I was given a photo album from my grandad of when he was younger which fits into what he is talking about perfectly, and once they were scanned I was putting them over my grandad’s interview along with the other shots I got.

I tried to scan the pictures on the college scanners earlier today but they didn’t work and they were all in black and white like this.

I then looked on my phone to see if there was an app where I can scan photos and I got one called Photomyne and it was straight forward to use, I just had to take photos of what ones I wanted and it would cut them out and they are all in colour as well.

 

I saved these images on to my laptop and put them onto my pendrive and onto Final Cut Pro. These images will be edited into my timeline tomorrow to continue with my edit.

When I was editing my production today,  I was putting in the rest of the cutaways and I noticed for my grandads part I hadn’t scanned the pictures from the photo album they gave me to use over his part about when he was growing up. I also needed to go out and get some more shots of the houses and of the pubs which he use to go to when he was younger. I will have to go out and get some more shots of around Anfield to use over his interview.

I have also realised I didn’t have enough cutaways for the football part to put over the voiceover. I need to go out and get some more shots of Anfield stadium and the Hillsborough memorial as it is mentioned in the voiceover.

I will book out a camera and tripod today and go out to get some footage of these and put them into my edit when I edit again tomorrow.

I have had a few problems and changes to my audience and documentary theories from the beginning of my project.

A problem I have had with my documentary theory that has changed since my Proposal was the Narrative Structure of my documentary. The narrative of my documentary was linear which goes from one interview to another without the same interviewee appearing on screen again apart from Frank who I have summarising the whole documentary at the end, I made this decision once I had all my shots and interviews done, this was so I could write the Voiceover Script. It starts with an introduction and ends with Frank finishing it off and his interview is the only one that is seen again on screen. Most documentaries don’t use the linear structure and usually go back to most interviewees throughout the films but mine doesn’t so it doesn’t meet all of the documentary conventions.

Another problem I have encountered was that my documentary was all positive and made the city only look good rather than having the negative sides of the city and there was no debates. In my proposal, I spoke about how the documentary will be two sides and I will talk about the culture and the development of the city but also discuss homelessness in the city. My documentary didn’t end up being a balanced documentary and it begins to look bias as it only has a positive outlook on the city. My idea changed as I began to do more research into the culture of the city and the history and after doing my Focus Group with Frank.

I didn’t do any vox pops to put into my documentary because I didn’t need any comments or opinions on anything because that’s what I had my interviews and voiceover for. A lot of Expository Documentaries use this technique in them but I only did Vox pops – primary research because I needed to use other sources to get more feedback on my audience. I am once again not using these documentary techniques, in my Pitch, I spoke about how I would use vox pops in my production so I am getting a wide range of opinions but that was when my documentary was balanced and I had different ideas.

After watching the interview I did with my grandad, I realised that he looks at the other side of the camera. This was due to the camera being on the left side and him having to look to the right because of the space in the house and couldn’t go as planned. I should’ve gone and practised before I filmed the real thing and sorted it out. This room was the best place to film as well because of the lighting and it being the most quiet.

I have decided to make it as a voiceover when it comes to his part rather than have him in the shot and have to film it again. I will have archive footage over what he is saying and the shots I have already filmed of Anfield. I am doing this so I still have his part in the product rather than cutting his part out completely. I am not cutting the interview out because I want the audience to know what it was like back in the 1950s-1970s by someone who experienced it rather than hearing it from a voiceover that has read it from a script that hasn’t actually experienced.

If I don’t have enough cutaways when it comes to editing, I will have to edit the shot so it goes fits within the conventions of a direct interview.

I will get images of my grandad from when he was younger growing up in Anfield and his school, class and where he lived so I don’t run out of things to have over the whole voiceover. I will also use archive of Anfield years ago I will have to get online and I will cut down his interview and make it as short as I can and have the most relevant points he says in it.

I have listened to the interview and the audio is loud and clear so it would still be perfect for me to use as a voiceover.

I will have his interview after Frank has finished speaking and I will have it right after Frank has spoken about the Anfield project that took place in 2008 so it moves slowly to my grandad speaking.

 

Today, I was meant to go on a bus tour around Liverpool looking at all the tourist attractions with a host who gives information on them. As I got into town, the host had cancelled the tour due to the weather… it will be rescheduled for another Thursday and will keep me posted. I will be filming the most important things throughout the tour.