A-level Post production

 

    Hi blog! Welcome to the second to last week of blog posting for my A-level production.  I feel like this school year and my portfolio project went extremely fast and I can't believe it's going to be over next week!  Without further ado, let  jump into today's blog post which I’ll be talking about some roadblocks and changes that I had to make within my production.

     When I initially had my meeting about my documentary, I wanted to include the interviews of my studio director and my Choreographer. I thought this would be a good idea to get their insight within the dance community and considering that they come from Latin culture and base their studio off appreciating culture. Another reason that I thought they would be perfect to interview is that they're great in front of the camera and they have a way of words that make sense and is inspiring.

    So, we planned the specific date that I was going to shoot both interviews. The interviews would only consist of one to two questions and I would be asking their input within the dance community and how it relates to Latin American culture. Ultimately, I was not able to film the day that we had planned because of upcoming dance events and projects that my studio had been planning for a while. I was conflicted when this happened because I really wanted their response. 

So, I came up with a solution.  I had them type up their response over messages and I’m going to use that as a voice over for some of the B roll footage.  I thought this was a creative approach to include their responses as well as create narration to make my documentary more interested and engaging for my audience.

 

Here a screenshot of the response:

You might be wondering, what are you going to do with the additional subjects that you have to film?  Great question, here's my solution!  I decided to film one of my close friends, a dancer at my dance studio. I thought tackling this response would give the audience a varied perspective and add some diversity in age and the type of people I was interviewing.