Alternative Documentary

As we have documented our film process, we have been discussing our seperate edits.

Here is my version of the documentary.



The decision not to show this doc in class for the final pitch was down to Harry and Amy, who we allowed to make the decision as they would not be biased towards any of our edits.

My understanding is that, they thought that the film was not in keeping with the brief and wasnt as Cinema Verite as Dans. I could see more elements of cinema verite in Dans work, but thought mine was technically & aesthetically better.

It was difficult to seperate which one would get us a better mark, content wise. The decision was made that Dans documentary showed more of the content they wanted to see.

I was disheartened by the decision initially because I had put a lot of work into the concept that I had came up with. However, this was a group project and I cant take plaudits as we all put a lot of effort into each production. I had spent hours in the edit suite making sure it looked professional, so I was sad it didnt get chosen given the good reaction it had got in my editing class but you have to take these things in your stride. Also, I was happy with the passion on display from the other group members as they really "sunk their teeth" into my idea, and it couldnt have been achieved without them.

To conclude, I feel both documentaries get the point across, but in different ways. Ideally, I feel we should of got an outsiders view on which documentary was to be chosen, but we had decided early on in the process that the decision should be from Amy and Harry who didnt edit the piece and they seemed to be clued up on what the teacher would be looking for. I think Dan has produced a great documentary and I hope he posts it on here aswell.