Documentary Music

Indigo Palace- Chips and Rose Freestyle

Indigo Palace-Nicey Ting




JP and  Luke Warm- Supreme ft Dee93






Indigo Palace- Southside ft Proton 

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Voiceover Problems

The voiceover to my documentary was the last thing I did in terms of production. I wanted to gain a clear narrative before I recorded the voiceover so that the voiceovers matched the footage. Everything went well when it came to recording the voiceover, and helped the documentary look 10 times more professional. However here were a few minor issues with some of the recording. For example, the very first piece of voiceover, the recording system lagged, meaning that the phrase "Denmark Street" was cut off. Another issue was the grammar/ use of words int he voiceover, as some of it didn't make sense e.g, using the word corporation rather than industry or saying seeked instead of sought/searched. Due to these minor issues, I decided to rerecord it.

Rerecording it was all fine and it edited conveniently into the documentary and made it sound more professional. During editing everything was working well, therefore I decided to export into order to post it on Youtube to gain feedback. However , once exported, I noticed that the the newly recorded voiceovers fall silent once exported and they seem to be missing. Due the voiceovers being editing in on the last day of term, I did not have enough time to checked this problem and fix it, meaning that no editing equipment would be available if I were to rerecord it.

I am not 100% sure why the voiceovers have disappeared, but I think that it is something to do with the equipment used. The first time round, I used a professional microphone used for radio recording , therefore when I saved and exported these recording, they automatically exported to the right format. This differs to the second time round, as I didn't have my recording equipment, so I used my phone to record them. The sound quality isn't any less however because it is just a phone, the export setting don't match up with Final Cut Express, which Im guessing is why they go silent.

This is very inconvenient as it now means I ahem to wait until we get back to school to completely finish the post production. Hopefully when I get back, I will be able to gain help and understand why the sound has gone and perhaps find a different way of exporting it in order for the sound to remain.

Ancillary Task: Newspaper/Magazine Article: 2nd Draft

My first draft of a newspaper/magazine article wasn't conventional of magazines at all. There were many feature missing from it that did not make it look like magazine article. initial I did it on word/pages, however that acted as a huge restriction for so many things, therefore i decided to change the software and make it on Pixelmator. On Pixelmatr, it allows me to change the font size accordingly without moving every other bit of text. It also allowed me to add the columns in a more stylish and organised way. Pixlemator also provided easier ways of adding a number of features conventional to newspaper articles. 

1.) The frist change I made to my article is having the opening paragraph in bold and the first letter much bigger than the rest. This acted as a discourse marker, and I added it to make sure the audience knew where to start reading from. This is conventional to magazine articles and immediately indicated that the paragraph in bold is a brief description of what the article is about. 

2.) The second change I made to my article is the inclusion of page numbers. This article is intended towards going into a TV listings guide, therefore it would be conventional of a magazine to have page numbers. This would be helpful in a real magazine as if the article features on the front cover, it could provide details as to where the audience could find the article to read it. Along with the page numbers, I added a line int he middle of the article to indicate the two different pages as this would be a double page spread. 

3.) The third change I made to my article is that I added  captions underneath the pictures. The pictures on their own were just there to add a multi modal element, however I realised that the pictures on their own didn't make any sense in correlation to the rest of the article and they just sat in the middle of the page randomly. Therefore, adding the caption provided further information as to why they are there and what correlation they had to the article. Captions underneath picture yet anther conventional feature of newspaper articles. 

4.) A further change made to the article was the inclusion of more writing. Previously, the article ended with just the end of the interview and then information about where the full interview could be seen. However I changed this as it is uncommon in articles for it to just end mid interview without any further information. I also moved the information about where the documentary can be seen from the beginning to the end of the article, as it would ensure that the dates and times for the documentary would stick in their heads. Seeing the dates at the end makes it easy for them to navigate it and gain key details. Another thing added was a paragraph from the me as the editor on the documentary and my opinion on it. By including this, it provides a trustworthy judgement on the documentary and would hopefully encourage the audience to watch it. 

5.) I also added the website of the magazine in my article. I added this because it is common in this modern day for people to prefer to ready articles on their mobiles and laptops rather than on paper, therefore providing the website could potentially lead to more people reading it online. Online copies of articles are considered more convent for many people these days, so it provides more media platforms for everyone. 

6.) The final thing I added to my article is the subheading. I added this firstly because it is conventional of magazine articles, and secondly because it adds to the heading. The heading is a quote praising Denmark Street, however i didn't want the audience to mistake it for the name of the documentary and be mislead, therefore the subheading adds further brief information about the documentary. 

Ancillary Task: Documentary Advert: 3rd Draft

1.) The first change I made to my previous draft is the underlining of the quote for the advert. I did this because I felt that the quote looked like th title itself The actually is A Week With Indigo Palace, therefore I didn't want the audience to think that it was Here's To Denmark Street. Getting rid of the underline will make it more clear that it is just a side remark rather than the main heading. 

2.) The second change I made to my advert is making the actual title bigger and underlined. I was made aware that in the previous advert, it was quite clear what the title was, therefore I made it extra clear what the name of the documentary was. By making it bigger than any other text on the screen and underlines, it makes it much more obvious that the title is A Week With Indigo Palace. 

