Filming & Editing Update (27th November)

Filming

We plan to film the remaining shots of the school visit tomorrow (Friday 28th November) and if the weather is okay we will also be filming scenes 5 & 6.

Editing

Fortunately I have been given a laptop on loan so that we can continue to edit our production. Yesterday we were able to edit together everything we have so far and came up with a structure. Where the footage is missing due to not having filmed it yet, there will be a blank screen with the scene name written on it. We wanted to do this because it would help us to keep track of what we have got left to film and also because psychologically it now feels like we are closer to a final product.

Here is the structural edit of our production as it stands so far:

Production Schedule - REVISIT

Although we have not been able to stick to the deadlines we set for ourselves due to technical difficulties regarding my laptop, we are now back on track with a loan laptop and are planning on working extra hard and putting in additional time in order to make our documentary the very best it can be.

To do this, we have constructed a production schedule outlining our goals for the next two weeks until our final cut deadline:

Friday 28th November - We will be filming the missing shots from the school visit during this filming session and also plan on filming scenes 5 & 6 if the weather is okay. We will be editing whatever we film during this session on the friday also.

 Monday 1st December - We plan on filming the scene in the town where Alex is swarmed with fans during this session. Also if the weather does not allow for filming scenes 5 & 6 on the friday we will film these during this monday session. We will be editing whatever we film in this session on the monday also.

Thursday 4th December - During this filming session we will be filming anything that we have left to film. This will all be edited on the same day like the other footage.

Friday 5th December - Wednesday 10th December - This is the time we have allocated for re-filming shots that may not work or may not be up to the standard we are aiming for. All editing will take place during this 5 day period and we will continue to tweak our work up until our final cut deadline, Friday 12th December.

Filming & Editing Update (21st November)

Due to continued technical difficulties regarding my laptop, up until today we have been unable to edit any of our footage.

However, I now have a laptop on loan and therefore from today we will begin editing our backlog of footage.

Hopefully by the 26th we will be back on track with our production schedule and therefore we will be able to continue at a steady but hard-working pace.

Filming & Editing Update (7th November)

Filming

Today we managed to film the majority of the missing shots from the School Visit scene. We experimented with different shot angles and also incorporated a new storyline idea (even though it is only a very small addition). We have more shots to film for this scene still but we ran out of time today and therefore will have to resume filming this scene another day - hopefully if we stay on track it will be the 14th of November.

Editing

Due to the fact that my laptop is now back form repairs, we were able to resume editing the footage that we had filmed over the non-laptop period. We have edited most of the missing shots into the School Visit scene and, for the purpose of tracking our progress and keeping track of where we are and what we have got left to film, we have uploaded the scene as it stands so far below. (The moments where there is silence is where the Voice of God will speak over the top).

Filming & Editing Update (29th October)

Although we were not able to get anything filmed over half term due to medical circumstances, we were able to plan a few of the scenes in more detail and also discussed how we could draw the humour a bit more.

We plan to film the missing parts of the School Visit scene on the 7th of November. Although this is weeks after we intended to do this as stated on our production schedule, we did have set backs along the way however we now feel that we are back on track and can begin producing more material of the same high quality.

Our Target Audience

Our documentary is aimed at teenagers and young adults between the ages of16 and 28. this is because our documentary is quite light-hearted and comical and therefore would possibly not be as widely enjoyed by an older demographic.

It is targeted at both genders because we feel that it is not feminine nor masculine; it is simply about one boy's ridiculously sarcastic rise to fame and therefore we would like to class it as 'unisex' if anything.

We think that our documentary would be appealing to a wide range of people because we consider it to be light-hearted and quite easy to watch. The documentary is not targeted at one single social grade, but many. We have decided that our target audience would be between the grades of D (semi/unskilled manual workers) and B (intermediate managerial, administrative or professional people) and this is because the documentary does not have any factual input, and therefore anyone can watch it and understand it, and hopefully enjoy it.

The documentary is targeted at all different ethnicities as although different cultures have different humours, we think the subtle humour within our production will make almost anyone crack a smile at the very least.

Our documentary, as stated above, reaches out to a very wide range of difference people, however if we had to place the average viewer into a social group, the group we would choose would be the everyday man. This is because, although there are people in the socially lower groups and also in the socially higher groups who we feel would enjoy our documentary, if we had to consider the average viewer, it would be someone who stays in on Friday nights, watches X Factor and watches TV in the evenings. We think the average viewer would be quite family orientated and this is because the light-hearted nature of our documentary means that it can be viewed by children (from the ages of about 9) as well as 16 to 28 year olds. We imagine that the average viewer also likes a good laugh, hence why he/she is watching the documentary in the first place.

As far as the psychodynamics of our documentary are concerned, we found it quite difficult to decide which of them would be the most appropriate. In the end we decided that our target audience would be spectators, and this is because, due to the fact that it is not a serious documentary, the likelihood of someone writing a serious review of it or buying Official Alex Curtis merchandise is almost non-existent. We felt that spectator would be the most appropriate psychodynamic for our documentary because all this involves is watching the documentary and enjoying it, and maybe Googling it afterwards to see who made it etc.

It was quite difficult to determine what our target audience would actually look like, because it is such a wide range of people. However, after much deliberation, we came up with 3 potential outfits for the what we view as the 'average viewer's look'.