Evaluation

I had three ideas at the start of this project, I think I chose the best one although it didn’t turn out quite as I had hoped. My other ideas were about anorexia or drugs. I think they would have been too complicated to do so the asmr one was the simplest not giving myself too much work but I find it so interesting to see peoples reactions and views on it. I think I could have done it on something better if I had thought more but these wer the ideas I fisrt thought of and time is very well needed when doing a project. I encountered some problems while coming up with my ideas as I didn’t quite know what to do and I was also thinking about ideas for the radio drama and website, I kept getting very cionfused what I was thinking about doing for what. I think I had enough time to do this but it would have been easier and a lot faster if I only had one project. I think my idea was pretty good as it’s such an interesting controversial topic. I think it worked really well and my interviews were very interesting. When I did my reserch and looked over my idea I hadnt changed much just how I was going to set it out. I don’t think my idea developed so much as it is quite simple. Overall I think I could have had a better idea if I really set my mind to it but I was confused between projects so I chose the best of the ideas I thought of.  

My reserch was pretty good for this project, I looked in to modes of documentaries like participatory and the differnces between the different modes for example the different between a particpatory documentary and expository doumentaries is that particpatory has the film maker in it being very present and particpating in what they are doing the doumentary on where as expository documentaries are ones with a voice of god and it aims to inform people whereas on the other one it’s normally only showing you one point of view. When looking in to documentaries I compared two different documentaries and did other primary and secondary research including the essay and this really helped me to see the different sides of documentaries and what to do for my video to be good and perfesstional. I think if I were to improve my reserch I could have looked further in to things, I had plans to look at things in more detail and find more documetaries to help me form mine but unfortunatly I ran out of time, I should have been better with my time keeping but unfortunatly I wasn’t. I used my interviews as a type of reserch and I learnt a lot in them, as asmr has so many different sides theres always more to learn so I had conversations with people and asked them questions so I could learn more, I learnt about peoples reactions to it and how it makes them feel, I learnt about what asmr triggers sets people off and what ones don’t. It was all very interesting reserch and I enjoyed doing it.  

When planning for my filming I planned where I would film, how it would be lit and set up and I stuck to that then I decided how many people to ask and how to interview them. I made a recce form for the studio and a risk assessment, I also did an audio visual script for when im editing to make it easier on me and so I remebr what I was planning to do. I didn’t do a storybored as  I didn’t see a point, I had an audio visual and it was quite short so I belive they could be the same thing, if I was making a film I would do a story bored but this was mostly interviews and some broll. If I had done this differently I would have planned a lot quicker, done all of the paperwork fast so I wasn’t stressing over them later on. I think after looking over all my footage I did well choosing where to do the interviews but I could have chosen a better place to do the b roll. I feel like I followed heath and safety rules very well. When planning my interviews I planned the camera angles and how I would set up the camera, for this I chose that I would use the rule of thirds and split the screen in to three. The first third would be empty and the last two show the person being interviewed, I also decided to have them all looking to the left of the camera and not facing in to it. I feel like my time management on planning didn’t go very well and I had to rush in the end as I thought I had written load but I was thinking of a different project so I had to quickly do it all at them end. I made my production schedule in a notebook and I mostly stuck to it but next time I will have to do a lot better.  

I didn’t end up with what I wanted at all, I feel like it could have been way better but I got very stressed and confused so I didn’t know what to do and now im not happy with this end result at all. When filming I think I filmed it all very effiently doing it all in one day and having all my audio done on that day aswell but editing I didn’t start for a few days as I was concetraing on other things. Comparing this to my proposal it’s very simmlar to what I wanted but I lot worse quality. I had a lot of problems when making this as I had to borrow three peoples sd cards, this was only because my 32gb has broken and my 64gb is too much for the cameras and everyone I borrowed sd cards of also needed to use them, it was a lot of stress and I will try to do better next time. I think the editing went well although it took a lot of time, bause of my style of interviewing I had over 20 mins of each interview and I only needed a few minuets, this was when I decided to only have two interviews, I then added my b roll but I feel like it’s mostly out of focus, when editing it in I picked two sections that looked in focus as my footage was mostly out of focus then I slowed one down so it fit with my audio that was to be played with it. I think the editing went well but I wish I could have spent more time on it and made it massivly better, next time im going to spend more time editng and concentrating on it. I think overall I met most of the aims I set and I think I stuck to my original idea although I don’t like my final product. I should have been better with my time and will stick to this in my next project.  although my dyspraxia effects my ability to concentrate and organise things well I think I did very well to concentrate on this project.