A-level production!

 Hello blog! Welcome to the second post of the week which is going to be reflecting the production process for my portfolio project, which is a documentary about Latin American culture and how it influences society and creates unity within society.  In this post I’m going to be talking about an additional introduction shot that I decided to include within my documentary. In my other post, I talked about how I wanted to include a globe for my introduction, but I also decided to give myself the option of using the map that I have within my living room and see which one would work better and which one looks more professional and more formal.

 

My original idea for this shot for my introduction was to get a red thumbtack and place it on where I wanted to specify in Latin America specifically. Then, I realized that I wanted to show the entirety of Latin America and the entirety of the globe and how I’m focusing on one specific niche which is Latin America. Since this is my first time using a professional camera for this portfolio project, I was playing around with the lighting and how I wanted to look on camera.  For example, I opened my front door which produces the most sunlight in my house and the back doors to see how the lighting would look, and it ended up being too bright which would later affect the saturation and editing.  

 

Additionally, I also decided to play around with some composition techniques such as pan and tilts to see how I wanted to angle it. I ended up deciding on a pan of the map.  In the first post I was talking about the globe as previously mentioned and now I’m focusing on the map for this post. I might decide to include both of those shots within my documentary or choose just one.