3.) Another small but important change made was the date and time given for when he documentary. Previously the time and date did not match with the magazine article I had made, therefore although ti was a subtle difference, it would have made a difference. Now that both the time and date match, it makes it much more realistic and conventional of marketing campaigns. 

4.) In my draft before, my advert said "Britain's uprising music groups". I changed this to upcoming groups as i feel it made more sense rather than uprising. Uprising connoted a more serious issue, however I wanted to present their growth in a more positive manner, hence why I changed it to upcoming. Overall, upcoming makes much more sense than uprising and fits better within the documentary.

5.) The final change I made to my advert is the 'also available on BBC iPlayer" feature. Previous the "available on" was in much bigger font and was underline, however now i've got rid of them both and made it a lot less prominent. Before, that part of the documentary drew too much attention, and I wanted the audience to understand that it can be caught on catch up, rather than just exclusive to BBC iPlayer.

Using Pixemator

For my two ancillary tasks, which included making a magazine article for my documentary and making an advert, I used a software called Pixlemator. This is essentially a photo editing software that allows you to combine various pictures and effect together to produce one whole picture. On this software, you can filter, text, play around with the tones of the pictures, increase and decrease the opacity of certainn things, crop, brighten and darken things, and do many more manipulations. 

This particular section allows you to transform the picture in many different ways. There are tools that allow you to cut certain sections out, or get rid of parts of the picture that aren't needed. You can also lighten/ highlight certain features t help them stand out in comparison to the rest of the picture, in order to draw the audiences attention to particular areas. This tool bar was help as it assisted in ensuring certain elements go my audience stood out more than other, amdreally helped by advert seem more engaging. Naturally, audiences will trust their focus onto an area that is lighter, therefore by highlighted things, it helped to make the important parts easier to navigate. 

This section of Pixelmatr is the area that shows what layer you are on. The more photos you add, essentially the more layers you will end up with.  This particular tool was helpful as it allows you to use different affect on certain pictures without affecting the other pictures. For instance, if you wanted to change the opacity for a top layer so that the picture underneath is visible, this would be help as it would enable you to do this on just one part of the entire project. For me, this tool was helpful because it could let e move text around to where I wanted them in relation to other pictures.







Text was vital to both my advert and newspaper article. For both of them, the text was the main bit that needed to be seen in order to understand the details such as times and dates. This tool being available was beneficial to my advert production and it allowed me to play around with various elements such as font, thickness, colour and size. Size really mattered in my advert as it highlighted the name of my documentary. The title was much bigger than any other text on the page, and other elements such as colour and underling helped identify the dates and times.




One final tool that was handy on Pixelmator was the effects tool. To use this, you had to click on a particular layer and picture/ text, and then apply the filter. From here you could then interpret the strength of the filter and also change how the effects are shaped. I used this with the the BBC logo that is in my bottom right of my advert. I put a light leak filter on it to help make the logo look a bit more alternative to reflect the vibrancy of the music documentary. By doing this, it illustrates to the audience that this isn't a conventional "dull" documentary that BBC show, rather that it is a interesting creative one that is not stereotypical.

Documentary Length Problem

Over the past couple of months, I have been working on my documentary, baring in mind that it must accumulate put o around 5 minutes. During majority of the the filming an editing process, I was wasn't entirely sure how I would be able to make it long enough, however my problem now is that my documentary is too long. My documentary is currently 6 just over 6 minutes long, with all the scene I wanted included. I have edited my documentary and I'd consider it 95% done, and now all I need to do is edit the little features that will make the quality 100%. This final 5% that needs to be edited now includes trimming down little scenes as much as possible in order to allow it to meet the 5 minute limit.

One scene I significantly cut down is the interview with Jocelin Francis. This interview is essentially the longest scene out of the whole documentary, as it lasts around two and a half/ three minutes. This scene was quite clearly the one that took up the most space, therefore I decided to start with this scene and cut it it down significantly. One particular thing that I got rid of is a section where he speaks about how much he spent on the studio. During this, he took a pause for around 4-6 seconds and there wasn't any audio worth keeping in. By doing this, it got rid of unnecessary time that wasted. I continued to do this throughout the rest of the documentary by simply cutting little 2/3 second spells out in order to cut it dramatically overall.

Another scene I cut is the very first scene. This shows the group in the studio at Relentless after their Fivers video shoot, and it is them free styling over some music in the background. This clip lasts around 25-30 seconds, before the documentary even starts. Although this scene is very influencial and needed, it is a very long scene considering that it is the first one and the audience have absolutely no context as to what they're watching. Because of this idea, I decided to to cut it in half so that it lasts for only around 10/15 seconds, and the audience don't get confused. By only having this for about 15 seconds, it chucks the audience in to the action straight away without them becoming too confused.

One final thing that I did in order to cut the time down is the put all the little gaps I had together. By doing this, it managed to get rid of around 10 seconds worth of empty footage, and allows it to final come under 6 minutes. This was also done to finally give the documentary clear arrive and allowed the whole thing to make sense altogether.

There are still tiny little adjustments that need to be made, however there is one less problem now as the documentary is now under 6 minutes and is approximately five and a half minutes. Little sound and visual features need to be edited but they can be sorted at a later date.

Ancillary Task: Documentary Advert: 2nd Draft