BENEATH THE SKIN FINISHED PIECE

With all of our hard work and dedication, the film is now finished. I couldn't be more pleased with it. here is the link below:

On Tuesday the 13th we had to show our film on the big screen in the cinema room, and present a presentation to our peers, Anne and Rosie. Throughout the process of this documentary we have had many issues, concerning the group and the film itself, editing wasn't as smooth as I would have liked it, but it was a big learning curve. We got peer feedback which was very rewarding to hear, and feedback from Anne and Rosie, it was so nice to hear they enjoyed it, and gave us some tips to improve in the future which will be useful for my next project. 

Here are some screenshots from our presentation:

For secondary research we found documentaries that we took inspiration from, some had nothing to do with tattoos, we just enjoyed their interview style, and the others were to do with tattoos. We chose them because of how they set their shots up, the lighting, framing and depth of field. 

To get real knowledge on the tattoo community and the people involved in it, we decided to research facts and figures surrounding tattoos. As our film only included an age bracket between 18-27 we wanted to research the bigger picture, the population, age and gender. 

To support the questions we asked our interviewees, we researched why people got tattoos, weather they regretted it, the percentage of people who get them lasered off. We got some interesting results and statistics which related to our questions when we watched through them again. 

When starting this film we knew communication would be key to the success of this film running smoothly. The producer Nina posted a status to ask and welcome people to share their stories about their tattoos and to be filmed. We got an incredible response of over 30 people, however on the day lots dropped out so we interviewed 16 people. Nina then produced a schedule for the Monday we were filming, of peoples times and their names. As a group we also had a group chat we could communicate with each other in, though not always effective in excellent communication all the time I feel we still all pulled together to create a great film. 

Like with every film you have to change things as you go along if they don't work out. This goes for the structure of our documentary. We initially created an intro, then stuck together all the clips we thought we interesting and important. After this we had a tutorial with Anne, in which we discussed the narrative and story arc of the film, she gave us some tips and advice. We took these on board and got rid of lots of irrelevant things, created a narrative in which it had different sections that people talked about certain things in. After cutting this all together and then watching, we all agreed it looked a lot better. 

For this film we produced a production pack which included transcripts from all interviews, shot lists, schedules,risk assessments, call sheets and story boards. This was key to our film and it's success so we could have things to reference too if we were unsure of what to film or edit, we could look at the shot lists and transcripts. 

I hope you enjoy. Thank you. 

BENEATH THE SKIN POST PRODUCTION

We are now in the post production stages of our documentary, and there has been a lot of progress. We have sorted and agreed on the intro and outro. We have selected some music we want as the underscore, so I am able to edit to the beat effectively. As a group, we had a meeting with Anne yesterday so she could see the progress we had made, she enjoyed it and gave us some feedback to make it better, run more smooth and more enjoyable for the audience. So I created a new sequence and started to edit together a structure of what Anne wanted. I feel even in a day we have made a lot of progress.There has been a few editing difficulties but we are getting through it ready for the deadline Monday, and screening on Tuesday in the cinema.Here is a picture of the editing process so far.

Post Production Progress

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BENEATH THE SKIN

We have now shot the tattoo parlour and our interviewers and it was a really good day. In preparation for this shoot, we created a list of questions we wanted the contributors to answer. The array of answers was overwhelming, we came away from the shoot with a lot more excellent content than I had imaged for this day. Some stories behind the tattoos were, funny, moving or just beautiful. It was a real eye opener because, so often you see a tattoo and think it just look nice or is interesting, but sometimes the meaning is so different to what you had expected or the placement, and colour. I feel it was educational for my group to broaden our minds. I look forward to editing together a very interesting documentary. Here are some photos from the shoot.

Clara

Paige

Jordan

I hope you enjoy. Thank you.

DOCUMENTARY TATTOO COMMUNITY

Within my group we have decided to go with the idea of tattoos as a community, we did also have another avenue of community we could explore which was nude models, but decided we wanted it to be a visually diverse film so chose tattoos.

We had a meeting with Anne to discuss our progress, and I have inserted a picture of notes Nina took whilst in the meeting. In the meeting we talked with Anne what we wanted to achieve visually, finding the stories behind the tattoos and making it personal to engage the audience. We also wanted to include a running theme of community, highlighting the important and interesting things people had to say on being a part of the community.

After the meeting had finished, we decided to get in to contact people we knew with tattoos, and we also wrote on the UCA Fresher's page to ask if anyone would be so kind as to help be a contributor in our documentary. Within the next few days we had had so many replies of interest. Nina was the producer for our group, so she kindly put together a schedule of people we would see the following Monday to record their stories.

However, my partner was having a tattoo done near by on the Saturday, so we decided we would film it for visual cut aways and allow the audience to explore and observe the process. We had no time to waste so managed to book the equipment out on the Friday with a completed risk assessment and call sheets and we were ready to go, with my partner and tattoo artist soon to fill out release forms.
Here are some images from the shoot

White Balance

Let's Shoot

I hope you enjoy. Thank you.