with the other footage. It was going mostly 

to be used in the short edit, so I wanted the shots to show Norwich and people 

arund; especally young people. I wanted some of the shots represent what has

been said in one of the interviews that I was going to use as the voice over. 

The shots and decisions based on what I was about to film were kept in this
creative approach that we had since the begining of the project. It was meant to look
interesting for both young people and local employers. The cold tone and the 
representation of the city were aimed at the emplyers. The voice over was aimed at
both employers and young people. 
To make the video pleasent to watch also for the young people I used different
editing techniques, which will be described in the next question. 

3.Key edit decisions taken within that time frame 

and a discussion of their creative impact 
There was not many thing that needed to be really thought about. What I did was cut off   the parts of the cut aways that were no good for the use and keep the ones that look nice. When I kept all the good parts, that was the time where I used some of the footage and I editied it creativly using lots of the tools from the premere pro. For example : https://minidocumentary012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/coloring-and-sound-effect-on-premeiere.html (this post explains what I did with some of the cutaways). 

  4. Key techniques/tools used. What are they and 

how do they function?

Most of the tools that I used where the "cut" tool to get rid of the parts of the footage

that I did not want to use. For the more creative part of the editing I used tools such 

as the speed tool or the coloring tool which are explained in this post: 

https://minidocumentary012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/coloring-and-sound-effect-on-

premeiere.html

I also used the scale and movement tool to move the image and change its size for 

glitch effect. Again it has been already explained in the post: https://minidocumenta

ry012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/coloring-and-sound-effect-on-premeiere.html

Along with changing the speed of some of the shots I also leyered different clips

on top of each otehr with different speeds and opasities, just to make the cut away

look more interesting, creative and modern. 

5.Areas to improve on for following edit
I believe that I could learn about more interesting techniques in which I could edit 
the cut aways. I could use this knowladge to create really interesting and unique 
visual effects. Mybe next time I could use after effects and add some of the 
projects done on there. For example drawings on to of the footage or revealing 
image like it was done for our title sequence. It all goes down to more of the 
creative experimentation.