Experimentation with Livetype

Here is some experimentation we used with typography on the typing program known as livetype. This experimenting helped us to decide on what types of fonts would be most effective in our documentary- I stated that if we were to use fonts, they would have to be fairly basic and subtle because we aren't using it for specific dramatic effect. We want the font to reflect the rawness, and natural feel of the documentary, and so we want the editing and font to stay fairly simple, and this means we aren't going over the top with the editing.
As for the words used in this experiment, we are just using our names because we have yet to find a title for the documentary. We know the title is going to be a question that provokes the thinking of the audience. This will help to reach our preferred target audience, because the audience anticipation and expectations will be our documentary typography to be fairly simplistic.

Use of Software

Soundtrack/sound programme: For this, we are going to choose to use Soundtrack Pro, which we can use to put our chosen soundtrack, from a royalty free site such as Purple Planet, into the background. I have chosen to use this software because it is highly effective when being able to adjust the different levels of volume throughout the entire short documentary. This software also doesn't compress the file used, meaning that we can keep the file to the best quality possible, ensuring the best quality documentary possible. I have used this fairly briefly through the use of mr AS media short film, and also the short documentary we made at the start of A2 media, which can be found previously in my blog.

Editing Program: The program I will be using to edit my documentary will be Premiere Pro. I have used this program a couple of times previously, and have found it effective on a variety of levels- it is good for making sure everything goes together smoothly. It is a fairly easy program to use, and it is easy to use on a basis of putting the shots from the camera to the memory stick onto the mac, which we use for editing.

Credits Program: The program I am going to use for the typography will be LiveType. I have chosen to use this because I have used it a lot previously, and find it very reliable and fairly easy to use. I am going to use it for the titles that will be used at the start for introductions, at the end of the documentary for credits, and to illustrate whom certain individuals are within the documentary such as the interviewees.

Planning and Filming- Communuication

In order to communicate about filming outside of our media classes, me and my teammate Sophie have used both iMessage and messenger on Facebook in order to communicate about a range of topics, including when we are going to film and what parts we plan on filming. These methods of digital communication are key when making something like a documentary, because it allows us to let each other know when it is appropriate to film and when we have to cancel last minute due to circumstances such as weather or other plans. Due to our busy schedules, we decided this would be the best method of communication as we live in different areas. Below is an example of what a messenger chat on Facebook looks like, in order to show what we have used to communicate when making our product. 

Script

There is not going to be a script of our documentary apart from the questions we have already planned to ask the interviewees. This is because the main point of a documentary is for it to be spontaneous conversation and finding out information we didn't previously obtain. Our questions that we have asked in the documentary have been put earlier in our blog.
Scripts are much more helpful for people making things such as a short film or trailer, because they help to organise for what they want to include in the film, and, having made a short film for AS media, I understand how scripts can be very useful.

Distribution

The distribution of our documentary, if it were ever to be shown on anywhere other than YouTube or our media A2 blogs, would probably be from a media company such as the BBC, because they are renowned around the world for using documentaries about many different things. This would be to a large tent pole audience, because documentaries of a different sort of direction have a very large range of audiences- from young people wanting to find out more about the world, to elder people who are interested to find out things such as about prison documentaries from Louis Theroux as a presenter.
This distribution could be digital, so shown online. Websites such as the company that makes things for Film 4 has a section of the website where you can watch short documentaries that have been made by a variety of people, and has a wide range of content. This can also be done on YouTube, by channels such as vsauce, which provides documentaries with a wide range of topic choices.
Following are photos of the sorts of documentaries that we would be interested in showing our film to and seeing whether or not they would like to distribute it.

Sound

For the sound for our documentary, we are going to have various components that all account for different parts of the documentary. This will consist of non-diegetic sounds, such as voiceovers and incidental music, and diegetic music, which will consist of the voices recorded when the interviews take place, and the sounds in the background of the shots.
We have decided we are going to use the non-diegetic incidental music as music from a royalty free website, because this will save a lot of time when it comes to trying to make our own music. We can then use this time saved towards the actual making and editing of our documentary. Here is a screenshot of the website we will use. I know this is a website that I can trust and is legitimate and legal because I used it whilst in the making of my AS short film last year. You download the music onto your laptop or computer and then use it in the background of your product, such as a short film or documentary. This is a part of the editing process, which will happen over the next few weeks.