Newspaper Advert Photoshoot

I took various photos in a few different positions which showcase a few different ties. We made sure to use some of the most colourful ties for the photoshoot so that they became very obvious in comparison with his dark shirt. I used this room because it was the best place I had access to where the background could be edited out with photoshop. I also used a soft box light during the photoshoot to increase the lighting and quality. I'm going to use these to create a few draft adverts and then I may get some feedback as to which one is the best in relation to what the documentary is about. 

Photoshoot Lighting

I used softbox lighting to make the shadows from the background less apparent. This would make it easier for me to remove the background in photoshop. It also makes the quality of the image better. 

Small Group Feedback

I've shown my first draft to a small group of people and they all seem to have few problems with it. The main problem seems to be the lack of different locations and takes being too long. I was already going to fix this so I was expecting this and am going to film in more locations this weekend. I'm going to show the draft to more people to get feedback because there may be someone more critical and helpful.

Final Filming Plan

This weekend I intend to complete filming for Sam Tied Down. I am going to add the initial intended introduction where he starts outside his mum's house. I'm also going to film an interview where I'll talk about my feelings about the situation after he says 'My brother films it all.' I'm also going to add some more filler footage to run over the main footage. I may also include a confrontation scene where Sam will meet his 'rival' and he'll be really nice. I may not include this scene due to how long the project already is in the first draft. I may cut out some already existing footage or make a few drafts and show them to an audience to see which one is preferred. I'm also going to do the photoshoot for the newspaper advert so that I can create a few different newspaper adverts and see which one is the favourite.

Sam Tied Down Draft 1

I have created a first draft with the footage I have filmed. I am feeling doubtful about a couple of scenes such as the overlays and the comments scene. I feel like the overlays get too loud at points and take away from Sam's dialogue but it's traditional for documentaries. I feel like the comments scene isn't traditional for a documentary. I will change the scenes depending on feedback when I show it to an audience. This has only been able to be uploaded to google drive in 360p so I'm going to upload it to a different website such as youtube or vimeo in 1080p.

Colour Match

Due to the different angles some of the scenes looked drastically different

Below is a front angle scene which I wanted to match colours with. 

In the screencap below I used colour match tool for the side angle scene. I matched it with the scene above and it has made the scene look more similar and more colourful.

Colour Balancing

The image below is some footage before I used the Final cut feature of colour balance.

This image is after I've applied a colour balance. I prefer this because it seems less gloomy and more bright.