Evaluation

Evaluation

I’m certain that the pre-production work that me and my group did on this project helped make our documentary a successful piece of work. Without the planning, research and thought out ideas we wouldn’t have had the time or the resources to get to all the places we did and still manage to get footage of a high quality.

Each different aspect of the pre-production aided the project in a different way for example the research we did at the very start of the project gave us a good better idea of the types of things artists and lovers of graffiti look for when they see a good graffiti documentary and with this information we were able to add these types of things into the documentary.

The script we created helped us during the interviewing stage of our filming as the members of crew that had to interview random pedestrians had a good starting point as far as the discussion went. If we hadn’t written out a script then it’s likely that our crew members would have been stood still thinking up questions while the interviewees stood their looking unimpressed.

The budget sheet we wrote up helped us work out the total cost of everything we would need to create our documentary, although members of crew paid for themselves when it came to any costs it was still good to have written down and planned out because it took away the stress of worrying about money and how much we were going to have to spend on different things.

The materials sheet was also helpful because it meant that we could look at it at the very start and think right what do we need and what do we need it for, having all the materials we needed on a simple list made everything run smoother although it seems like a small part of pre-production I personally feel like it was one of the most helpful and important bits that we had to do.

The storyboards were massively helpful as well because we were able to look at the storyboards we had drawn up and were able to say this is the next thing we need to film and we need to film it in this way , as opposed to running around trying to think of the best way to film and the best order to put things in its already written out and planned.

The synopsis is something helpful to refer back to during filming as it reminds you of the nature of the documentary and the themes that are supposed to be followed throughout , it helps you stick to one style or working as opposed to drifting between different ways and styles of working.

I’m happy with our nine minute documentary and now having completed it I can appreciate how helpful all the pre-production even though at the time it can seem tedious it can be one of the main reasons a piece of work is as good as it is.