Documentary Class

This semester I took a Documentary class. As a class we choose a subject to do a documentary on. The class decided to focus on a local man who makes violins for a living. He happens to be the father-in-law of our classmate.

At the beginning of the semester we choose different jobs with producing this film. I was chosen to be in charge of graphics. The fall semester I was also given this job and my professor liked what I had put together. I am basically the person in charge of making the credits for the end of the film. I also took some photos during the film shoots and came up with some neat shots. I don't have a neat camera yet, so I just used my iphone and an application called Camera+ to edit the photos.

I have only used Adobe After Effects once. Fall semester I had never used a Mac or After Effects and I had a crash course in using both. Four hours later along with many tears I was able to start the project. This semester I had purchased a MacBook Air and am taking a post-production course that uses Adobe Premiere. I still had to do research to come up with decent looking credits. My end goal was to come out with a professional looking credits. People besides my class are going to be seeing this and I don't want to ruin the film with some crappy looking credits.

I found a great tutorial on youtube and it helped a lot.http://bit.ly/1DQB9yN It is simple and easy to understand. One part I did have one problem that actually kept me up for two nights until 3 am. I couldn't figure out what I was doing and I asked one of my classmates for help. He figured out that we were forgetting a small but very important step, to parent a node with the camera. After that it went okay, just a few minor adjustments and I had them done in no time. The film isn't edited down to a final cut yet, but they have credits

I love finding out how to do things on my own. Joy, stress, anger are some of the emotions I feel when doing a project like this. It is also fun to see the whole of all our jobs. I hope people will enjoy the film and the credits will compliment the finished film.

Documentary Pre-production notes for all day shoot

The Devil & The Angel PP notes all day shoot

I put together a food order for the Silver Reef Cafe for the all day shoot as well.

Silver Reef Cafe order for crew